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You feel control over your life, your decisions and the direction of where things are headed. There's nothing quite like it. So, how do you finally overcome shyness and start living a life free from social paranoia? It has to start from the inside. Once you can correct your way of thinking in social scenarios, you'll know how to navigate through the fear and let your true personality shine through with pride.

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Overcoming Social Anxiety - Marielle Cornes - [email protected]. Through ten years of clinical research with the University of Oxford, she helped to develop and evaluate cognitive behavioural treatments for social phobia and for generalized anxiety disorder.

She has a special clinical interest in the use of CBT during recovery from traumatic experiences in childhood and runs training workshops on a wide variety of topics relevant to practitioners of CBT, in the UK and other countries. She is particularly interested in making the products of research available to the general public and, in addition to being the author of Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness, she is co-author of Manage Your Mind: The Mental Fitness Guide and of Psychology: A Very Short Introduction.

His original book on bulimia nervosa and binge-eating founded the series in and continues to help many thousands of people in the USA, the UK and Europe. The aim of the series is to help people with a wide range of common problems and disorders to take control of their own recovery programme using the latest techniques of cognitive behavioural therapy.

When we describe ourselves in this way the prediction can be a self-fulfilling prophecy: believing ourselves to be shy we behave in ways that confirm our view of ourselves. Theres not much brain space left over for picking up other kinds of information. You will be more likely to build your confidence if you can keep going despite these normal ups and downs.

More methods are also described inthe next sections on doing things differently and building up confidence. These are not like thoughts that run through your mind at the time, but they are still thought processes. Social Anxiety is an anxiety disorder where we believe that others will judge us negatively "th ey'll think I'm an idiot" etc , and it is therefore experienced most acutely in situations when we are with other people.

Our attention is very self-focussed - on what we must look like to others, what they might be thinking of us, trying to interpret every glance or other unspoken gesture or expression and what it might say about what they think about us. We become 'mind-readers' and imagine that we can correctly assume what others are thinking about us.

Because we don't want to experience this anxiety and it's normal body response , we tend to avoid situations when it might happen, and therefore are unlikely to learn that it could be ok and we could actually enjoy ourselves. If we do have to go, then we use 'safety behaviours' to help us cope, such as trying not to be noticed, avoiding eye contact, holding or fiddling with something, trying to hide e. This all increases the self-focus. Or impressions? Changing thinkingpatterns is explained inSection3.

The main aim of this book is to explain how to overcome this anxiety. When this happens, keep asking yourself the key questions. Show related SlideShares at end?

How to change the way you behave. They come and go quickly, and may also have become automatic. It will probably get better in the end. For another few minutes try to focus your attention exclusively outside shynss Use the Thoughts and Reflections section at the back of the workbook to write down anything that has been particularly helpful to you. People could have laughed out loud at my idea.

Choose an activity to do mindfully throughout the day, two or five minutes? The louder ssocial talk the more you think I really dont belong here, and Nothing I could think of to say would interest these people.

The symptoms ofanxietyand panic bythemselves, however seve. To browse Academia. Skip to main content. You're using an out-of-date version of Internet Explorer. By using our site, you agree to our collection of information through the use of cookies.