“ Progressive Muscle Relaxation Even when you feel at ease, you may still experience tightness in your body. People with chronic anxiety… — Heather Moehn Anxiety Copy Share Image
“ Grades Class participation is usually a big part of a final grade, and many people with social anxiety are afraid of… — Heather Moehn Anxiety Copy Share Image
“ Change Your Inaccurate Expectations Many social fears are caused by inaccurate expectations and “catastrophizing.” One way to determine your expectations is… — Heather Moehn Anxiety Copy Share Image
“ Easing Your Mind’s Responses to Anxiety When you are in social situations, your mind might race with negative thoughts about yourself,… — Heather Moehn Anxiety Copy Share Image
“ Loneliness A recent study showed that 13.5 percent of college students are severely lonely. Overall, they felt that they were to… — Heather Moehn College student Copy Share Image
“ Who Suffers? If you have social anxiety, you are not alone. The National Comorbidity Study found social phobia to be the… — Heather Moehn Gender roles Copy Share Image
“Because you are reading this book, you probably know that social anxiety has a large impact on your life. It creates problems… — Heather Moehn Books Copy Share Image
“ Environment The biochemical and genetic explanations for social anxiety are fairly straightforward. However, they don’t explain why one person fears all… — Heather Moehn Anxiety Copy Share Image
“ Ideas for Journal Entries You may find the following ideas useful in beginning your journal or keeping the entries varied. If… — Heather Moehn Art class Copy Share Image
“As we discussed in chapter 2, there are three ways in which anxiety affects people: physically, mentally, and behaviorally. In this section,… — Heather Moehn Anxiety Copy Share Image
“ Generalized Social Anxiety In contrast to people with specific social anxieties, you may be afraid in a wide variety of situations.… — Heather Moehn High school Copy Share Image
“ Sociological Explanations Sociologists theorize that people can live together in peace because of the development of a social hierarchy that ranges… — Heather Moehn Anxiety Copy Share Image
“ Exposure Therapy Exposure therapy, also known as desensitization, works best with very specific anxieties and phobias. For example, Jessica is deathly… — Heather Moehn Anxiety Copy Share Image
“ Modeling Modeling is the process of watching how others act in certain situations, then copying their behavior. For example, if you… — Heather Moehn Best friend Copy Share Image
“ Learning from Incorrect Information The messages that society sends you are not always accurate. Females often hear that they should be… — Heather Moehn Best friend Copy Share Image
“ How Journal Writing Helps Because of your social anxiety, you may be so afraid that any opinions you have are wrong… — Heather Moehn Fear Copy Share Image
“ Paced Breathing People who experience anxiety often breathe improperly. They take shallow breaths from their chests instead of deep breaths from… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image
“ The History of Social Anxiety The fact that some people are shyer than others has been observed since ancient times. However,… — Heather Moehn Asking for help Copy Share Image
“ A Final Word Now that you have become familiar with social anxiety, you know that it is a common problem, especially… — Heather Moehn Daily life Copy Share Image
“ Core Beliefs All of us have core beliefs that influence our behavior and how we feel about ourselves. Often you think… — Heather Moehn Core beliefs Copy Share Image
“ Perfectionism People with social anxiety tend to be perfectionists. A degree of perfectionism is generally seen as a good trait. It… — Heather Moehn Anxiety Copy Share Image
“ Fear of Asking for Help If you have social anxiety, it is probably very difficult to ask a teacher or classmate… — Heather Moehn Anxiety Copy Share Image
“ Avoiding School or Dropping Out Unfortunately, school sometimes becomes so difficult for people with social anxiety that they start avoiding it… — Heather Moehn Difficult time Copy Share Image
“ Choosing Careers Many people with social anxiety do not have the job they would like the most because of fear. They… — Heather Moehn Anxiety Copy Share Image
