Overcoming Social Anxieties

Social anxiety is a clinical disorder identified by the National Institute of Health as a mental health condition. It is a fear of being watched and judged by others that affects work, school, social and day-to-day activities. It makes it hard for individuals to even maintain the basic friendship relationships (National Institute of Health).

Social anxieties can be disabling, even paralytic. It can affect not only social relationships but professional relationships, making it difficult to maintain jobs or to job search. Some individuals will suffer from social anxiety to the point of not being able to even talk to an individual. This anxiety is debilitating. 

Some signs of social anxiety are:

• Physical Symptoms- sweating, blushing, faster heart rate

• Nausea 

• Avoiding others or places

• Fear 

• Self-consciousness

• Avoiding eye contact

But there is hope! You can free yourself from the shackles of social anxiety and have more control by creating a reservoir of useful methods for immediate use in managing social anxieties. Some of these strategies include:

• Mindfulness 

• Meditation 

• Visualization 

• Confidence

• Gratitude 

• Natural remedies 

If you’d like to learn more … You can learn daily strategies, long term solutions, natural remedies, immediate interventions and even learn the pros and cons of medical intervention. https://www.udemy.com/course/overcoming-social-anxieties/?referralCode=FFB7F82B274B8B9D4E00 

You will also learn some daily and immediate interventions to manage social anxieties and look into long-term options including natural remedies, easy to use methods, mindfulness, mediations, gratitude and treatments such as therapy.

Sources:

Course: Overcoming Social Anxieties, https://www.udemy.com/course/overcoming-social-anxieties/?referralCode=FFB7F82B274B8B9D4E00 

National Institute of Health. (2021). Social Anxiety Disorder: More Than Just Shyness. Retrieved from: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/social-anxiety-disorder-more-than-just-shyness/index.shtml 

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By Tracy Atkinson

Tracy Atkinson, mother of six, lives in the Southwest with her husband and spirited long-haired miniature dachshunds. She is a teacher, having taught elementary school to higher education, holding degrees in elementary education and an EDS in higher education. Her passion is researching, studying and investigating the attributes related to self-directed learners and learning styles. She has published several titles, including MBTI Learning Styles: A Practical Approach, The Art of Learning Journals, Calais: The Annals of the Hidden, Lemosa: The Annals of the Hidden, Book Two, Rachel’s 8 and Securing Your Tent. She is currently working on a non-fiction text exploring the attributes of self-directed learners: The Five Characteristics of Self-directed Learners.