Narcissistic Thinking in an Avoidance Vortex

“Tip of The Month Club” www.socialanxiety.com Clinical Insight After 35-Plus Years Treating Avoidant Personality Disorder: Social Anxiety Articles   I believe I have interacted with more individuals with avoidant personalities than anyone in the world! I’m neither bragging nor complaining. It’s just a fact: It’s my job. As a psychotherapist with more than 35 years’ […]

How to Control Social Anxiety Panic Attacks

Read about adrenaline control techniques that will help you control the fight or fight response and panic attacks. Combat social anxiety scenarios that activate fight or flight include public speaking, fear of being noticeably nervous as in blushing, sweating, or voice stammering, interacting with an authority figure, socializing in general and so on.

Social Anxiety vs Aspergers

Asperger syndrome is an autism spectrum disorder that is characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction. Restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior and interests, which are often abnormally intense and focused, are present. Reading and understanding social cues is usually a challenge for the Asperger individual. A failure to develop relationships, a lack of social […]

Selective Mutism Creates Dating Challenge for High Functioning Female with Social Anxiety

“Debbie” is a 24 year old athletic blond with hundreds of young men pursuing her on a dating site. She is currently getting her Masters in Special Education. Her mother initiated treatment after Debbie experienced a stress breakdown at the beginning of graduate school. Because of the anxiety episode Debbie withdrew from school for a […]

Rip Van Winkle Syndrome: Toward a Recovery from Adult Pervasive Social Anxiety

The story of Rip Van Winkle is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War. In a pleasant village, at the foot of New York’s Catskill Mountains, lives kindly Rip Van Winkle, a colonial British-American villager of Dutch ancestry. Van Winkle enjoys solitary activities in the wilderness, but he is also loved […]