Tips for Controlling Social Anxiety: Attend Structured Activities

Lynne Taetzsch Living With It Author and Artist I am an artist and writer who has suffered from anxiety and mood... Send Message Subscribe: Lynne Taetzsch

Friday, January 26, 2007
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One manifestation of my social anxiety is that I try to guess what people expect me to be and then to fulfill those expectations in order to avoid conflict. I’m always wearing a mask because of that, until I get to know someone really well. I need to know that they will always react to me in a po...

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social anxiety disorder
kansas
Friday, September 21, 2007 at 10:45 PM

thank you. i have also found help in

http://socialanxiety.picsent.com

your article and the articles on that site were both very helpfull.

see my face gets red, my hands sweat, my ears burn you name it!

re: social anxiety disorder
Lynne
Tuesday, October 09, 2007 at 02:14 PM

Hello Kansas,

Thanks for sharing this website address. It's always good to have a variety of solutions to a problem like anxiety. What works for one person may not work for another.

We need all the help we can get!

Lynne Taetzsch
Author of THE BIPOLAR DEMENTIA ART CHRONICLES

re: re: social anxiety disorder
Tina
Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 05:34 PM

So... If I were you going to this support group... When it was my turn to speak I would have an all out panic attack. I can't even stop @ red lights with cars around thnking that every single person is looking @ me. Paranoia. It's like a grind of teeth to sit there so still if someone was in fact looking @ me they might think I would be a manican. The only thing that I have found to work is the medication, sadly.