How To Understand and Live With Social Anxiety Disorder

Online Course

Created byHowExpert

Last updated 8/2020

English

What you'll learn

How To Understand and Live With Social Anxiety Disorder

Course content

1 section • 9 lectures • 1h 3m total length

Welcome0:23
Learn to understand and live with social anxiety disorder, written by how expert press Candace Littleton and narrated by Phoenix Phillips.
Introduction7:46
Explore the nature of social anxiety, its cognitive and biological roots, and how seven steps, divided into three sections, help you understand and live with the condition.
Step 1: Pursue Healthier Choices8:59
Increase healthier choices by gradually adding exercise, better eating, and sleep priority, while limiting caffeine and maintaining regular meals to ease mood and reduce social anxiety.
Step 2: Find your Method6:09
Find your method to manage social anxiety by practicing belly breathing, setting achievable goals, and taking brief breaks to regain control during panic attacks.
Step 3: Focus on the Big Picture6:06
focus on the big picture by simplifying the situation, articulating what’s happening, and asking yourself key questions to reframe thoughts; then reflect and seek small joys.
Step 4: Challenge Your Anxiety6:30
Challenge your anxiety by standing up for yourself, saying no, and asking how you can help yourself. Take small steps out of your comfort zone to prevent avoidance from worsening.
Step 5: Love Yourself8:20
Love yourself by embracing the three P's—persistence, practice, and patience. Remember it's not me, it's you, and make you a priority.
Step 6: Strengthen Relationships7:06
Strengthen relationships by telling someone about your anxiety, listening, clarifying, and practicing socialising using exposure hierarchy to build trust and self-assurance.
Step 7: Seek Help12:05
Seek help from professionals to tailor cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), including exposure therapy, explore meditation and mindfulness, join a local support group, and consider medications to manage social anxiety.

Requirements

None

Description

How to Understand and Live with Social Anxiety emphasizes the idea that social anxiety is not a disorder, not something that needs to be fixed, but developed conditioning of the mind to think and believe in negative realities. The book, through a step-by-step process, helps readers slowly understand their mental illness within the distinctiveness of their own context and gives them the tools to rewire their thought processes.

At the book’s end, readers who actively practice some or all of the seven helpful steps will find that they feel more in control of their social anxiety, and therefore, more in control of their life. WC: 105

About the Expert

Candice Littleton has struggled with social anxiety for over eleven years and feels she’s managed, through a series of cognitive practices, to gain insight on her mental illness. This new grasp on the distinctiveness of her daily suffering has helped her learn to live with her social anxiety, allowing her to experience a peaceful co-occupancy.

She hopes that this book will help others on their journey to leading a more purposeful and intentional life – one where self-pity, self-doubt, and the crushing irrationality of social anxiety is no longer a daily occurrence. Her success, with the help of support from friends, family, and counselors, has propelled her into a lifestyle she never thought she’d attain – one where she believes in herself and trust in the fact that she is not a burden to others, but, in fact, a commodity to this life.

Who this course is for:

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