Archive for July, 2006
Social Anxiety Assessments
July 10th, 2006 by Ryan Oelke
When I realized that I struggled with social anxiety I never took any sort of formal assessment. My assessment was picking up Painfully Shy and reading it, experiencing “a-ha’s!” one after the other. I wonder how many others have had the same experience? I really didn’t need anyone to give me a formal assessment. However, assessments are great because they do help to narrow the possibilities, and if someone struggles with a mental health disorder, the assessment is a learning process in and of itself.
Out of the social anxiety assessments listed on our resource page, I found Painfully Shy’s SAD self-assessment to be the most thorough, and the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale to be the best attempt at a more scientific approach. Painfully Shy’s assessment covers fears, avoidance behaviors, and physical symptoms. Taking it again gave me both a positive rush and a little bit of anxiety. A rush because I feel like I have perspective on what happens for me; anxiety because it focuses me on the problem, when I usually try to “ignore” it. Taking an assessment pushes me to embrace my social anxiety and to do something about it rather than simply avoid situations and attempt to deny my feelings.
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Subtle and not so subtle avoidances
July 7th, 2006 by dashh
I wanted to post on avoidances after I was inspired by Aaron’s post on avoidance in social situations like parties, etc. Just like Ryan, as I read Aaron’s post I felt like I could have written it myself as my experiences and habits of avoidance are very similar to Aaron’s in social situations.
Social Functions and SAD
July 5th, 2006 by Aaron
Because of a perhaps overly ambitious career path choice, I’ve gone to many more parties and social functions than I’ve wanted to, which is still far less that most people in my field. I touched on this in my intro post.
I’ve developed a handful of coping mechanisms.
Accountabilty and Social Anxiety
July 3rd, 2006 by Ryan Oelke
One of the most important parts of working with my social anxiety is accountability. The most change I experience is when I have someone to be accountable to in making that change. When I was working in therapy, I made a lot of progress. After that, I moved and didn’t really do anything consciously about SAD until talking with Aaron, and now this blog.
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