Comments on: Social Anxiety and the Physical Environment http://www.anxiousliving.com/2006/10/30/social-anxiety-and-the-physical-environment/ An Exploration into Social Anxiety Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:14:32 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Ryan Oelke http://www.anxiousliving.com/2006/10/30/social-anxiety-and-the-physical-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-1144 Ryan Oelke Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:38:02 +0000 http://www.anxiousliving.com/2006/10/30/social-anxiety-and-the-physical-environment/#comment-1144 Hey Gus, thanks for sharing about your job. I totally agree, the workplace has a HUGE impact on our life. We spend the majority of our time there! And as you said, we really need to focus on knowing ourselves, which is something I've been writing a lot about. Working in residence life was extremely challenging for me, but it has helped along the way to grow. But for the longest time I couldn't sort out what was anxiety and what was simply my preference. I realized that my workplace went against both in many aspects (although to be fair I resonate(d) with much of it too). In the end, I'm much like you with the workplace. I really enjoy being with others, but only a few people at a time:) I need my space!:P Hey Gus, thanks for sharing about your job. I totally agree, the workplace has a HUGE impact on our life. We spend the majority of our time there! And as you said, we really need to focus on knowing ourselves, which is something I’ve been writing a lot about. Working in residence life was extremely challenging for me, but it has helped along the way to grow. But for the longest time I couldn’t sort out what was anxiety and what was simply my preference. I realized that my workplace went against both in many aspects (although to be fair I resonate(d) with much of it too).

In the end, I’m much like you with the workplace. I really enjoy being with others, but only a few people at a time:) I need my space!:P

]]> By: Social Anxiety Blog http://www.anxiousliving.com/2006/10/30/social-anxiety-and-the-physical-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-1143 Social Anxiety Blog Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:44:27 +0000 http://www.anxiousliving.com/2006/10/30/social-anxiety-and-the-physical-environment/#comment-1143 Ryan, I'm going to tell you about my job environment, because our work is the place where we spent a lot of our time of our lives. Fortunately I have a good job now, I work with computers, that really reduces the time I have to spent with people, see I couldn’t handle a job where I would have to be in contact with people permanently, I just have contact with my co-workers with whom I learned to get alone well, I even enjoy their company. I didn’t learn many social abilities when I was I child, that is part of the difficulty I have when I am around people, I just don’t know how to handle certain social situations. So I think that each of us must learn to know ourselves well in order to know where we can be productive, with our own potentials and weaknesses, we must learn to accept ourselves the way we are and find our own place in society, where we can be comfortable and have a better life quality. Ryan, I’m going to tell you about my job environment, because our work is the place where we spent a lot of our time of our lives.

Fortunately I have a good job now, I work with computers, that really reduces the time I have to spent with people, see I couldn’t handle a job where I would have to be in contact with people permanently, I just have contact with my co-workers with whom I learned to get alone well, I even enjoy their company.

I didn’t learn many social abilities when I was I child, that is part of the difficulty I have when I am around people, I just don’t know how to handle certain social situations.

So I think that each of us must learn to know ourselves well in order to know where we can be productive, with our own potentials and weaknesses, we must learn to accept ourselves the way we are and find our own place in society, where we can be comfortable and have a better life quality.

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