Anxious Living

Social Anxiety 007: Meet Ryan

June 20th, 2006 by Ryan Oelke

(Please note, our introductions will be a bit longer than the average post).

Social anxiety is not always noticeable from the outside. There’s a lot of truth in that for me. Given my work and educational experiences, and personal interactions and relationships with co-workers and friends, it’s interesting that most have no idea I struggle with social anxiety and wouldn’t unless I told them. A few might have some idea that I’m a little “shy”, but most tend to think I’m a sociable guy who is also a bit of a recluse, a very reflective type of person. That’s true, but it’s not the whole picture. No where near.

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Welcome to Anxious Living

June 19th, 2006 by Editors

Anxious Living is an exploration into the nature and treatment of social anxiety. As the authors of Anxious Living we write based on our own personal experiences of social anxiety, as well as on formal and informal research. Posts on Anxious Living discuss the experience of social anxiety, in addition to techniques and paths of treatment, both in an objective manner and from individual experience of those techniques and paths. We invite you to join us in this ongoing conversation, whether you yourself struggle with social anxiety, you know someone who does, you are a mental health practitioner, or if you simply have an interest in social anxiety. We encourage you to share your experiences, feelings, thoughts, and ideas in the comment section. Our hope is that this will be a supportive and dynamic site for everyone.

Introductions

This week each of of us will introduce ourselves in individual posts, letting you know a little about our experiences with social anxiety. Please feel free to introduce yourself to us and to fellow readers in the comment section.

Social Anxiety Resources

We hope that Anxious Living connects readers to valuable resources, as well as to other social anxiety blogs. At the top of this site you’ll see a horizontal menu with links to other pages within this site. Our Resource page contains many of the highest quality websites dealing with social anxiety. For literature on social anxiety, check out our SA Books page.

In efforts to create a social network in the blogosphere, we have started a SA Bloggers page. This will be constantly updated as we find other bloggers writing on social anxiety. You’ll also see information on adding a SA Blogger button to your blog.

Upcoming Articles

After introductions, we’ll dive right in to some topics and issues regarding social anxiety. Some examples of what we have in the works are posts (articles) on social anxiety (SAD) assessments, experiences and reflections with those assessments, stress and SAD, the positive side of SAD, family history and SAD, a guest post on living with someone who struggles with SAD, and plenty more. We hope you’ll join us in this exploration.

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