Anxious Living

The Reason for Renewed Posting

August 14th, 2008 by Aaron

Now I want to get into the reason I decided to renew posting at Anxious Living.

For the last four months I have been doing a form of therapy known as EEG biofeedback (previously more commonly referred to as neurofeedback). On the most basic level it is a system that allows the brain to get information about itself and thereby correct certain imbalances or traumas. As I get into further posts describing the process in more detail I’ll provide plenty of links. For now I’d like to concentrate on my initial experience.

I was skeptical when first offered the chance to try the therapy. Skeptical, but curious. Anything that might work was worth a shot.

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Re-Introducing Anxious Living

August 4th, 2008 by Aaron

As you may (or may not) have noticed this site hasn’t been terribly active lately. To put it succinctly, we stopped posting. And Anxious Living probably would have slipped into that place reserved for Internet sites that never get updated, despite the best of intentions, if not for a lucky set of circumstances on my part.

Something unexpected and very positive has happened and I want to share it here because it has had such a powerful effect on my social anxiety. I have had a major reduction in the physical symptoms of social anxiety and the associated thoughts are loosening their hold. This is thanks to a very specific form of therapy I have been doing for the last three months.

I’ll get into that therapy fully with a handful of posts and provide links so that anyone interested in trying what has helped me so much will know who to contact. But for right now I want to establish this site as active once again. My next post will be a catch up post and then I’ll get into the story of what has happened with this therapy.

I’d like to take this opportunity to invite anyone who is dealing with SAD to write for this site. Please contact us with stories you’d like to share or insights you’ve gained. Take a look through the archives and see if anything we have written speaks to you. We’d love to see a post about your reaction to a particular topic we once covered. Anything at all will be welcomed. I would like to keep this site going once again.

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Social Anxiety Poll: Therapuetic Approaches

November 13th, 2006 by Ryan Oelke

I thought I would try something new today, polling. The question for this post is, what form of therapy have you used in dealing with social anxiety? Now, yes, it’s likely that some of us have used more than one form of therapy, but the poll won’t allow multiple selections:) Also, group therapy is very common, but it is more a technique than a theory. In other words, group therapy can be used with many therapeutic approaches.

In addition to the question, feel free to share your experiences with the particular form(s) of therapy you have used. Or if you have wonderings about any of the approaches, post them as well, and everyone can share their insight.

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