http://www.anxiousliving.com An Exploration into Social Anxiety Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:22:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently, the Standford Psychology Department let us know about a wonderful research study they're doing on social anxiety, on that you could participate in. Here's the info they passed to us: If you’re looking for help with Social Anxiety Disorder, one option to consider is participating in research studies. At the ... http://www.anxiousliving.com/2009/07/15/new-sad-research-study-at-stanford/ I'm a little later than I'd like to be in getting up the next post about my experiences with EEG biofeedback. I'm working on breaking it up into digestible chunks while waiting for website work to finish so I can load a post up with links. On another ... http://www.anxiousliving.com/2008/08/25/small-delay-and-a-pleasant-distraction/ 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 ... http://www.anxiousliving.com/2008/08/14/the-reason-for-renewed-posting/ I experienced a real burst of progress when I first realized I had SAD and began to see clearly how it had affected my life. I was able to put a lot of very frustrating things into perspective and lighten up about my worst moments. Writing posts for ... http://www.anxiousliving.com/2008/08/07/since-we-stopped-posting/ 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 ... http://www.anxiousliving.com/2008/08/04/re-introducing-anxious-living/ I keep going over my insecurities, my anxieties.  I pick them apart in a journal I keep on my laptop.  Each time I get anxious I try to take a look at exactly what is happening to me, what caused the anxiety, what thoughts are attached, what is my reaction, ... http://www.anxiousliving.com/2007/04/18/social-anxiety-distrust/ What I wrote about in my last post (trying to avoid any actions that might make those around me uncomfortable) applies equally well to my reaction to other people.  People that seem to behave inappropriately for whatever kind of group they are with make me very uneasy.  I get uncomfortable.  ... http://www.anxiousliving.com/2007/03/31/social-anxiety-appropriate-third/