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	<description>An Exploration into Social Anxiety</description>
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		<title>Fundamental Distrust</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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, anything I can learn.
One thing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anxiousliving.com/2007/04/18/social-anxiety-distrust/</link>
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		<title>Appropriateness for a Third Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.  I feel embarrassed for that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anxiousliving.com/2007/03/31/social-anxiety-appropriate-third/</link>
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		<title>More on Appropriateness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been thinking a bit more about the idea of appropriateness.  Another aspect of speaking in particular ways to particular people is the fear of speaking or acting in a way that is outside of an established relationship.
In each of my relationships, I put a lot of effort into making sure I do not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anxiousliving.com/2007/03/22/social-anxiety-appropriate-again/</link>
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		<title>Appropriate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I’ve noticed a certain quality to my social anxiety: appropriateness.  I put a lot of effort into always trying to act appropriately.  Where I got my ideas about what is appropriate is probably worth exploring.  But I won’t be doing that just yet.  I wanted to take a couple of posts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anxiousliving.com/2007/03/08/social-anxiety-appropriate/</link>
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		<title>Confidence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve long had this pattern where, staying up late into the night, I get excited about the possibilities of life.  I think of all the great things I might do: people I could talk to, places I could go, goals I could achieve.  Just anything.  And then in the morning I wake up and know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anxiousliving.com/2007/02/22/social-anxiety-confidence/</link>
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		<title>Brief Update on Slow Motion Social Anxiety</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 
I went to the show I wrote about last week.  And I wore the shirt.  And, believe it or not, nothing happened.  No one pointed and laughed.  No one stared.  Other western shirts were worn, though few as colorful and glorious as mine.
 
So, what is the lesson to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anxiousliving.com/2007/02/08/social-anxiety-slow-motion-update/</link>
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		<title>Slow Motion Social Anxiety</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few posts ago I wrote about how I believe there is an aspect of repressed excitement to my social anxiety.  Just recently, this played out in a unique way.  I was able to spot the pattern because it happened in slow motion.

There’s a concert coming up, one of my favorite artists.  And there’s a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anxiousliving.com/2007/02/01/social-anxiety-slow-motion/</link>
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