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Here is the (I’ve been told the not 100% related) video product here: Anxiety Disorder, also known as Social Phobia, involves intense fear of certain social situations — especially situations that are unfamiliar or in which you’ll be watched or evaluated by others. These social situations may be so frightening that you get anxious just thinking about them or go to great lengths to avoid them.Based on his book – Overcoming Shyness and Social Phobia – Author and Associate Professor Dr Ron Rapee along with Lisa Lampe, Psychiatrist explores the possibilities of curing this social anxiety disorder with live examples of Eric, Jon and Lisa through CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) and Meditation.Researched and produced by Christine Mason and Christopher Thomas.darkprice99 wrote:just to get you warmed up a littleOvercoming Social Anxiety using cbtKey points• Self-consciousness comes from focusing your attentioninwards.• It is at the centre of all the vicious cycles that help to keepthe problem going.• It also makes the problem worse.• Focusing attention inwards fills you with information aboutyourself and your reactions to feeling anxious. It alsomeans that you have less attention available for thingsoutside yourself. So feeling self-conscious leaves youshort of accurate, detailed information. It leaves you witha hazy impression of what was going on.• Reducing self-consciousness involves: working out howself-consciousness affects you; deciding not to think aboutunpleasant experiences; filling your mind with somethingelse.• It is extremely helpful to use your sense of curiosity. Thinkof yourself as a scientist who is finding out more aboutsocial interactions. You could carry out two-way experiments,in easy situations first; and you could turn yourselfinto an accurate, interested and curious observer.• It may take some courage to stop retreating into yourself,and instead to focus on what is happening around you.Although the retreat feels safer, it can make you vulnerableto episodes of self-consciousness. Facing the world is a farsafer option in the end.• Self-consciousness influences what you perceive, howyou interpret it and what you remember. Broadening yourfocus of attention changes what you perceive; working onyour thoughts can change how you interpret what happens;and doing things in a new way starts to fill yourmemory with new things, so that the three strategiesdescribed so far fit together well.