Crazy Easy Confidence Builder!

Social anxiety, or social phobia, often means having low confidence or no confidence at all. If you suffer from social anxiety and have low or no confidence, you can follow this crazy easy confidence builder to build your confidence in no time.

What are some traits of people with confidence? These people believe in themselves, they walk with their head high and shoulders straight and people with confidence don’t need to be judgmental of others to enhance their self-worth.

Crazy Easy Confidence Builder!

What is the crazy easy way to build confidence? Build your confidence by faking that you are confident!

• Walk tall with your head held high and smile a lot.
• Smile and say hi to complete strangers you pass by.
• Tell yourself over and over You CAN do this! You ARE confident!
• Speak slowly and clearly, don’t rush your words.
• Do NOT call yourself stupid, fat, ugly or anything negative; ever!

People are more concerned with themselves and what is going on in their own head than to worry about what you are doing, trust me.

If you practice this crazy easy confidence builder by faking your way to confidence, eventually you will be confident!

Social Anxiety Trust Drug Cure or Curse?

There is a new study showing a trust drug can cure social anxiety or social phobia. Social anxiety is intense fear of social situations.

The trust drug is a nasal spray called Oxytocin, sometimes called the “Love Hormone.” You can read more here.

Social Anxiety Trust Drug Cure Or Curse?

Everyone is excited that this trust drug will cure social anxiety, and although it sounds good, it might be more of a curse.

This trust drug will help cure social anxiety, but at what cost? There’s a statement in that article that says:

They found that people who inhaled the "love hormone" Oxytocin continued to trust strangers with their money - even after they were betrayed.

Curing social anxiety or social phobia is one thing, trusting complete strangers without some kind of common sense reasoning is dangerous.

What are your thoughts? Is this social anxiety trust drug a cure or a curse?

What Is Social Anxiety?

This is a 28 minute video explaining exactly what Social Anxiety is and is not.

Dr. Granet is talking with Dr. Murray Stein who is a professor of psychiatry at the University of California.

These two discuss the differences between social anxiety and simple shyness.

The video is called Health Matters: What Is Social Anxiety Disorder? Enjoy!

Social Anxiety | Stop Your Paranoia!

Paranoia or being paranoid is a magnified mistrust of others not based on fact, and characterized by excessive anxiety or fear.

Paranoia is often experienced by those suffering from social anxiety or social phobia. Paranoia can often be misdiagnosed as social anxiety, schizophrenia, and other conditions. Social anxiety can also often be misdiagnosed as paranoia.

Stop Your Paranoia!

Whether you have been diagnosed with paranoia or with social anxiety, depression, or any other condition, living with paranoia is extremely difficult.

You’re in constant turmoil believing everyone is “out to get you” so to speak. You feel everyone is talking about you and judging your every move.

Most people will experience paranoia at some point in their lifetime. Anxiety and stress factors can play a huge role in paranoid feelings.

To stop your paranoia is to stop and redirect your thoughts. Negative thoughts play a huge role in how we feel about ourselves and they play right into feelings of paranoia.

An easy way to stop these negative thoughts is to visualize a huge, red stop sign in your mind and say the word STOP! Say it out loud and loud if you must to redirect your thoughts.

Practice makes perfect, so it will take time to stop the negative thoughts and to stop your paranoia, so don’t give up!

Social Anxiety | Telephone Fear

If you have social anxiety, chances are high that you also fear the telephone. I touched on fearing the telephone and just how crippling it can be on my post The Telephone Call.

That post was more for explaining what telephone fear is and how someone suffering from social anxiety feels regarding making or receiving phone calls.

Overcome Your Telephone Fear!

For help with overcoming your fear of the telephone Do You Have Telephonophobia lists some simple steps you can take to put your telephone fear behind you once and for all.

Don’t let your social anxiety or your fear of the telephone stop you from living your life to the fullest. Good Luck!

Social Anxiety | Public Speaking Fear Has No Cure!

Social anxiety is the fear of being judged by others in social situations. With that thought in mind, public speaking is the ultimate fear for those suffering from social anxiety.

Unfortunately, you don’t have to have social anxiety for public speaking to be a huge problem. Public speaking, or making any kind of presentation in public, is the number one fear reported by people of the United States.

Public Speaking Fear Has No Cure!

A new study has shown people with low anxiety had nervousness at the beginning of their public speaking, but lower anxiety at the end.

Those with higher anxiety by nature started with high anxiety and by the end of their public speaking had even higher anxiety.

You can read the full article on the study here.

Learning Public Speaking Skills

Although there’s no cure to magically stop the anxiety and fear when speaking in public, it can be managed with a few tricks.

• Try to focus on your speech and not your anxiety.
• Treat symptoms as soon as they arise, like sipping water for a dry mouth for instance.
• For shaking hands, put them behind your back or clasp them together.

So, although the fear of public speaking has no cure, even those suffering from social anxiety can get through a speech with practice and a few tricks.