I have discussed before that I have gone through social anxiety and thanks to self help have come out on the other side. Today I want to give a few of my reasons why I think self help for social anxiety is far better than anything else.
First off although social anxiety is pretty easy to diagnose each person is going to suffer to a different degree. Since you already know how badly you feel it you can more accurately determine how much help you need, whereas someone else simply may not understand how badly you have it and may not give you enough of the help you need.
Self help means that you have to take responsibility for yourself. Too many people want to blame others for where they are at, or if they are taking medication they want to blame that for all the awful side effects it can give you.
Self help means that you have to do research. Going to the doctor may help fix certain problems but from what I’ve seen doing so means people don’t tend to ask as many questions as they should. When they don’t ask questions they don’t learn anything. When I was researching my own social anxiety it amazed me how many people all over the world suffer from it, I’m talking millions. Had I not done the research I would have continued to assume I was the only person out there who felt the way I did, which only served to make my feelings of loneliness stronger. The research I did made me understand just exactly what I was going through and how to make it better and also what kind of time I could look at for being free of it.
Self help means you can choose the method that’s most effective for you. Yes I received counselling for my social anxiety, did it work? No. I got advice from my doctor, and for me that didn’t work either. I was never a fan of medication so I refused to take any of that. The sheer number of ways and methods to get over social anxiety is staggering, by using self help you can experience as many or as few as you wish and find the one (or few) method that’s most effective for you. This control you may not have otherwise.
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