I’m going to keep this post as simple as possible because as the title suggests the causes of panic attacks are not that hard or as complex as a lot may like it to be. (more…)

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Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is one of the biggest mental health issues in the world today, with 15 million sufferers in the United States alone, this number is growing. According to an article from the New York Times, 40 million adults are affected by anxiety disorders. Social Anxiety Disorder is also a problem that affects many millions of people throughout the rest of the world. It is sad that of all the social anxiety treatments there are very very few that actually work. In fact the Social Anxiety Centre reports that

“No SAD medications have been shown to improve quality of life.” (more…)

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Would it help me to say that change is hard if not impossible? That the life of a person who has phobias, social anxiety, problems with weight or smoking or habitual bad habits is doomed to failure? Would it help me to say that you should stay stuck inside a horrible reality where you don’t even have a chance of reaching your life’s potential? Amazingly the answer to this question when applied to my advice being accepted by people in general is a definite YES!

But this is simply not advice I’m willing to give. I think it’s retarded.

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Everyday my inbox gets filled with articles relating to social anxiety disorder. It’s something that completely fascinates me because I’ve gone through it and found a way out, so many don’t. Some because they don’t want to, others because they don’t think they can, and still more because they just don’t know how.

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Would it be fair to compare a person to a business? Probably not, they are 2 fundamentally different things. However would it be fair to say that the forces affecting a person are the same or similar to those affecting business? Definitely (more…)

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