Social Anxiety Disorder vs Shyness – How to Fix It

Are you Socially Anxious? What’s the difference between social anxiety disorder and being shy? That’s what I’m discuss in this video. I also discuss how we treat social anxiety disorder. I discuss the medications we use in social anxiety disorder.Exposure therapy is a very effective technique used to treat social anxiety disorder. In this video, I walk you through the technique of using a fear ladder to help you social anxiety.Recommended Self Help Resources (Includes amazon affiliate links. Clicking these links will not cost you any additional money. Any proceeds go to support the channel. Thank you).Managing Social Anxiety: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach (Treatments That Work) https://amzn.to/2HHdwXzShyness and Social Anxiety Workbook: Proven Techniques for Overcoming Your Fears. https://amzn.to/2UizoPa References Weeks JW, Spokas ME, Heimberg RG. Psychometric evaluation of the mini-social phobia inventory (Mini-SPIN) in a treatment-seeking sample. Depress Anxiety. 2007; 24(6):382-91.Vincent J. Fogliati, Matthew D. Terides, Milena Gandy, Lauren G. Staples, Luke Johnston, Eyal Karin, Ronald M. Rapee, Nickolai Titov & Blake F. Dear (2016) Psychometric properties of the mini-social phobia inventory (Mini-SPIN) in a large online treatment-seeking sample, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 45:3, 236-257,Disclaimer: All of the information on this channel is for educational purposes and not intended to be specific/personal medical advice from me to you. Watching the videos or getting answers to comments/question, does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. If you have your own doctor, perhaps these videos can help prepare you for your discussion with your doctor.I upload every Wednesday at 9am, and sometimes have extra videos in between. Subscribe to my channel so you don’t miss a video https://goo.gl/DFfT33