social anxiety

5 Ways HSP’s Can Minimize Social Anxiety

by 02.01.2012 Introvert Personality
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photo credit: nandadevieast For highly sensitive people, social anxiety is an especially serious problem because HSP’s are different and because their values, perceptions and experiences often do not mirror the Western competitive model. You know how it feels when you have a social event to attend and your anxiety levels start to rise. HSP’s are [...]

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Causes Of Social Phobia

by 01.27.2012 Dealing with Anxiety
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photo credit: CMMooney It is useful for highly sensitive people to understand the causes of social phobia which often result in the crippling self consciousness and which can contribute to the HSP tendency to have an introverted personality. Social Phobia is sometimes referred to either as Generalized Social Phobia, which NIMH states is the most [...]

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Criticism Is Not Problem Solving

by 09.12.2011 Healthy Thinking

Criticism is not problem solving. Criticism has an intense quality to it, but criticism can be deceptive because it feels as if we are doing something when we are criticizing someone or something. However, more often than not we are not really doing anything when we criticize, we are just moving the energy around. Criticism [...]

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Class and Superiority

by 08.15.2011 Perspective
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photo credit: m.gifford Why are class and superiority important subjects for highly sensitive people? Social anxiety is a serious problem for highly sensitive people, since HSP’s values are different from those of the dominant culture –  a culture that pursues competition above quality of life.  Finding a way to be in and live in the [...]

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