Social Phobia

Does being nervous or uncomfortable around other people keep you from doing the things you want to do? Does being the center of attention make you feel nervous and self-conscious? If so, you might be experiencing social phobia. Millions of Americans experience severe anxiety in social situations. Many people with social phobia must be alone because they feel like they are being observed critically. Treatment methods for this social phobia include cognitive-behavioral therapies to produce long-lasting, permanent relief from the anxiety filled world of social phobia.

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Social Phobia News Articles

• Do You Feel Me?

  By Lana M. Ackaway, LCSW-R, NCPsyAv
  
  Punitive superego is often found within addiction and within borderline. It produces not only self-criticism, but also acts as a censorship over what is felt to be unacceptable thoughts and feelings—a resistance that offers a protection against shame and humiliation. Read Full Article »

• Changing the Lives of Teens Through the Power of Choice: A Strength-Based Model in Wilderness Therapy

  By Meghan Vivo
  
  Outback is a progressive wilderness therapy program for adolescents ages 13 to 17 struggling with problems such as oppositional defiance, academic underachievement, low self-esteem, depression, substance abuse, and other behavioral and emotional issues that operates under the philosophy that we all have a choice as to what we’ll make of our lives. Read Full Article »

• Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to Treating Cocaine Addiction

  A Cognitive-Behavioral approach to treating cocaine addiction attempts to help patients recognize, avoid, and cope. That is, to recognize the situations in which they are most likely to use cocaine, to avoid those situations when appropriate, and to cope more effectively with a range of problems and problematic behaviors associated with substance abuse. Read Full Article »

• Beating Addiction: Help for Teen Girls

  An Interview with Laurie Wilmot, LCSW—By Meghan Vivo
  
  At an age when most kids are breaking away from their parents, exploring their career interests, and establishing lifelong bonds with friends and partners, teens who are addicted to drugs or alcohol face an entirely different challenge just to get back to normal adolescent life. Read Full Article »

• Facts About Alcohol--From Social Drinking to Dangerous Dependence

  Most adults can drink moderate amounts of alcohol up to two drinks per day for men and one drink per day for women and older people (one drink equals one 12-ounce bottle of beer or wine cooler, one 5-ounce glass of wine, or 1.5 ounces of 80-proof distilled spirits). However, for a variety of critical reasons, many should not drink at all. Read Full Article »

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