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Social Anxiety and Phobia: Part 3 – Treatment

Author: admin, 06 13th, 2010

What Can Be Done to Treat Social Anxieties or Phobias?

At Psychological Health and Wellness, located on the Mesa/Gilbert Arizona border, we have found that the first hurdle to treating social anxiety and phobia is to help the sufferer see that people’s well intentioned though harmful attitudes are not meant as criticisms, but that they are legitimate strategies used by others to deal with things, it is just not the strategy that will work for them.  Read the rest of this entry »


Social Anxiety and Phobia: Part 2 – Causes

Author: admin, 06 09th, 2010

There is a general mythology that social anxiety or phobia begins in adolescence, and that it is an unfortunate experience of being a shy or awkward teenager.  Some writers even point back to childhood and express that “shy” children mature into adults with social anxiety.  However the reality is sometimes if not significantly more complex than those oversimplified answers. Read the rest of this entry »


Social Anxiety and Phobia: Part 1 – Symptoms

Author: admin, 06 06th, 2010

A very talented Engineer from Arizona sought help with a challenging problem that was interfering with her professional life almost daily in the last few months.  She had worked for the same firm for seven years and been quite successful in small work projects and because of the talent and skills that she possessed she had been promoted to manage not only an office of this large company but also a division of the company at large. Read the rest of this entry »