Beating Social Anxiety

I ran into the Psych Central website this year. I am following their blog and it had interesting topics daily. This is a compilation of t...

Here's a free e-book that you should not miss. It's a compilation of quotes from the best contemporary minds. It's inspiring. I...

Last Thanksgiving weekend, many of us bloggers participated in the first documented “ blog rally ” to promote Engage With Grace – a movemen...

Dr. Rob has a great post on anxiety . Make sure you read it. It's worth knowing what happens in a doctor's head when you have anxie...

Long time, no see! I'm in a contemplative mode right now, so I figured I could write an update. My social anxiety is better than ever. I...

No man is an island, and as human beings, we have to interact with society in some form or the other if we are to survive on a day to day ba...

A commenter asked me to recommend other books like Michael Pollan's. I did not read other books like Michael Pollan's, but here'...

6 years ago, on Valentine's day, I was admitted into the hospital. I was 24 weeks pregnant and I was feeling great. But my doctor's ...

For the last couple of years while I was blogging about social anxiety, I also followed a number of other social-anxiety related blogs. And,...

I heard a few people positively mentioning Michael Pollan 's - The Omnivore Dilemma, so I read it and I loved it so much that I had to a...

I had a post earlier this year ranting about health websites that try to buy small blogs like mine. The website that contacted me was Wells...

A yoga teacher friend of mine, Kitty had a heartbreaking post today about her hearing getting worse. She a great yoga teacher and she'...

I visited a friend yesterday and met her nice husband. This gave me a moment of reflection on how my life changed over the last couple of y...

I am yogileana on Twitter . I like Twitter for little thoughts. I don't want to throw in everybody's face that I deal with social an...

Here's the link for voting for the best patient blog. Please consider voting for me. http://medgadget.com/2008bestpatient.html I must ad...

Oh, wow! I was nominated in the finalist list of best patient blogs! That's pretty neat! Here's the list of finalists. The voting s...

I disappeared for a while in a "holiday anxiety". I suspect this is not unusual to those of you that struggle with the same issues...

This post might come as an unexpected and unpleasant surprise to some of you. It might even push some away if you haven't yet seen this ...

My world has changed a few days ago. One of our acquaintances, a young guy just out of college, died from an overdose of medication. He was ...

I nominated myself for a 2008 patient blog award. I mostly did it to increase the readership of my blog. There are two kind of people that m...

I want to salute two visitors. One of them came in two days ago and submitted a comment on my emotional immaturity post. Apparently he found...

Paul Levy invited me and 30 other bloggers to participate in the blog rally "Engage with Grace". I think the subject is worth the ...

We make choices throughout our lives - where we want to live, what types of activities will fill our days, with whom we spend our time. Thes...

It's almost two years since I started this blog, and the online world is so different now than it was back then. What great opportunitie...

I got a few emails lately from people thanking me about the blog and hoping to follow my steps in overcoming social anxiety. I know I heard ...

I've been slow to write lately and I would so much love to restart writing. I want to write about life and work, not necessary on this b...

These days I have more subscriptions to my blog than ever before... Don't take this to be in the millions of readers LOL, just around 30...

Do you know WebMD? There are now lots of WebMDs emerging. They each come with the promise to help you manage your health and give you a comm...

This post is probably going to come as a surprise after my earlier comments about alternative medicine . My conclusions over the last couple...

A good article that summarizes the status of psychiatry and the push towards more medication for insurance-accepting providers. http://www.k...

More and more I am convinced that my recent success in beating social anxiety has more to do with the amount of positive programming about m...

About.com has a page on social anxiety disorder and the moderator, Arlin Cuncic, released an article about the best SAD blogs. My blog is ...

Woohoo! I passed the exam. It wasn't that difficult, but while studying I realized how much we learned that other people do not know. I...

For the last week I worked on my treasure map: a display of pictures that inspire me. I never thought how much pleasure this exercise will b...

If you were around for a while you know my hunger for comments. While feeling better over the last couple of months, I (and my blog) survive...

I noticed that with anxiety you can't just relax and let things the way they are. You continuously need to push through and challenge yo...

An excellent article in New York Times talking about using meditation in therapy: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/health/research/27budd.h...

One of my favorite authors, Irvin Yalom, describes the aim of therapy as opening up first to your therapist and then to the world. I loved h...

One of the first things that my therapist did with me and the most successful for gaining my trust was to explain that everybody has at some...

So you found out that you have social anxiety. And you read that the best treatment is a combination of drugs and therapy, probably CBT - co...

Check this new very interesting blog about social anxiety: - Overcoming Social Anxiety . Mat Ambrose is a freelance writer. The first artic...

In 2004 I was not sleeping well and not feeling well. I visited my doctor and she diagnosed anxiety, prescribed Clonazepam and suggested tha...

I had an offer to write an anxiety blog for a health web site. I just turned it down. I will continue to be my own boss. But it made me thin...

I was asked to participate in a research about mental health and blogging habits. Sounds interesting. If you want to join the details are be...

I've been up with a lot lately. Lots of work and taking care of my kid, but also lots of thinking and crystallizing my thoughts. I start...

A quote from The Winter of our Discontent - John Steinbeck that the ones of you that have social anxiety might find helpful: My sudden fear ...

It's almost two weeks since my father died and I am realizing that I mostly like to do things that I did with him: logic, math, thinking...

I had this post already written, so I will publish it, but the next few days/posts will take a different turn, as my father unexpectedly (he...

I ran into an article that explains that expressing anger might be helpful for your health and that couples that express anger are happier. ...

I keep wondering whether there is a link between my lifelong dealing with anxiety and my excellent memory for details. I think it's part...

I noticed a few positive things this week. First, I was doing a user training. I did not have enough time to prepare and I didn't do a s...