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Do You Fit In? Anxiety, Emotions and Friends
Do you sometimes feel misunderstood, or like you just don’t fit in? Is socializing painful or something you avoid? Is mixing at a party or large group a torturous experience? If so, you could be suffering from social anxiety? People … Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Mental Health, Relationships, social anxiety
Tagged Anxiety, depression, friendship, mental illness, mental-health, motivational, Relationships, Self-Help, social anxiety
Meeting New People
Conversation, How to meet and talk with New People. Useful Opening Questions for Social Skills and sufferers of Social anxiety Continue reading
Posted in Language, Mental Health, Motivational, Self-Help
Tagged Extraversion and introversion, New People, Relationships, social anxiety, social skills
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Negative Social Habits that Impede Communication
Marc and Angel talk about: Cutting out negative habits. This can make it simpler to foster good relationships by getting to the heart of productive communication, so why not start today? 1. Focusing on your inner monologue instead of the … Continue reading
Posted in Community, education, Mental Health, Motivational, Self-Help
Tagged communication, motivational, negative habits, Relationships, Self-Help, social anxiety, social skills
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Killing Negativity – Thinking Negatively? Why Do We Do It to Ourselves? – continued from previous post
Why do we think negatively when we know better? Because thinking negatively, expecting “the worst,” seeing the downside of positive situations, and even downright expecting failure, all convey a kind of backwards-thinking, emotional insurance policy.Sometimes, as foolish as it sounds, … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Health, Mental Health, Motivational
Tagged mental-health, Motivation, negative thinking, Self-Help, social anxiety
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Thinking Negatively? Why Do We Do It to Ourselves?
Why do we think negatively when we know better?
Because thinking negatively, expecting “the worst,” seeing the downside of positive situations, and even downright expecting failure, all convey a kind of backwards-thinking, emotional insurance policy. It goes something like, “If I expect a tragedy, then I won’t be disappointed when it takes place.”
Our desire to want to be right is another common reason we subconsciously choose negative thinking. Sometimes, as foolish as it sounds, we would rather be right about our negative predictions than have a positive outcome prove us wrong. And since negative thinking leads to negative actions, or no action at all in many cases, by thinking negatively we create a self-fulfilling prediction for ourselves. In other words, we think negatively, predict a negative outcome, act negatively, and then receive a negative outcome that fulfills our prediction. Continue reading
Posted in education, Health, Mental Health, Motivational, Self-Help
Tagged mental-health, motivational, negative thinking, Negative thoughts, Self-Help, social anxiety, thinking
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Comparison is a Dirty Word
It is all too common. We make comparisons, with other people around us, other people who we perceive to be more confident, more successful, happier, than we are. It is a trap that perpetuates an internal struggle with insecurities. Continue reading
Posted in Health, Mental Health, Motivational, Self-Help
Tagged insecurity, mental-health, Self-Help, social anxiety, social phobia
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Extending one’s Social Network – NB Social Anxiety Sufferers
One of the best investments you can make in yourself is to take a genuine interest in other people. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you. Love and kindness begets love and kindness. Continue reading
Posted in Community, Mental Health
Tagged community, friendships, mental-health, Relationships, social anxiety
Social Anxiety and Self rejection
Social Anxiety – a defense mechanism or “acting out”? Does the action of avoiding social contact give the sufferer the illusion of control? Acting out is a psychological term referring to defense mechanisms and self-control, meaning to perform an action … Continue reading
Posted in Mental Health
Tagged acting out, mental-health, social anxiety, tantrums
Abriged from Marc and Angel. Be in the moment – Be happy.
Once your mindset changes, everything on
the outside will change along with it.
―Steve Maraboli
An effective mindset is one that makes the best use of available resources – your time, energy and efforts – and uses them to create positive change. It’s not about trying to do everything and be everything; it’s making the very best of what you have while enjoying the process of living.
Here are seven effective traits and behaviors of such a mindset: Continue reading
Posted in Community, Health, Mental Health
Tagged Anger, Anxiety, depression, Happiness, Positive thinking, sadness, self belief, self control, social anxiety
More Wise Advice from Marc and Angel
Life is far more fulfilling when you participate in making positive things happen. The moment you take positive action, your outlook begins to change. When you notice that you’re making real progress on goals that matter to you, the world is suddenly a much more enjoyable place to live in. Continue reading
Posted in Community, Health
Tagged Anxiety, expectations, goals, Happiness, How to be Happy, mental-health, perfectionism, Positive thinking, self belief, social anxiety
