Social Anxiety Support

misticknight · 03-21-2009, 12:26 AM

just wondering if i should get this my therapist recomended it, not for SA but for help with my overthinking of situations. she gave me a few pages, printed off to read and i liked it, but i liked the last book i got judging by a few pages only and it didn't help me at all in the end. i just dont wanna lay down $20 on this and find its the same old "think positive" crap that, might help a normal person, but not someone with extreme social phobia.

screwjack · 03-21-2009, 10:22 AM

It's a pretty good book but I think you can get the gist of it by reading it once. Why don't you check it out from the library and read it first before you buy?

sadsurvivor · 03-21-2009, 10:38 AM

That is a popular book and it might be checked out at the library. If it is, try reserving it. You can also get it cheaper at amazon.com. I haven't read it.

striker · 03-21-2009, 11:52 AM

There is an aspect of 'exploring the self' in pretty all religions or spiritual traditions.

This is the exploration of the idea as to what happens when you shut your mind/thoughts and eventually get past your ego.

This books covers that aspect.

So in other words, its a secular version of the wisdom that spiritual traditions try to show us.

misticknight · 03-21-2009, 03:18 PM

i checked my library to see if they had it and they didn't nor did it show up on any of there computers so i dont think any library near me has it. stuff it i'll get it, if i dont find it helps i'll try selling it.

screwjack · 03-22-2009, 11:08 AM

Since they don't have it at the library why don't you go to a bookstore like borders and read a little bit, if not all of it there. This is what I used to do before getting a card out at the library.

About the book itself, it really isn't thinking positively so much as accepting things for how they are no matter what the situation. Hence the title.

03-21-2009, 12:26 AM	#1 (permalink)
misticknight Status: SAS Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 33	Anyone read the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle? just wondering if i should get this my therapist recomended it, not for SA but for help with my overthinking of situations. she gave me a few pages, printed off to read and i liked it, but i liked the last book i got judging by a few pages only and it didn't help me at all in the end. i just dont wanna lay down $20 on this and find its the same old "think positive" crap that, might help a normal person, but not someone with extreme social phobia. __________________ Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why...I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

03-21-2009, 10:22 AM	#2 (permalink)
screwjack Status: SAS Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Pacific NW Gender: Male Posts: 986	It's a pretty good book but I think you can get the gist of it by reading it once. Why don't you check it out from the library and read it first before you buy? __________________ But what exactly is social anxiety? It’s the experience of apprehension or worry that arises from the possibility, either real or imagined, that one will be evaluated or judged in some manner by others.

03-21-2009, 03:18 PM	#5 (permalink)
misticknight Status: SAS Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 33	i checked my library to see if they had it and they didn't nor did it show up on any of there computers so i dont think any library near me has it. stuff it i'll get it, if i dont find it helps i'll try selling it. __________________ Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why...I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

03-22-2009, 11:08 AM	#6 (permalink)
screwjack Status: SAS Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Pacific NW Gender: Male Posts: 986	Since they don't have it at the library why don't you go to a bookstore like borders and read a little bit, if not all of it there. This is what I used to do before getting a card out at the library. About the book itself, it really isn't thinking positively so much as accepting things for how they are no matter what the situation. Hence the title. __________________ But what exactly is social anxiety? It’s the experience of apprehension or worry that arises from the possibility, either real or imagined, that one will be evaluated or judged in some manner by others.

03-21-2009, 10:38 AM	#3 (permalink)
sadsurvivor Status: SAS Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Gender: Female Posts: 188	That is a popular book and it might be checked out at the library. If it is, try reserving it. You can also get it cheaper at amazon.com. I haven't read it.

03-21-2009, 11:52 AM	#4 (permalink)
striker Status: SAS Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Gender: Male Posts: 142	There is an aspect of 'exploring the self' in pretty all religions or spiritual traditions. This is the exploration of the idea as to what happens when you shut your mind/thoughts and eventually get past your ego. This books covers that aspect. So in other words, its a secular version of the wisdom that spiritual traditions try to show us.