Social Anxiety Anonymous Blog

I struggled with social anxiety for years. I can really understand your pain. My social anxiety was pure misery.

Social Anxiety is tough, but it also really can get better–

My social anxiety is so much better now, I would never have imagined that it could get so much better. Thanks to Social Anxiety Anonymous, my life has improved dramatically.

Through the use the 12 Steps of Social Anxiety Anonymous, I was able to find a completely new way of dealing with my social anxiety problems.

Francis M

Job interviews can be terrifying when you have social anxiety. Here is one of the tools of the Social Anxiety Anonymous program of recovery that can really help–

One thing that is a huge help with this is to focus on service to others.

Social Phobia makes the Social Anxiety sufferer ‘overly aware’ of themselves (in a very anxious way).

The trick to getting out of that is to focus on ‘being of service’ (helping) whoever you are interacting with.

It helps to remind oneself, when going into such a situation–

**”Even in a job interview, I can be of service– for example, here is one trick– Most job interviewers actually want to talk (especially about the problems that they want to interviewee to solve for them if they get the job).”

So you can ‘help’ the interviewer by ‘Listening’ and also asking supportive questions that help the interviewer.

Anyway, this will totally take the focus off of your social anxiety (when we help others we forget about ourselves, and so forget to be anxious).

Helping others is the opposite of self-obsession (which is social phobia, social anxiety).

Here is a really good article on the subject– The Secret of Overcoming Social Anxiety through Service to Others (Ending Self-Obsession)– How Helping Others Can Help to Reduce Social Anxiety