Social anxiety/plans

[nyecamden]

I'm going to be writing about my social anxiety intermittently because I want to try and do something to sort it out. I think that writing in this jounal will be almost as good as seeing a counsellor, there's the possibility of feedback and I have less limitations on time than I would do if I was seeing someone for 50 minutes once a week. I'll put

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[badasstronaut]

I went to a NHS anxiety management course last year and didn't find it at all helpful.

[nyecamden]

I had the same with an anger managment course a few years ago.

Worrying that I'm not good enough consists of a major factor in my social anxiety, I think that I should be able to do something to change that.

[badasstronaut]

Well, I guess the first question is 'not good enough for what?'

My anxiety stuff is a lot less specific, and the course was all geared about people who had anxieties about things, ie they knew what the things were. I have a range of associations, but it's less clear cut. In any case, I'm mostly pretty good at managing it myself these days, but last year was an especially horrible year.