Which Social Anxiety Treatment Is The Most Effective?

Aside from the ones I will talk about here, people have found Hypnosis, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprogramming (EMDR) to be effective.

There are many more, but I won’t go into all the options out there. Instead I will give you the most widely acknowledged one that has been proven to be effective for social phobia.

I’ll then advice you on a treatment for social anxiety that is rapidly gaining popularity, and I’ll finally give you the in my opinion best, and most effective social anxiety treatment out there.

Most Recognized To Be Effective Social Anxiety Treatment

The therapy uncovers negative thinking, irrational beliefs and unwanted behaviors that cause your negative emotions.

These negative thoughts, beliefs and behaviors first get identified. Once that’s achieved the approach is to replace these with more rational, positive ones.

This in turn changes the way you think about social situations that give you anxiety. And as a result you'll feel better, can think more clearly, and make better decisions.

Aside from that, CBT teaches you how to control the physical symptoms of your anxiety through various relaxation and breathing exercises.

And CBT also focuses on exposure therapy.

This is where you will systematically desensitize yourself to social situations you fear.

Together with your therapist you think of a social situation that you might fear.

For example saying hi to a colleague. Before facing the situation in real life you work with your therapist to minimize the amount of anxiety you experience when thinking about the fearful situation.

Then once you feel confident enough to face it in real life, you take the step and "expose" yourself to the situation.

Once you feel comfortable doing that, you go on to the next step. You slowly but surely expose yourself to more and more social situations. But you get less anxious and more and more confident the more situations you are able to face.

An additional form of social anxiety treatment in CBT is group therapy for social anxiety.

Here you practice role-playing and other methods to improve your social skills. This lessens your anxiety as you feel more competent and confident in your social abilities.

Rapidly Becoming Popular Social Anxiety Treatment

It helps you to change your relationship with painful thoughts and feelings.

ACT assists you in uncovering your core values; he things in life that are important to you that motivate, guide and inspire you.

It teaches you to be in the present moment and to “just notice” and accept your reactions to the situation. And it then teaches you to ACT. To take action in alignment with your core values.

Now this might seem impossible for you, to just deal with the feelings and accept it.

That’s why ACT teaches you mindfulness skills to deal with the painful thoughts and feelings.

These mindfulness skills teach you to:

• Distance yourself from negative thoughts and emotions and let them go
• Accept your painful thoughts and emotions and allow them to show up and then let them go without getting wrapped up in them. It basically teaches you to stop fighting them and just notice them, accept them and let them go away again.
• Be present and have an open and curious attitude

Once you get good at these mindfulness skills you can more easily activate your "observing self".

“What is my observing self?!”

Well, you basically have the part of your brain that is always thinking; the thinking brain. It is responsible for all your thoughts, beliefs, judgments, memories, fantasies etc.

And then you have the part of your brain that is the "observing self". It is the part of you that can step outside of the thinking part and then observe what it's doing. It has the ability to notice whatever you are thinking and feeling in the moment.

When you are in the "observing self" mode, negative thoughts and feelings have way less impact and influence over you. You are merely observing them and you are not wrapped up and overwhelmed by them. This allows you to make the right decisions according to your values.

So this social anxiety treatment helps you to ACT.

Best And Most Effective Form Of Social Anxiety Treatment

It’s a funky looking technique, it looks pretty dumb. Which makes it very difficult for people to believe that it actually works. But then again, that’s because of your belief system.

I was extremely skeptical in the beginning myself as well, but I have applied it to myself successfully, have found scientific proof that it works, have undergone training and have healed over a hundred people of several different emotional issues. Including social phobia’s...

Trust me, this stuff really works!

EFT is a psychological form of acupuncture. But in EFT there are no needles involved.

Instead, you use our fingertips to tap on specific meridian points on your body.

EFT combines elements of cognitive therapy, somatic intervention, and brief exposure therapy.

The premise of EFT is that "the cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's energy system."

And when you tap on specific meridian points on your body while being focused in on your "problem", the disruption in your energy system gets balanced out and due to that the negative emotions disappears.

I know, you now probably think I lost it...

...Or that I'm some weird airy-fairy woo-woo guy that believes in ghosts and fairy tales.

But seriously, this weird technique is an amazing form of social anxiety treatment. In fact, I believe it to be the most effective form of social anxiety treatment out there.

In closing...

If you can afford it, please do yourself a favor and get some help!

And of course, make sure you find a skilled therapist. One with experience in solving social anxiety disorder.

Set aside some time to investigate if your therapist of choice can really help you.

Because the effectiveness of whatever form of social anxiety treatment you choose to take is always dependent on the skill of the therapist.

So make sure you find a skilled one!

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