A way to beat social anxiety, and shyness, and the fear to approach, AFCs wanted!

[G0gL2000]

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[CrazyVatoLoco]

I have lots of SA...interested in what your findings will be

 

[G0gL2000]

I have lots of SA...interested in what your findings will be

then PM and tell me about it. the method will be developed based on wat is learned from you SA guys.

 

[G0gL2000]

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then PM and tell me about it. the method will be developed based on wat is learned from you SA guys.

 

[AMF]

Your enthusiasm for this project is strangely creepy. Cult?

 

[G0gL2000]

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[monotone]

are you still gonna do this or have you already finished or something?

[email protected]

i have a lot of sa

 

[guittarjedi]

Ross Jefferies has a technique on his basic course where you find the source of the shy feeling and imagine pushing it away from you. This helped me alot. I'm no longer afraid to approach, but I often run out of things to say and that sometimes creates anxiety in me.

 

[NoMoreMisterNiceGuy]

Originally posted by G0gL2000
Im going to try to develop a method that can overcome the fear of approaching women and social anxieties

try ? .... do DJ's say TRY ? change that frame of mind of yours dude ...your not gonna try

you WILL develop a method ...

 

[ScrewIt]

Originally posted by Sazuki
If you suffer from social anxiety im quite sure you have been emotionally abused by your parents.

maybe. I have a nerdy friend i knew since j.h.s. and all he does is home & college. Whenever he's home, he will always be staring off into the comp doing something. Games, anime, etc.
Although i've tried getting him to get out of his anti-social habit by inviting him out to do something, he declines.
About a week ago, he tells me his problems and points out this and that his body. doenst like his height, his weight, his spined is messed up, slow reaction, he's weak when he walks..etc.

This is probably what fuels his social anxiety, low confidence, and low self-esteem. he's very self-conscious of himself and worries a lot.

Although when i knew him from j.h.s. he was already the nerdy type that plays comp and stays home mostly, but since then, he goes out less and less, and now he hangs out with no one, but he has friends.

now to your point, his dad did somewhat pressures him to doing great in school and to get into a good college as he is now (he's strict). but that wasnt a real factor of his social insecurities. he's doing it to himself by being self conscious and staying home and with this, cutting his social contact to a low.

i know some moms can be very over secure of their children, which might be a factor to social norms, as not allowing them to go out and have new experiences. But it's possible to surpass this

i'm taking pysch this semester, and according to statistics, most people posess some form of social phobia. it can range from a miniscule phobia or large phobia.

 

[david90]

What are your plans on studying AFCs? How are you going to conduct your research?

Anyway, my parent never abused me. In fact they love me very much and provided me with everything. RIght now they are paying for my tutition, car, insurance, gas etc.. Yet i'm an AFC. Why? I think it is because they never taught me any social related skills. In fact, they don't even want me to have friends. They just love it when i'm sitting home all alone on the weekends. My dad loves me too but he never taught me anything about life. If you ask me what i've learned from him in the past 21 years, I honestly couldn't tell u a thing. Not having abusive parents doesn't mean ur coming out as a DJ.

 

[Interpol]

Originally posted by Sazuki
If you suffer from social anxiety im quite sure you have been emotionally abused by your parents.

I for one disagree with this...I have somewhat minor SA (I have much more control and understanding of it since I started coming here) but it still effects me sometimes...And my parents have always been very supporting and certainly not at all emotionally abusive.

 

[Mr. Delicious]

Originally posted by david90
In fact, they don't even want me to have friends. They just love it when i'm sitting home all alone on the weekends.

Thats not physical abuse but thats definately not helpful to you mentally at all.

 

[Bonhomme]

3 things have worked for me

The main things that have worked for me are these:

1) Straighten out my boichemistry. I used to be pretty neurotic, but it turns out it was mostly due to food allergies, of all things. Cutting out the allergic foods improved my natural mindset immensely. That and reading about what foods ad supplements to take to boost the mood-elevating brain chemicals (mainly B-vitamins, vitamin C, and some minerals, such as magnesium and a bit of zinc -- must not take too much, though).

Weight training can also give your testosterone levels a boost, which will make you more assertive and attractive to women. Improving your attitude this way can make it internally easier for you to approach, and make you more attractive, so your approaches will have more success.

2) Working on overall image and presentation. How I look and carry myself. The more attractive you become, the more receptive people are to your approaches, and the more often they approach you.

3) Getting a feel for eye contact and the signals people exchange. With a bit of practice and experience it will become much more clear who wants you to approach them. It's obviously way easier to approach when you know you'll be received positively.

IMNSHO, there's way too little emphasis here on making it easier for your approaches to be successful in the first place.

 

[animal crackers]

I'm in on your study.
I believe I have some form of social anxiety disorder.
I have a hard time getting people to actually like me. I try to make the effort sometimes in conversation, but i usually say something boring or not really meaningful.

My problem is that nobody really tries to talk to me about things, or ask my opinion about anything.

My parents were never abusive to me. Early childhood I was always quiet and never really said much. This behavior I believe was reinforced during years of school, by the teachers. I never acted up, and therefore never got in trouble = positive reinforcement.

I also don't think my parents themselves are very good in social situations. My dad doesn't have any friends, my mom really only has a few friends from her childhood.

I have had a few big bad experiences where I was rejected from groups or relationships, and the rejections were all from faults of my own (being lazy, being controlling and jealous) but this makes it harder to develop new relationships.

I believe I have to change my personality entirely and love myself before others can love me too. I just would really like to know HOW to do that.

 

[mrblack]

did the orginator of this thread ever conduct his project?
G0gL2000?

 

[SamMalone]

In high school and middle school I was EXTREMELY shy and had no close friends because of it. I started lifting weights and *forced* myself to move into the dorms in college and have made lots of friends since, and my condition has improved tremendously, but I still don't get women and also get nervous around them - even ones I think are ugly or boring. I'd like to know of the results of said experiment.