Social Anxiety Blogs

The Willing Student

I strongly believe that SAD can be cured without medication. I personally suffered with SAD and many other forms of anxiety for many years and have been able to successfully eliminate these conditions from my life.
From my experience, SAD has roots in some area (s) of our past that we have not fully accepted or dealt with and unless we figure out what that area is, then it is hard sometimes to recover, but recovery is possible.

Since your boyfriend has already opened up to you, thats a good thing. What you need is to be patient with him, create a good environment in which he feels safe to share more of what he is experiencing. There is a form of therapy called 'Talk Therapy'- which is simply allowing someone to speak their mind without being judgemental. The more you allow your boyfriend to feel safe around you, he will slowly begin to feel safe around more and more people and before you know it- he is cured and ready to enjoy life without any boundaries. All the best.

Hello! I am also new here. I've also had social anxiety for a long time. I used to think that I needed some kind of doctor or medication, that it was something I couldn't control. But now i think that is all bull, I learned that I absolutely can control it, and the way to do that is to focus on building your sense of self-worth, self-esteem, and self-love/acceptance. It also ruined many relationships for me. But it also made me realize who really loved me and who didn't, the ones who really care, don't care whether I had it or not and accepted me exactly as I was. But if you want to help him feel better, support and love him just as he is now, the more you pressure him to change just makes him feel worse. I am proud to say that I no longer have social anxiety, I overcame it through reading lots of self-help and psychology books, and counseling myself, and just changing the way I felt about myself. But its a long and gradual process so be very patient with him, it cannot change over night.