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A team of psychologists reveal their proven program for overcoming social phobia. They provide questionnaires to help you analyze your symptoms and plan your personalized program, coping skills, cognitive-behavioral techniques, real life examples and clear guidelines.
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This self-help guide effectively uses four case studies to demonstrate the strategies and techniques recommended by the author and lives up to its promise as a Step-by-Step Guide for Overcoming Shyness and Social Phobia. To order click here




Psychology professor Carducci defines shyness as a "personality trait" rather than as an emotional disorder or mental illness. In fact, he asserts, nearly everyone suffers from shyness to some degree and at some time in life. For some, due to combinations of biology, environment, experience and psychology, shyness can cause a lot of trouble. Acknowledging the handicap this trait can become, particularly in current Western culture, Carducci attempts "not to turn introverts into extroverts" but rather to teach readers to live a "successfully shy life." Beginning with a questionnaire to determine the reader's level of shyness and its impact on daily life, Carducci suggests many techniques for coping with specific social, workplace and personal situations, including meetings, interviews, dates, speeches, presentations, networking and party small talk. He recommends keeping a "shy life journal" in which to record experiences and resolutions for "expanding your comfort zone." Carducci also includes descriptions of pertinent brain activity and useful information for parents and teachers of shy children.  To order click here




Feeling Good is not just for the clinically depressed. It has sold three million copies because it trains you to sail the more mundane seas of daily mood and emotion, and provides valuable distinctions such as the difference between genuine sadness and depression. The former is a part of being human, enlarges our experience of life and brings self-knowledge, while the latter suffocates by closing our view of life's possibilities. 

Recognize what causes your mood swings, Nip negative feelings in the bud, Deal with guilt, Handle hostility and criticism, Overcome love and approval addiction, Beat "do-nothingism", Defuse anger, Overcome perfectionism, Cope with stress, Avoid the downward spiral of depression, Build self-esteem, Feel good every day
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This book suggests relaxation exercises and confidence-boosting measures, which can help to make blushing less severe, and minimize the impact that it has on life. By teaching ways of coping with embarrassment and social difficulties, Robert Edelmann helps people overcome the barriers to a successful social life and career.
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This step-by-step guide to overcoming fear of social interaction provides a comprehensive overview and includes behavioral skill-building exercises that have been proven effective in most cases.
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Happiness and success are habits. So are failure and misery. But negative habits can be changed--and Psycho-Cybernetics shows you how! With over 30 million copies sold since its original publication in 1960, Psycho-Cybernetics has been used by athletes, entrepreneurs, college students, and many others, to achieve life-changing goals--from losing weight to dramatically increasing their income--finding that success is not only possible but remarkably simple. Now updated to include present-day anecdotes and current personalities.
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Shyness only begins to cover the range of social anxieties and social phobias covered by Schneier, assistant director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and Welkowitz, a research psychologist also at the institute. There are fears of eating in public and of public bathrooms as well as fears of public speaking, dating, talking to the boss. There's probably more here than the average shy person looking for help wants, as about two thirds of the book is about the factors underlying shyness: biology, evolution, socialization, culture, sociology, psychology and so forth. There is also a chapter composed of tests that, while of excellent provenance, strangely make no distinctions between different sorts of social anxiety. The practical chapters that follow are worthwhile, especially when they stick to solid medical advice or therapy; social advice such as encouraging the wallflower to use "seemingly corny" openers?for example, "Have I seen you somewhere before?" and "Come here often?"?is less so. In a system that prods readers to set specific, realistic goals each week and plot out how to attain them, the authors encourage exposure to unnerving situations and the developing of positive responses to replace (usually unacknowledged) negative ones. Also helpful is concrete advice to parents of shy children and a rundown of the effects and side effects of beta-blockers, benzodiazepines (e.g., Valium), SSRIs (e.g., Prozac) and MAOIs (e.g., Nardil).
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Dr. Raj Persaud's illuminating new book is aimed at anyone who wants to stay free of psychological problems--whatever their current state of mind. Focusing on prevention, and drawing on more than700 international references, Dr. Persaud explains the "tactics" that will help strengthen your psyche and reduce your vulnerability to emotional problems--for good. To order click here


Of course I have to recommend my own book about how to solve your problem with blushing for good. Includes this:  How to change your thinking patterns and stop blushing. Mental training program. Learn how to relax. Personality test. Recommended clinics and doctors. Recommended medicines, and addresses to websites that don't need a prescription to deliver your medicine of choice. Helpful products listed, along with resellers and addresses. Tips and techniques, with real life examples, and lots of more.