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If you can recognize and change the thoughts and beliefs that have created social distress in the past, your social distress will decrease or disappear completely.
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Similarly, with the coming together of thoughts. When we realize and stretch our personality structure that creates social distress, our social distress will quickly recede.
Let's go through specific examples; For example, my father's constant criticism made me believe that I was not good enough about myself. This belief makes me nervous in every social environment I enter, and I experience symptoms such as palpitations and excitement; It is a disaster for me to notice these symptoms from the environment; I avoid social environments now. Based on this model, I can summarize what we do in therapy.
1-First of all, noticing the thoughts and beliefs that cause social distress and neutralizing them.
2-Removing the trauma, if any, that causes social distress. to turn the negative belief it creates into a positive one.
3- In order to prevent overstimulation of our nervous system or to focus on the moment, learning techniques such as breathing, meditation, movement from the center, Mindfulness, especially during stressful waiting periods and the ability to move comfortably in social environments.
4- Using affirmations regularly in order to get rid of the conditioning in the social environment allows the lower brain to relax and reduce social anxiety after a certain period of time.
5- Polar personality makes us sensitive to social anxiety. Realizing its structure and understanding how the poles we judge make us nervous triggers positive change. It should not be forgotten that those who judge are afraid of being judged.
6-Those who experience social phobia do not use many of their rights due to their rigid personality structure (being angry, being ordinary, not caring, etc.). Using these rights regularly relieves the above cycle and reduces social distress.
7-Exercises to overcome can be implemented, especially by writing or by doing experiments in daily life. Working on it desensitizes the sympathetic system (how many battle centers in the brain) and relaxes the person.
8-It should not be forgotten that it is very easy to understand with a short awareness exercise. Awareness alone is not sufficient for the treatment of social phobia. In addition, regular exercises and strategies lasting about 1-2 months are needed for the lower brain to change. When necessary, techniques such as EMDR can speed up the process.
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