One of the things that can be quite confusing about Social Anxiety Disorder is that it has a couple of names. And people often have trouble distinguishing shyness and social anxiety. So what’s the difference? Social Anxiety: Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is the psychiatric diagnosis and has been used as the official term in the…
Three Types of Jobs for Someone With Social Anxiety by Kyle MacDonald on April 18, 2015 in Social Anxiety at Work I’ve written before about how to deal with social anxiety in the workplace and how to tackle job interviews when you have social anxiety – but what type of jobs should you go for…
Blow Your Own Horn – Interview with Dwight Dilon by Kyle MacDonald on July 22, 2015 In this weeks episode of The Confident Mind I talk to Dwight Dilon, “America’s Authority on Performance Anxiety”, about his career as a professional jazz trombonist, his own struggle with performance anxiety or “stage fright”, and the techniques he…
What is this test? This test is known as the The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS) – a questionnaire developed by Dr. Michael R. Liebowitz, a psychiatrist and researcher. How it works This measure assesses the way that social phobia plays a role in your life across a variety of situations. Read each situation carefully…
Why Addiction is not a Disease – Interview with Marc Lewis by Kyle MacDonald on November 4, 2015 This week on the Confident Mind I talk with Marc Lewis about his new book “The Biology of Desire“. Marc is a neuroscientist and professor of developmental psychology, recently at the University of Toronto, where he taught…
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Comfortable silence. Awkward silence. Thoughtful silence. Angry silence. It might be a myth, but I’ve heard it said that the Native Aleutian people (Eskimos) have 400 words to describe snow. As a therapist we probably have 200 words to describe silence. Generally though, for those who are struggling to cope with social anxiety every day, there…
Listen to the Voices by Kyle MacDonald on August 26, 2015 This week on The Confident Mind, I talk about the quality of the relationship we have with ourselves, and how we are always having a conversation in our head. Mindfulness allows us to listen to the voices in our head, and assess and make changes…
What on Earth is the Amygdala and How Is It Related to Social Anxiety? 2 November 2014 Anxiety, Meditation, Mindfulness / Kyle MacDonald The amygdalae are groups of nuclei in the temporal lobes of our brain which play a crucial role in processing decisions and emotions and consolidating memories. It is well known that the…
There’s no such thing as normal by Kyle MacDonald on December 9, 2015 This week on the Confident Mind I talk about “normal” and how as it’s an abstract concept, no one is actually normal. I explore how we all tend to act like out there, somewhere, are normal people that we are comparing ourselves…