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Last weekend, I was enjoying watching my Rugby Union team, the Auckland Blues, play the Cape Town Stormers, from South Africa.  There are a fair few South Africans who have figured out New Zealand is an awesome place to live, and so the Stormers had some very vocal supporters despite it being an away game…

Is Our Internal Voice a Social Anxiety Friend or Foe? 30 September 2014 Cognitive Based Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Social Anxiety / Kyle MacDonald We may not always be aware of it, but we go about our daily lives against a background of running commentary. Some of it is practical and useful like “I’ve got…

How Big Bird Helped Mr. Snuffleupagus Overcome Shyness by Kyle MacDonald in Shyness I loved Sesame Street when I was young. But I remember Snuffie (full name Aloysius Snuffleupagus) was pretty shy for a long time.  When I was a kid he used to hide away and everyone thought he was Big Birds “imaginary friend”….

Social Anxiety in College: How to Cope With Small Groups 14 September 2015 College / Kyle MacDonald Sometimes one of the easiest places to hide is in a crowd: all those people worried about leading their own lives are highly unlikely to be thinking too much about anyone else jostling amongst them. While some people…

Decision Making and Avoidance Behavior – How to Know the Difference? by Kyle MacDonald in Avoidance You might think that the answer to this question is obvious: in the first case, you make a decision, in the second, you don’t. But how about decisions that aren’t really decisions and are actually avoidance strategies; how about…

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