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How You'll Benefit If You Stop
Seeking Treatment For Social
Anxiety Disorder

If you stop seeking treatment for social anxiety disorder (such as therapy), you'll benefit because you'll be using one less anxiety-encouraging behaviour.

By seeking such treatment, you'd behave in ways that would actually make the anxiety worse...

My article Normal Social Anxiety Treatments Don't Work explains that activities such as discussing your anxiety only serve to maintain the anxiety or make it worse.

The real solution lies in treating social anxiety disorder by yourself, without that well-intentioned (but flawed) help from others.

I know it feels good to explain your
problems to a therapist, but it's
only short-term relief!

There's a sense of relief to be had from going to a smart, kind therapist, and explaining your feelings to them. I know because I've done it myself.

The problem is, doing that builds on your anxious behaviours - the ones that keep the anxiety strong. If you don't understand these behaviours yet, check my article The Cause of Social Anxiety Disorder.

What helps is self-treatment for social anxiety disorder. You can even start overcoming social anxiety now, by clicking the link that I so elegantly implemented into this sentence!

If you've already been seeking professional
treatment for social anxiety disorder,
that's ok - it's a normal response

The natural thing to do is to get others to treat social phobia. Like I said, I've done it and got the T-shirt. I was desperate and I went for help - no shame on my part whatsoever.

Understand that looking to others is natural - it's what anyone would do and it's completely OK.

For the record, others can give effective help for most problems - but not social anxiety disorder. With SAD, you need to learn all about it and take it on by yourself. This is because as I explained in the 2nd paragraph, other people can accidentally hinder you more than help you.