Blogpost 5: Living with Social Anxiety Disorder

If you are an employee suffering with social anxiety disorder, you should know that it can make you to adjust to work your life's difficulties. Living with social anxiety disorder can take a toll on your personal and professional life. During and after treatment, it is important to acknowledge the disorder and to use strategies to minimize the negative impact on your life. In this installment of the "day in the life" series, I provide a description of the average "day in the life" of an employee with social anxiety. Perhaps you will see yourself or someone you know in this description.

In this article of Arlin Cuncic of Living with Social Anxiety Disorder that we can live with this and improve ourselves. Managing social anxiety disorder at work can be difficult. If you have been diagnosed with the anxiety disorder, you are probably concerned about the day-to-day impact of the disorder on your career. The good news is that receiving a diagnosis and entering treatment is the first step toward managing your anxiety symptoms. However, there are many specific problems that people with social anxiety will face in the workplace, including the inability to network effectively, fear of attending business social events, problems developing relationships with coworkers, lack of self-confidence, and difficulty speaking up in meetings.

According to the article of Dr. Thomas A. Richards that if a person is motivated to the end of years of crippling anxiety, then comprehensive cognitive behavioral treatment provides methods, techniques and strategies that all combine to lessen anxiety and make the world much more enjoyable.

In my conclusion, only you can decide how best to live with social anxiety. If you have been in treatment, you may simply need to be vigilant about using coping strategies to avoid a relapse of symptoms. Most people will never live completely without social anxiety, but rather achieve a balance in which your anxiety does not negatively affect your daily functioning or place limits on what you can achieve.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.  ~Christian Nevell Bovee

http://socialanxietydisorder.about.com/od/copingwithsad/a/livingwithSAD.htm