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Social Phobia Test | Social Phobia, The Brain And Self-Perception

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Are You Afraid Of Being Judged By Others?

Scientists have found that people who suffer from social phobia respond in a different way to negative comments about themselves, than other people do.

What characterizes this phobia is fearing and avoiding social situations, and fearing being judged negatively by other people, the authors say. It is without a doubt the most frequent anxiety disorder among the general population.

If you have social phobia there’s also a higher risk for depression and other forms of self-destructive behaviors. We need other people in order to feel good. We need a social network to function properly as human beings.

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Studies have shown that persons with the phobia tend to have an increased emotional responsiveness to social interactions.

This research published in the Archives of General Psychiatry (Oct 2008) was done using brain imaging technology, also known as MRI.

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How This Study Was Made

This study was carried out by doing fMRI-brain scans.

First they scanned the brains of 17 individuals who were socially phobic but wasn’t taking any medication. And then they compared those to an equal number of control subjects who were of the same age, sex and IQ, but who did not have any social phobia.

The brain scans were taken while the test subject read various statements – positive, negative or neutral. “You are lovely”, could be an example of positive statement. “You look awful” – negative. “You are human” – neutral. The statements could refer either to themselves or someone else, for example “She is beautiful”.

What Did The Results Show?

When people with social anxiety disorder (phobia) read negative comments about themselves you could see the blood flow to the amygdala and prefrontal cortex increase. These are parts of the brain that are associated with a person’s self-concept but also fear, fight-or-flight emotions and stress.

The authors’ conclusion was that the medial prefrontal cortex and amgydala, in connection with each other, might play a crucial role in the development of generalized social phobia.

So having a negative attitude toward yourself can contribute to social phobia.

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David D. Jackson

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Anxiety Cure – Change or Die, Book Review Part 1

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

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If you are looking for an anxiety cure to help you overcome panic attacks and returning to normal everyday living, you need to start with a crash course in behavioral change.

We can call this class, Behavior Change 101.

In this and in coming posts I’m going to review of some of the key concepts in the amazing book “Change or Die” (2008) by Alan Deutschman. I will review the 3 keys to change, that are covered in the book, and specifically, how they relate to people suffering from panic attacks and anxiety disorders. They are in their own way a form of anxiety cure. And also look at why the common approach of trying to use Facts, Fear or Force (the three F’s) to motivate people to change doesn’t work!

I think you will find all of this VERY interesting…

Change or Die on Amazon!Today, let’s start with a simple question: Why should you care about any of this? And why was the book Change or Die written?

Well, the book takes it’s start at a private conference at Rockefeller University, in Novemeber 2004, an elite medical research center in New York City.

The first topic they bring up for discussion at this conference is what to do about the growing crisis in health care (an industry that in the US alone consumes more than $2.1 trillion a year – that’s more than a sventh of the entire economy). Despite all of the spending in this area we are still not feeling any healthier. And we’re not making enough progress toward preventing the illnesses that kill us, such as heart disease, stroke and cancer. (For people suffering from panic attacks, the search for an anxiety cure often turns to the internet).

The dream team of experts that took the stage at Rockefeller University didn’t hold any long-awaited answers for how to solve this problem. As they spoke to this small group of insiders they were surpringly candid. They said the crisis in health care had not changed for decades. And no one in the medical establishment could figure out what to do about it.

Dr. Raphael “Ray” Levey, the man who founded the Global Medical Forum, told the audience:

“A relatively small precentage of the population consumes the vast majority of the health care budget for diseases that are very well known and by and large behavioral.” Which means, people are sick becuase of how they choose to live their lives, not because of factors that are beyond their control, such as the genes they were born with.

Levey continued by saying that: “Even as far back as when I was in medical school [back in 1955] many articles demonstrated that 80% of the health care budget was consumed by five behavioral issues“:

1. Too much smoking

2. Too much drinking.

3. Too much eating.

4. Too much stress, and

5. Not enough exercise.

And this is a major reason why learning how behavior change works is so important to your physcial, mental and emotional health and well being. And how it can help you if your looking to find an anxiety cure, start first by looking at your patterns of thought, feeling and behavior. And how these create virtually every thing in your life.

What provoked Alan Deutschman to write the book “Change or Die”?

Well, before I tell you. Ask yourself this question: What if you were given the choice to change or die? For real. We are talking actual life and death here. What if a well educated and informed authority, such as a doctor told you that you had to make enduring change in the way you think, feel and act – could you do it? And that if you didn’t your time on this earth would soon end, a lot sooner than it otherwise had to. Could you really change then, when change mattered most?

Yes, you say? Try again. Yes? Don’t bet on it.

That’s what the experts say. The expert say that you wouldn’t. You don’t believe me, you want odds? The odds that experts are laying down – the scientifically studided odds – are: Nine to one. That’s nine to one against you, not for you. The experts say 90% of people don’t change.

How do you like them odds?

In the next couple of posts, we’ll look at how you can turn all this around by learning what actually works when it comes to creating postive lasting change in your life.

No matter what challenges you are facing, be it anxiety, panic attacks or anything else. The 3 keys to change will apply, as you will learn more about shortly…

Talk soon,

David Jackson

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