Daily Archives: May 4, 2009

Booklet About Social Anxiety Disorder

The National Institute of Health has put together a booklet about social anxiety disorder (SAD) that can be downloaded from the NIMH website. This booklet contains information such as:

general information about social anxiety disorder
common symptoms
how to get help
causes and risk factors
personal stories
The booklet is a public domain document to be used for the improvement of public health. In addition to various public health uses, I can see it being a useful ice-breaker when trying to talk to someone who may have SAD.

Avoidance Behaviors

Avoidance behaviors are those dysfunctional things that you do, or do not do, to manage feelings of anxiety in social or performance situations.

Read the full article at Social Anxiety Disorder Blog
By Arlin Cuncic, About.com Guide to Social Anxiety Disorder

Children’s Mental Health Week May 2nd – 9th

It is my pleasure to give away a copy of the book “I can Fix it” part of the Iris the Dragon Series.
Here is the winning entry

We have an amazing 7 year old who has been dx with anxiety disorder and is in the process of being dx with Asperger’s or somewhere else on the ASD. In the past, he has not been able to participate in extra activities such as rec league sports; his anxiety levels were entirely too high. This year, I told him he could play soccer if he wanted and he did. We told him soccer was Tuesday night and Saturday morning. We never made a big deal about any of it like we have in the past, just started preparing him for the schedule change and when the time came got him dressed and left the house. Our wonderful little boy has been playing soccer successfully with very little anxiety for 4 weeks now!

I truly believe that by keeping it low key, he was able to prepare himself without all of the anxiety that comes with such a socially involved change.

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