| Social anxiety, what is it? How does a person become | | | | The primal brain, this is at the center of our brains, it |
| phobic of social situations and other people? Inevitably | | | | controls responses to the 4 F's: flight, fight, food and |
| the more important question relates to social anxiety | | | | fornicate. The cerebral cortex, this is an area of the |
| treatment. Once you are a sufferer how do you go | | | | brain that surrounds the outside. When you look at |
| about treating it? | | | | most diagrams of the brain, around the outside there is |
| These are all great questions, and if you're asking | | | | a "veiny" texture this is the cerebral cortex. The cortex |
| them all then you're well on your way to finding a | | | | itself is an area about 2mm thick and has around 5 or |
| successful treatment. One of the major factors that | | | | 6 different layers. The layer most important to social |
| determines whether someone can be treated for | | | | anxiety treatment is the creative/adaptive layer. This is |
| social anxiety, is an openness and desire to change, | | | | where all your problem solving abilities lie. |
| without these any attempts by anyone are doomed to | | | | Where problems occur is when there is an imbalance |
| failure. | | | | between the creative/adaptive layer of the brain and |
| The reason for this is not hard to understand, a person | | | | the primal brain. People go through experiences that |
| is in control of their own mind and brain, and if they | | | | cause them to get trapped in the primal brain which |
| don't want to change aspects of who they are then | | | | means they'll be running off fight and flight responses |
| the brain and mind will not accept any but the most | | | | with no access to the creative/adaptive to allow them |
| ardent and evasive attempt to do so. | | | | to think their way out of a problem. This is why we |
| Social anxiety just like any other phobia, and just like a | | | | have irrational fears. |
| great many mental conditions is caused by an out of | | | | In my own journey to escape social anxiety I had to |
| balance emotional reaction in the brain. The brain has | | | | find a treatment that allowed the balance of the |
| many different parts, for many different tasks. In | | | | creative/adaptive and primal brains to be restored, |
| coming up with a good social anxiety treatment you | | | | after that it was simply a case of living life again. Being |
| need to take into account what actually goes on in the | | | | able to do things I was never able to before. |
| workings of the brain. | | | | |