Hi can any 1 help my friend has a problem she has to drink to get confidence to talk to others?
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While Social Anxiety Disorder is what many people belive this condition to be, it is actually termed Social Phobia, and is classified as an Anxiety Disorder. Basically, individuals with SP fear embarassment, humiliation, or judgment by others in social situations and accordingly either avoid these interactions or will endure them with marked distress.
Her best bet is to seek cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) from a licensed psychologist. This treatment will help her to evaluate and change her catastrophic thinking style and will systematically expose her to different social situations with the goal of having her become comfortable with this type of interaction. CBT therapists can be easily found at www.abct.org, which is the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Thearpies. These individuals are well known, well respected, and have vast training in CBT. I with her the best of luck!
That is called Social Anxiety Disorder. The best place to start to get the person to admit they have a problem. Talk to her about it. Tell her there is help out there. You just to be able to ask for it.
You would need to see if there is an under laying reason for this lack of confidence, Such as has she been abused in any way or made to feel inferior to others.
A lot of people do have a lack of confidence ,To beat this the drinking has to stop ,get her to practise talking to family members or Friends first with them listening only then introduce fun argument's and she must try and respond and be assertive
Or she should attend a confidence course to learn to be assertive and confident
The best way to start to talk to others is take a deep breath and then start talking and don`t stare in to their eyes ,look just below the eyes as the eyes can put people off
See social phobia, at http://www.ezy-build.net.nz/~shaneris... on page 9, and print/refer her.
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