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Sufferers are typically more self-conscious and self-attentive than others. As a result, social phobics tend to limit or remove themselves from situations where they may be subject to evaluation. Sufferers often recognize their fear as excessive or irrational, yet can't seem to break out of the cycle. As such, the diagnosis of social phobia is made only when the fear leads to problems with occupational functioning, social activities, or interpersonal relationships.

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH SOCIAL ANXIETY Some people that suffer from social anxiety, self-consciousness and self-attentive may have been verbally abused as a child from a person of power such as a parent, grand-parent, another family member or a friend of the family. I know this first hand as verbal abuse was a huge part of my young life and because of the abuse I had a difficult time speaking in front of people without feeling that I was being judged by my appearance. I was told that I was getting fat, that I was worthless and would never amount to anything. It took me getting away from the person that was verbally abusing me to realize that there was nothing wrong with me and I was finally able to come out of my shell and began to speak more freely and worry less that people were thinking that I was fat and stupid. After being away from my abuser for about a year I realized that my abuser was the person with the problem not me. If this sounds like something that you or someone you know is experiencing have them read this article and try to help them work through their issues.

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Angst is a Dutch, German, and Scandinavian word for fear or anxiety. It is used in English to describe an intense feeling of emotional strife.

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• "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be." — Abraham Maslow

• "The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man." — B. F. Skinner

• "Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me." — Sigmund Freud

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B. F. Skinner was an American psychologist and author. He conducted pioneering work on experimental psychology and advocated behaviorism, the study of environmental histories of experiencing consequences. He also proposed the widespread use of psychological behavior modification techniques, primarily operant conditioning, in order to improve society and increase human happiness; and as a form of social engineering.

Did you know...

• ...that ASNOVA was a group of architects that linked psychology and architecture by building laboratories and expounding psychological theories?
• ...that Alexander Everett used techniques from the Unity Church and Jose Silva's Silva Mind Control, in his company Mind Dynamics?
• ...that BBC journalist Leonard Miall worked on psychological warfare in New York and San Francisco with the Political Warfare Executive during World War II?
• ...that Peter Birkhäuser was so moved by a moth trapped by a window that he painted its picture, and later analysed his thoughts and corresponded with Carl Jung?
• ...that approximately 1 in 8 of Americans suffer from phobias?

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