Episode 27 - Overcoming Shyness

Shyness starts in early age with rejection, and gets reinforced throughout a persons life. Just as the individual learned this behavior, he or she can unlearn it and learn to be more social.

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• psychology
• psychotherapy
• cognitive
• behavioral
• therapy
• self-help
• depression
• anxiety
• marcos
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• jove
• shyness

[Hummers222]

when i am at school i feel like i am in a prison in my body, never being able to come out. I don't want to be shy at all. I am perfectly fine at home. It is only when I'm at school I am shy.

[mizike1122]

@Hummers222

Shyness comes from insecurity. Try exposing yourself little by little to things that make you anxious at school. If speaking out in class makes you anxious, do it until the anxiety is gone. then try something else. keep doing this and you will see that you will become secure and your shyness will lift

[potatoeization]

thanks for giving this very helpful video i feel more confident now about myself now that i watched this

[mizike1122]

Thank you

[MHarley93]

I'm having trouble introducing myself to people in groups. Since I'm in highschool, it is'nt likely that you can find someone who is'nt with a group of friends. There is this girl that wants me to talk to her, but it's awkward for me because she is always around her friends. I feel that if I were to talk to her, I would have to introduce myself to her friends as well. I have her phone number but it would make me feel like less of a person to have a friendly realationship with her over the phone.

[mizike1122]

@MHarley93

I understand why you would think you are less of a person to have a relationship over the phone when you could do it in person. However, allow yourself to ease into the face to face by first calling on the phone. when you feel comfortable then you can talk face to face. That is what millions of people do with online dating, so you are not alone, good luck

[Boltfiger]

I'm shy. I have to fight the negativity and inhibitions inside my head everyday, because shy is not something I want to be. So I always try to act the part of confidence. And it's worked slowly, meeting more people, gaining more friends, but I confess that the shyness has never truly disappeared yet. I still have internal inhibitions here n there stemming from shyness, or days when I just don't want to be around people. And days that I do. Keep fighting i guess...

[alaindiazaran]

i'm shy but i'm fighting agaist shyness

if you are shy you have to think what is going to happen if you talk and if you talk you just going to bee COOL!!! and don't worry if you say something wrong because everybody makes mistakes. and why ? because we are HUMANS!!!

[NPACT1]

Baby steps people. just get out of it, this is coming from someone who is shy.

[EricSchwin22]

Instant Shyness cure? Well, if most outgoing people aren't so damn stubborn and not think of themselves way too much and reach out and be friends with shy people and make them feel comfortable in social settings, the world would be a better place, but nope!!! This world is too damn stubborn still and these really outgoing pricks will make fun of shy people and ridicule them...overcoming shyness is a long process, and it's not instant.

[mizike1122]

by exposing yourself, overcome the uncomfortable feeling of socializing in large groups by exposing your self to large groups