Shyness And Social Anxiety Workbook For Teens (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
The Exposure Ladder From Avoidance to Action Alex has done some good work. He’s defined his values, and he understands how avoiding scary situations takes him further from getting what he wants. He’s identified the automatic thoughts that drive his anxious feelings and avoidance behavior. He’s examined those thoughts for distortions and challenged them with coping questions. He should be okay now, right? Shouldn’t his avoidance behavior pretty well have disappeared for him, and for you too, if you’ve been doing the work in this book? Not so fast. Coping thoughts won’t simply replace your distorted anxious thoughts. Reasoning won’t kill them. Like vampires, these thoughts will live forever unless they are exposed to sunlight. To really change the way we think, we need to purposely experience what we’ve been avoiding. We need exposure. Exposure is moving toward your fears instead of away from them. By facing your fears repeatedly you will learn to manage them and move on.
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