Re: My son (20) has social anxiety - how do I help him?
Originally Posted by
BrokenGirl
Does anyone have any advice on how to deal with social anxiety? Is there anything he can do to help himself? Any natural remedies that help it?
Looking for anything at all really because I don't know where to begin with it
CBT would be the best way to go...
Medication can actually be helpful in order to bring highly anxious people back into a more receptive state to engage with therapy, but CBT is the important thing here, and your son will have to commit to this and persevere - especially when the going gets tough.
Also, maybe your son would benefit from a social anxiety therapy group? Other than online, groups have never been my thing personally (autistic) but they can be very helpful for lots of people who say that it helped to be around others who were experiencing the same anxieties and lots of people have this disorder. I think it's about the 3rd biggest MH disorder?
I was diagnosed with social phobia when I was 13 but it turned out that it's because I'm autistic, so it's not the same dynamics as with non-autistics. This is why nothing worked for me, no matter what I did or what books I read on the disorder..
All the best to you..
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