The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone
Here you’ll find a free e-book on the topic of severe social anxiety disorder. It contains over 1,000 pages and details over 70 techniques to help you mitigate your social anxiety.
The techniques range from those that are well-established (techniques documented in the medical and psychological research literature) to those that are innovative, unconventional, and sometimes quirky (techniques collected from surveys of those who struggle with severe social anxiety, day in and day out):
Risk reduction techniques help you to hide your anxiety from other people.
Impact reduction techniques help you to reduce the anxiety generated by those social interactions you can’t avoid.
Sequelae mitigation techniques help you to reduce loneliness, eliminate suicidal ideation, enhance self-esteem, mitigate trauma, reduce resentment, and enhance sexual satisfaction.
Coping strategy techniques help you to eliminate some sources of anxiety almost immediately.
For a list of all the issues discussed in the e-book, see Viewing the E-book Online.
The e-book is available in PDF format. It can be viewed online (using your web browser), or it can be downloaded to your device and read offline (using a PDF reader). For ease of reading on a device with a small screen (a device such as a smartphone), use the device’s screen orientation icon to set the viewing mode to Landscape or Auto-rotate.
The e-book is free to view online, to download and view offline, and to distribute for non-commercial purposes.
The e-book can be downloaded to your device for viewing offline:
Direct: In most browsers, right-click on the following link: Download. Then select the Save menu item.
Indirect: In most browsers, first display the e-book in your browser (see below), and then click on the Save icon – often the icon with a downward pointing arrow in the top-right corner.
To view the e-book online in your browser (starting with the introduction), click on the following link: Severe Social Anxiety Disorder.
All the chapters contained in the e-book are listed below (in most browsers, you can open the e-book at the beginning of a particular chapter by clicking on the associated chapter title):
For ease of navigation, the e-book’s table of contents can also be viewed alongside the text:
Browser: In most browsers, first display the Sidebar, and then select the Bookmark/Table of Contents/Show Document Outline icon located in the top-left corner.
PDF Reader: In most readers, display the Navigation Panel, and then select the Bookmarks icon.