Random thoughts by Roberto Selbach. See other blog posts here.

Tag: social anxiety disorder

Avoiding Avoidance Behaviour

I am currently trying a new approach to deal with my social phobia. Basically it involves avoiding avoidance behaviours. You see, people with social anxiety tend to avoid problematic situations and run to metaphorical safe places. After a while, the avoidance behaviours become almost automatic, almost imperceptible. Almost but not quite. We behave so without…

My social anxiety screwed me royally this week

A few years ago I wrote about how social anxiety makes me use fake accounts on the web. I love coding. I have done it since I was a kid and it’s the best thing I know how to do. And then there is open source. Open source projects should be the perfect venue for…