Doing an inquiry on the concept: “I have Social Anxiety Disorder.” The four questions. 1 Is it true? 2 Can you REALLY know that it is true? 3 How do you react, what happens to you when you believe the thought? 4 Who would you be without the thought? Turn the thought around. “I have Social Anxiety Disorder,” turned around: I don’t have Social Anxiety Disorder. (How could that possibly be as true, or truer?) *There are times when I have experienced social situations with no anxiety at all, or only a little anxiety. *”Social Anxiety Disorder,” SAD is a label that a psychologist *created* to make it easy for diagnosis & treatment *Some of the anxieties we experience have nothing to do with socializing, ie my family’s health, money *SAD can be broken down into individual concepts, ie “I am not good enough,” “I am a failure..” And the good news is that concepts can be questioned! *Actually, the fears that we have are universal beliefs – do we have a DISORDER, are we mentally ILL? Or is it possible that we just attach to our concepts more heavily than others (and can we even know that THAT is true)? How could it possibly be as true or truer, for you, that maybe.. you don’t have a disorder? ** Note: And just because I don’t believe I have SAD anymore, does not mean I can’t continue to use CBT, seek help, join support groups, etc. PLEASEEE do not take this video as me minimizing the amount of suffering you are experiencing, or that I’m saying you shouldn’t seek treatment! www …
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#1 by RockandRoller918 on March 21st, 2010
Awesome your back!!!.
#2 by ThereAreNoMistakes on March 21st, 2010
@RockandRoller918 Hey YOU’RE back! lol.. thank you so much for having had my back through this whole thing.
#3 by RockandRoller918 on March 21st, 2010
@ThereAreNoMistakes Your welcome!.
#4 by BillyOhRayBob90210 on March 22nd, 2010
I remember watching your videos a long time ago and I wanted to tell you that “social anxiety disorder” is just an illusion, a mental label, that your ego attaches to and identifies with. But at the time, I thought you wouldn’t be ready to hear it. So, I decided not to say anything. But now, I am very happy to see you make this video. I think so many so-called “mental disorders” are just mental labels that your ego identifies with in order to feel like a “victim.”
#5 by BillyOhRayBob90210 on March 22nd, 2010
Oh, one more thing. I also got labeled with the “anxiety disorder” label many, many years ago by some doctor. But then, I realized that life is really about emotions, and how willing a person is to face and confront their emotions (ie. fear, jealousy, anger, guilt, hatred, revenge, pain, insecurity, feelings of inferiority and superiority, feelings of worthlessness, etc.) To me, that is all S.A.D. is. It’s just an unwillingness to confront your painful emotions.
#6 by ThereAreNoMistakes on March 22nd, 2010
@BillyOhRayBob90210 so true..
#7 by philinmotion on April 5th, 2010
Seems to me like you are trying to convince yourself you don’t have anxiety disorder. You have social anxiety disorder, you might want to be with it and to accept it, not as a fatality but just live with the reality of it. You are aware SAD is just a concept, good. But notice what place you come from when you do the work, are you willing to see or just trying to reassure yourself? The mind is very wise and will make everything out of anything and make you believe what you want to believe.
#8 by ThereAreNoMistakes on April 5th, 2010
@philinmotion I can see how it seems like that.. and I don’t believe I have a disorder, I can’t anymore. I believed it for a long time, and the more I question it, the more I see I don’t have an anxiety disorder… and you know, that’s just my own truth… I accept that I have stressful thoughts all over in my brain, and that I believe them sometimes, and that I experience sensations that I call ‘anxiety’ —- and I *still* can’t convince my self I have an anxiety disorder..
#9 by philinmotion on April 5th, 2010
@ThereAreNoMistakes I had schizophrenia and was well aware it was just a concept but tried to convince myself I was not schizophrenic based on the evidence that schizophrenia is just a concept. To put it short, I tried to deny the fact that I was schizophrenic by telling myself stories about how it was only a concept.