If you’re like most of us, you go through each day telling yourself a story—about who you are, and what your life is like—and those patterns of thought and emotion repeat over and... Read more >>

The difference between social anxiety disorder and social phobia is the fact that social anxiety has logical reasons for its manifestation, while social phobia is an absurd fear. We can differentiate... Read more >>

Can you remember the last time you stepped into a room full of strangers and felt that self-conscious and awkward feeling rush over you? Or wanting to approach someone for business, but feeling too... Read more >>

At a Blogher 2008 panel about introversion and blogging, I found myself wanting to jump up and wrest control of the microphones away from the panelists, leap to the top of one of the tables, and yell,... Read more >>