Learn to take gradual steps to overcome your anxiety. Barbara Lester, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, outlines the basic principles for overcoming social anxiety. When combating worry and anxiety, the task at hand is to do the thing you fear until you learn that it is not dangerous after all. Of course, this only applies to situations that are not truly dangerous, but only feel risky to the person with anxiety. Help yourself overcome your fears and take gradual steps to increase your social engagement, remembering that FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real. Those with social anxiety will need to take small steps that feel in the "work zone" rather than steps so large that they lead to panic.

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