What are you doing to overcome your AvPD?

I have no idea about how many people have posted the same thread before, I suppouse many, many...but, thre are new avoidants in the forum, so...

In relation to me:
- Pills ( I hope to be free from them soon). Phychiatrists prescription. I can´t remember the last time I was free of meds.
- Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy.
- Relaxation techniques (really good. I promise you this is my main help. I don´t know why but it has change my brain, my way to see the life)

Now, I want to practise meditation.

I haven't really done anything about it. Partly because i'm still in my parents house until I move to the dorms, and partly because i'm a poor college student. I don't have too many options. So, i just play video games and watch tv mostly. Anything to avoid being bored (I become introspective and depressed when I have nothing to do). Im just hoping ill get better when school starts up. Its unlikely, but who knows.

^ in response csrevennent. i dont mea to sound negative but i have found that your situation does not nessasariuly change this disease. it is your thought patterns that will change it. you could be at college or with freinds or at home by yourself in your room and if you are having the same irrational negative thoughts then it will just keep you down.

i have been listening to cbt social anxiety tapes, reading alot of books, listening to hypnotism tapes for confidence. i have tried giving my self little challenges to talk to people and to say yes to things like invitations ect aswell. right now i am really trying hard to have rational thoughts as opposed to negative ones. i would like to try relaxation techniques so far all i have tried is slow breathing..

ultimate_krang wrote:^ in response csrevennent. i dont mea to sound negative but i have found that your situation does not nessasariuly change this disease. it is your thought patterns that will change it. you could be at college or with freinds or at home by yourself in your room and if you are having the same irrational negative thoughts then it will just keep you down.

i have been listening to cbt social anxiety tapes, reading alot of books, listening to hypnotism tapes for confidence. i have tried giving my self little challenges to talk to people and to say yes to things like invitations ect aswell. right now i am really trying hard to have rational thoughts as opposed to negative ones. i would like to try relaxation techniques so far all i have tried is slow breathing..

I agree with Ultimate Krang, CS Reverant. I know it´s very difficult to change patterns thoughts, but at the end they are an habits and habits can be changed.

In relation to relaxation techniques, I´m working to get some in English. I let all you know.

- become schizoid

###$ all.
I'm not especially happy, but I'm not particularly unhappy.
I think I'll just stay here for a while.

ultimate_krang wrote:^ in response csrevennent. i dont mea to sound negative but i have found that your situation does not nessasariuly change this disease. it is your thought patterns that will change it. you could be at college or with freinds or at home by yourself in your room and if you are having the same irrational negative thoughts then it will just keep you down.

i have been listening to cbt social anxiety tapes, reading alot of books, listening to hypnotism tapes for confidence. i have tried giving my self little challenges to talk to people and to say yes to things like invitations ect aswell. right now i am really trying hard to have rational thoughts as opposed to negative ones. i would like to try relaxation techniques so far all i have tried is slow breathing..

True, while it is fundamentally based on thoughts and perceptions, I have found through my own experiences that just going and socializing, and trying to break out of my habits, does not help much, and is extremely taxing. It may be possible to just "muscle" my way through it, but I would much prefer professional help.

dude, i have found that even if i do do something social or something sucessfully and i feel great about it the next day i could wake up and be back to square 1. this is just something you gotta beat the hard way and there isnt one set thing you can do to get rid of it either.

@CS Reverant: I agree that only change your behavioural habits is not enough. Perhaps I´m wrong but the way we have to think is also an habit. I know that it´s really much more difficult to change.
This is a stupid example but that happens really frequent: In the classroom, you didn´t understand something the teacher explained or some instructions s(he) gave to accomplish a task. If you think that if you ask for a clarification, the whole class is going to think that you are stupid, you won´t ask and you will internalize that you are really a stupid.
However, if you think that there is no problem, the teacher is there to help you, another students ask when they have any doubt and you don´t think that they are stupid for doing so; you have to the right to ask for a clarification, that´s not imply that you are stupid, perhaps you were absent-minded at this moment or you are not as brilliant at this subject... Once, you get used to think in the second way once and again, you will be broken a ######6 habit and a more realistic way to see the same situation will arise automatically.

@ Cirvante: So this is the cure. So I´m wasting my time in all these ######6 therapies.