No offense to anyone, but seriously, if you need a book to help with social anxiety, you got bigger problems to worry about! Just go out there and try, as many times as it takes, and you will get there on your own. If you fail, it's ok, try again, simple! First rule to not having social anxiety is to stop worrying about what others think, then it's smooth sailing.

 

I think that you have a fundamental misunderstanding as to how social anxiety works

 

My point flew over your heads it seems. What I was trying to say is that a BOOK won't help, you need to actually have some sort of social interactions (even if sheltered in the form of a psychiatrist) to overcome it. A book will do NOTHING, whether you admit it or not, it's the truth.

 

You obviously have no clue what you're talking about. Sometimes just a little encouragement goes a long way. Please stop commenting poison like this the internet. Or in general.

 

You should be a psychologist. No really! Your view on this subject goes so deep! Wow!!!!

 

I don't care about what you have to say... I'd like to reiterate what I said already

 

You sound like a dog giving a cow an advice on how to give milk. As someone already mentioned, you obviously have no clue.

Once a book turned my life 180°, helping me to almost completely get rid of social anxiety, at a time, where I didn't believe that it can be cured. A book certainly won't make that disease go away just by reading it, but it may show you the right way and open some blind spots you couldn't spot prior to reading it.

My go-to book is "The Six Pillads of Self-Esteem" by Nathaniel Branden. That book is a mix of a scientific approach to the question what is self-esteem and why it determines every move we make in our daily life, and some practical example of how to break and overcome certain patterns that lead us to the prison cell we're locked in.
Without that book I probably wouldn't be married to today, have a very well paid job that I like, and have traveled all across the world. Videogames would still be my life instead of a highly passionate hobby.

You're not wrong about the fact that you actually have to act and leave your comfort zone as often as you can, but it's along way until you actually have the strengh to do that, at least if your social anxiety long since taken control of your life.

 

Just because you like to hear yourself on repeat, does not mean everybody else does. Actually, it just makes you an insensitive douchebag with a lack of empathy and compassion. Your mother must be proud.

 

That's weird I can see it in your reply. Seems to work on Chrome and Opera but not Edge or Safari.