Painfully Shy How to Overcome Social Anxiety and Reclaim Your Life

People with social anxiety disorder are often called 'shy' or 'awkward,' but such pat diagnoses don't do justice to this phobia that affects seventeen million Americans and can lead to clinical depres-sion and alcohol and drug dependency. Painfully Shy guides readers in the use of therapies and techniques for mastering social anxiety and shyness, offers counsel in the use of herbal and pharmacological therapy, and outlines important questions for readers' doctors. Accessibly written, using case histories, Painfully Shy is an important, much-needed first step on the road to recovering from this devastating illness.G. Markway, Barbara is the author of 'Painfully Shy How to Overcome Social Anxiety and Reclaim Your Life' with ISBN 9780312316235 and ISBN 0312316232.