Keyword: social anxiety

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Addiction as Romance with Jonathan Berent July 16, 2013

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Jonathan Berent
Category: Addiction & Compulsion, Anxiety & Fear

Armand DiMele reframes addiction as a romance, arguing that substances and compulsive behaviors offer the unconditional love that people fail to find elsewhere. Social anxiety specialist Jonathan Berent then joins to discuss shyness, social phobia, selective mutism, and why avoidance only deepens over time.

Extroversion and Introversion August 31, 2010

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Identity & The Self

Where do you fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum, and does it matter? Armand DiMele and co-host Stephanie Dombrough break down the neuroscience and psychology behind each type, the myth that introversion equals shyness, and how misreading these differences creates conflict in relationships and households.

Shyness and the Fear of Social Life March 6, 2007

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Anxiety & Fear, Personal Growth & Change

Roughly 40 percent of young people now call themselves shy, and the number keeps climbing. Armand DiMele traces the roots of social fear, from genetics and brain chemistry to absent fathers and sheltered childhoods, and makes the case that facing the world anyway, fumbles and all, is how confidence actually grows.