CBT cognitive behavioral therapy is the best with this because we'll do what we call downward i think it's actually technically downward arrow questioning where we try to logically talk ourselves out of these you know kind of anxiety provoking situations like okay well there are 700 people in the cafeteria today what are the chances of that person laughing is laughing about us, well 1 in 700, well is that really you know a high risk situation? is it most likely that they're thinking and laughing about me or is it less likely that they're thinking and laughing at me? well it's probably less likely and we kind of talk ourselves out of it so if you suffer from social anxiety or social phobia and you're wondering what to do about it i would look into seeing a CBT therapist okay? so that's just a little tip and then what is agoraphobia everybody talks about that too, right? and that falls under this as well now agoraphobia differs from social anxiety or social phobia in that it doesn't have to do with social situations it's not relational it's not like well that girl is pointing at me and she's being really mean or that guy was whispering and i know he was whispering about me it's not relational with those kinds of people it is all to do with us getting into a situation which usually is social or is just out of our house out of our comfort zone so we may be safe at home we may be safe at work anything else not safe and our main concern is that we'll get somewhere and we can't leave either we can't leave easily or without embarrassment and that's our biggest worry it's like i'm gonna get somewhere and i'm gonna start to feel overwhelmed and then i won't be able to leave or i'll have to embarrass myself in front of people to leave because i'll be stuck you know like i'm in the middle seat in this opera and i'm gonna have to get up and disturb all these people it's gonna be really embarrassing for me so that's kind of more what agoraphobia is versus social anxiety so social anxiety is more relational agoraphobia is just like situational if that makes sense that's kind of in my mind how if i had my white board i would draw a line and i would break them down like that so that is that then there are panic attacks and panic disorder now panic attacks i know many of you have said that you've had them and that you have them a lot and they're really overwhelming and that's the truth they really suck and they're terrible and they not only come on quickly but once we have them then we always worry that we're going to have more of them and the symptoms of panic attacks can be they say somatic or cognitive in nature so it can be 