Tag: Anxiety Awareness
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Understanding Social Anxiety: A Personal Journey
Social Anxiety through the eyes of me, The Socially Awkward Normie. I never liked being the centre of attention. I hated when all eyes were on me and my presence was noticed by others. In high school, I used to throw in my headphones, turn on my iPod and quickly walk from class to class…
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Why We Need to Revamp the “Man Up” Mentality
Social anxiety knows no age, no gender, no race, no sex. It likes to prey on the weak, the vulnerable, the lonely, and the insecure. It will tell you you’re not good enough and make you fear being inadequate around friends, family and the people you meet throughout your day-to-day activities. All of these feelings…
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Why Quality Social Connections are Important for your Mental Wellbeing.
Fundamentally humans need quality connections in order to fulfil the need of belonging in a society where connections can now reach all the way around the world through technology, the internet and social media. Maslow purposed a “Hierarchy of Needs” which is a psychological theory that describes all of the properties we as humans need…
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Social Anxiety and Perfectionism: The Perfect Storm
In today’s society we are brainwashed to believe that we need to be absolutely “perfect” in every way; perfect body, perfect family, perfect education, perfect house, perfect career… perfect life. Anything that doesn’t live up to these expectations is considered “less than”. In a world that focuses all of its energy, time and money on…
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EAT THE DAMN CAKE!
Here’s a new 3am thought, eat that damn piece of cake. Have two! Hell… have whole damn thing. Whatever makes you HAPPY. We as a society spend most of our entire life chasing the dream to be healthier, thinner, more muscular, more tan- and the list goes on. Don’t have curly hair but you want…
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Perception- The Ying and Yang of Assumptions
How we perceive the world around us differs from one person to the next. When you look at the analogy of the cup- is it half full or half empty, everyone has their own way of interpreting how cup the cup and the water appear to them. “The cup is half full because _____” “The…
The Socially Awkward Normie 