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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op how old is your child? I am a therapist who treats social anxiety. Social anxiety needs to be treated with exposure work with a well trained therapist (not someone who has it listed along with 20 other specialties). If the person avoids everything that makes them uncomfortable they will stop doing everything. I recommend the book "how to be yourself: quiet your inner Critic and rise above social anxiety" by Ellen Hendriksen. Read it yourself and/or with your child.[/quote]

Not OP, but I've lived with social anxiety my whole life. It never stopped me from doing things, other than I don't go to parties, but man, has it negatively affected my and now my kids' quality of life.  I hope you can find a therapist like PP to help your kid, OP. [/quote]

We have a similar kid and we’ve been doing the exposure approach and CBT along with medication.  But I’m starting to wonder if this is more RSD than social anxiety. Or perhaps our therapist isn’t specialized enough (small town with few options).

Has anyone had experience sorting through that distinction?

DS is able to readily explore/ engage with strangers when we travel on vacation.  But anything to do with school/ classmates even outside of school seems to trigger huge anxiety. I had interpreted it as withdrawal, but the vacation difference caught my attention.[/quote]

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