Collaborative Learning Community: Staying Healthy

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How this issue impacts the individual and the community

Many ask why we should care if people socialize or not. That is a great question, and it would cause the crippling of our economy to continue. If we allow social anxiety to persist post-covid we would lose many benefits of a community. Fairs and carnivals would no longer come to town, Malls and physical shopping facilities would cease to exist, and dine in restaurants would become extinct and that is just for starters. We also need to make money, right? The businesses I listed above would cease to exist and so would the jobs have associated with them and those were just examples. Think of the jobs that have existed and been created over the past 200 years. How many would exist if most of our society never returned to being a social creature. That is a scary thought, right? Well, that is where we come in. Using individual and group sessions, as well as our community outreach program we will breathe a social life back into our community again.

Grand Canyon Behavioral Health

COVID19 secluded us from each other and made us fear interaction. So, what do we do now that the vaccine is being administered at a herd mentality level? Social Anxiety is going to cripple many of us and make life hard on us as individuals, but it will also cripple our communities return to normality. That is where we come in, we are here to help reconnect you with other people and help communities return to the social entities they were. This will be our focus and our mission for the foreseeable future till. Like the vaccines, socialization once again reaches a herd mentality. As Humans, it is our nature to be social, so it is vital that is restored. Join us in the restoration process.

Grand Canyon Behavioral Health

Social Anxiety Specialists

Making our community social again.

Grand Canyon Behavioral Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

What needs to happen…

What we Help you to change

Social anxiety disorder is a common type of anxiety disorder, characterized by feelings of anxiety or fear in certain or all social situations.

Some Signs and Symptoms

· Butterflies

· Nervousness

· Lightheadedness

· Shaking

· Nausea

· Increase in heart rate

You should not feel alone in feeling these symptoms during these times. Studies show that many adults have recently felt these symptoms due to a prolonged lack of human interaction. Social distancing has been a collective experience, and a return to normalcy is doable.

What we have to offer is

a form of preventative measures to deal with social anxiety. This program is aimed at helping the general population affected by post-pandemic anxiety. Therefore, it is suggested that treatment methods involve re-training sociability and overcoming the symptoms associated with social anxiety. Two forms of treatment are offered.

Social Support Groups

What better way to treat social anxiety than to gather people with similar problems? Engaging and sharing in personal pandemic stories can help people get back to their old social selves. Reach out to our support group programs now.

Social Support Groups

What better way to treat social anxiety than to gather people with similar problems? Engaging and sharing in personal pandemic stories can help people get back to their old social selves. Reach out to our support group programs now.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

In extreme cases, social anxiety may require more extensive forms of treatment such as CBT. One of the central goals of CBT is to help individuals identify irrational beliefs and problematic patterns of thinking which are conducive to feelings of social anxiety. If you have concerns with joining a support group, then this treatment may be right for you.

Rewards for making the changes

The benefits of participating in our program is long lasting. The immediate benefits of the program may not be apparent, however, you will find that you will no longer have problems with interacting with others.

Not only will this program help alleviate some of the symptoms of social anxiety, but it will also help in creating protective measures for future social anxiety situations.

These protective measures help in reducing stress and anxiety, which in turn reduces physiological detriments to health.

References

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/social-anxiety-disorder-more-than-just-shyness/

https://www.verywellmind.com/how-to-adapt-to-post-pandemic-reality-with-social-anxiety-5180281

Kaczkurkin, A. N., & Foa, E. B. (2015). Cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders: an update on the empirical evidence. Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 17(3), 337–346. https://doi.org/10.31887/DCNS.2015.17.3/akaczkurkin