Goodbye to Shy
Awesome book.. i learned things that made so much sense of how shy persons are perceived... a real self help must read
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- I agree, great book. Especially for somebody who is not the 'people' type or comes if one comes from an introverted family.
Its like learning a new language, you suddenly start getting more information about people and situations.
Another suggestion for the shy types (am/was one - in transition :), so please don't take offense) - Goodbye to Shy by Leil Lowndes. (warning - there is quite some cheesy sounding advise, but if you look past that, you can find good usable stuff)
- > and who does not believe that anyone is going to believe them
I agree with you.
In "Goodbye to Shy", Leil Lowndes cites research that shows that even someone who is just shy will tend to interpret other peoples opinions of them and of interactions with them far more negatively than less shy people.
It takes very, very little to turn what would be an incredibly stressful situation to most people - innocent or not - and turn it into something substantially worse depending just on relatively benign personality traits.
Much less mental illnesses like depression that can be extremely severe.
