Coaching practices for Social Scripts for Anxiety
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- The hardest moments are the joins and the exits
- I’ve got all these little things I do to get through anxious moments
- Every time I dodge a social thing I feel relief in the moment, but the next one feels even scarier
- The moment I’m in a room with people I’m trapped watching myself
- On the outside I’m facing the thing, but inside I’m rehearsing every line, mapping the exits, silently bracing
Practices that may help
- Build scripts for situation entry and transitions
Prepare simple, natural openers and transitions so you’re not improvising from scratch under pressure.
Overcoming Shyness: Philip Zimbardo’s Framework - Map your safety-behavior inventory
List every action you take to prevent feared outcomes in anxiety-provoking situations.
Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical - Use graduated social exposure
Start with low-stakes social interactions and systematically increase difficulty.
Overcoming Shyness: Philip Zimbardo’s Framework - Situational attentional refocusing: shift from self to situation
In anxiety-provoking situations, actively redirect attention outward — to the task, the other person, the environment.
Metacognitive Therapy, Made Practical - Reduce covert mental safety behaviors
Identify and fade the mental acts — rehearsing, planning, distraction — that serve the same function as overt avoidance.
Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical - Recognize when money vigilance becomes compulsive restriction
Healthy frugality tips into anxiety when saving provides relief rather than security.
Money Scripts, Made Practical - Build an avoidance hierarchy and work through it systematically
List all the situations you avoid because of anxiety, from least to most frightening, then work up the list.
Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical - Drop the safety behaviors
Let go of the small avoidances and crutches you use to feel "safe" from anxiety.
The DARE Response to Anxiety, Made Practical - Survey Experiments: Testing Beliefs by Asking Others
Test social predictions by asking a small sample of others what they actually think — instead of assuming.
Behavioral Experiments: Testing Beliefs in the Real World - Third-person labeling to activate the witness
Refer to yourself by name or in the third person when narrating your experience: "Dan is feeling anxious."
The Witness Stance
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- Anxiety Avoidance List
List all the situations you avoid because of anxiety, from least to most frightening, then work up the list.
Build an avoidance hierarchy and work through it systematically
- Covert Avoidance Anxiety
Identify and fade the mental acts — rehearsing, planning, distraction — that serve the same function as overt avoidance.
Reduce covert mental safety behaviors
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