Friday, August 19, 2011

Stanford study vanquishes social anxieties without drugs

By Contra Costa Times

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — For most of his life, 24-year-old Steven Bringas so feared humiliating himself if he spoke that only an emergency would get him to enter a store.

The few times he shopped, he couldn't look at the clerk and barely managed a “thank you” when he left.

He avoided encountering others, thinking his small talk so clumsy that it would invite ridicule.

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