Anxiety Social Net - The First Anxiety Social Network

Anxiety Social Network, The new website was designed and developed by Anxiety Social Net which maintains the biggest support group online where members can create personal, private diaries, personal pages with photos and text and a personal profile page. Members are allowed to remain anonymous if they choose to do so and are not required to create pages.
Anxiety Social Net empowers members to interact with each other in a secure private community where users can reveal as much or as little personal information as they feel comfortable sharing. A few of the groups which are currently open include:

bipolar Disorder Support Group
phobias support groups
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Support Group
Separation Anxiety Support
Panic Attacks Support Group
Phobias Support Group
Agoraphobia Support Group
Generalized Anxiety Disorder Support Group
Social Anxiety Support Group

Anxiety affects everyone at some point in their lives so we're all familiar with the feelings that can occur when we become anxious. Sometimes those feelings can stop us in our tracks and paralyze us even though we inherently know that it is just a feeling, we cannot stop the anxious thoughts. The big difference between people is that anxiety affects everyone to a different degree which is why not everyone who feels anxious needs an anxiety support group.

The new website created by Anxiety Social Net was designed to help people help themselves. The site provides a range of support groups and how-to articles which cover many anxieties and can help to educate its members on how to overcome the stress and headaches associated with anxiety.

About

We created the anxiety support groups website because we suffered from anxiety and we were largely able to overcome our difficulties through the help of online support. After spending several years as members of other support groups websites we decided to create our own site from the ground up with the idea that users will be fueling and helping to evolve the design and functions of the site.

AnxietySocialNet, a meeting place for persons afflicted with anxiety disorders, as well as those who have managed to overcome them. If you have helplessly watched a family member grapple anxiety disorders, you are encouraged to join too.

As an ongoing anxiety sufferer, you may find explanations to some of the sensations you often feel, but cannot easily put into words. You may even get answers to questions you haven't been able to frame, because you don't understand your symptoms well enough.

For past sufferers who emerged victorious, in being able to control their symptoms instead of allowing their symptoms to control them, you know exactly how it feels. Reach out and lend a helping hand to those who can benefit most from your advice and suggestions. Lend an ear or a lifeline to someone in need.

Anxiety disorders often manifest themselves at inopportune moments, amplifying their impact. They afflict adults, and they affect children too, putting worrisome burdens on them at a tender age. While the experiences of current and past sufferers are likely to be similar, they may also be uniquely different.

In sharing their most distressing experiences, members will find it helpful to know they are not as different from everyone else as they may have formerly believed. AnxietySocialNet is the brainchild of a former sufferer, who has overcome his own struggles, and aims to help those who hope to unshackle themselves from the problems that hold them captive.

Medication can lessen their symptoms, but the kindness and the presence of someone to talk to - someone who understands, can ease their burdens. Particularly helpful will be the true stories of sufferers, of those who have recovered, and advice that will be appreciated by all.

Most heartening of all will be the stories of those who went by their instincts, in fighting their symptoms by keeping busy, depending on their talents, or building interests like painting, sewing and even cooking, although they lacked the appetite for food themselves.

Reach out and make contact with other sufferers from anxiety disorders. Share your stories of how you calmed the tempests which had earlier wrought havoc in your lives. Throw a lifeline to someone who needs it badly, or find one for yourself here. Join AnxietySocialNet today.

Salomon Ptasevich

Founder of AnxietySocialNet

AnxietySocialNet is an anxiety social network much like Facebook. However, the difference lies in giving users the ability to share highly personal matters without exposing themselves to friends and family.

WEBWIRE - Tuesday, February 07, 2012
We live in hectic times; the percentage of anxiety afflicted people is growing exponentially. Around 18% of the US population has endured some form of anxiety during their lives. Anxiety in its various forms can hit at any time and most people will not be eager to write about it on Facebook.

AnxietySocialNet (commonly referred to as "ASN") was founded by former anxiety sufferer Salomon Ptasevich. The site has most of the functionality we already know from other social network sites such as anxiety support groups and anxiety Q&A but also includes specific functionality created to assist users in overcoming anxiety and easing the integration of new users to the community.

Such innovations include the "Emotion Chart," which consists of three 1 to 10 scales based on three different questions. The site then calculates the user's overall mood and publishes it on the profile page. As a result, other friends and users can see when a fellow member is "down" and can promptly give a word of advice by contacting them using the live chat or by personal message.

Another interesting feature of the site is the "My Goals" section, which gives the user the possibility to set private and public goals for overcoming his/her anxiety step by step. ASN also offers users the possibility of keeping a diary and sharing both successes and failures with the anxiety community.

A popular myth is that social networks can have a negative impact by actually heightening the user's anxiety. However, ASN has proven that a more private, serious, and helpful community of anxiety sufferers can be both relieving and beneficial to the user. ASN Founder, Salomon Ptasevich, states in his blog, "the whole idea behind ASN is to allow people to share their emotions in a 'safe place' and learn from each other's experiences. We try to encourage users to get themselves out there and conquer their anxiety."