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Dr. Mullen is doing impressive work helping the world. He is the pioneer of proactive neuroplasticity, utilizing DRNI—deliberate, repetitive, neural information. – ALFONSO PAREDES, CEO, WeVoice. (Valencia, Málaga, Madrid)

A Survivor’s Common Sense Approach to Recovery from Social Anxiety

Are you happy with who you are? Or are you caught up in the densely interconnected network of fear and avoidance brought on by anxiety and depression?

Social and performance anxiety thrive on your irrational thoughts and behaviors, defying logic. Like salmon swimming upstream, you must constantly fight against your unfounded fears and avoidance of opportunities and experiences. Recovery requires a unique and specialized approach from an expert who has personally experienced severe social anxiety and succeeded, offering practical, firsthand knowledge of its unique challenges. I spent half my life in the sewers of social anxiety, and I know the way out.

By translating negative self-beliefs into something that can be observed, identified, and actively addressed, the book creates a practical bridge between understanding and action … The idea that recovery requires active engagement with tools, habits, and behavioral change reflects a grounded understanding of how social anxiety persists and how it can be meaningfully challenged over time. – KAELANI REESE WHITMORE

Visualize your emotional well-being as an overgrown garden. Your negative self-beliefs are like deeply rooted, destructive weeds. This book offers tools to uproot these emotionally tangled roots and encourage new growth, but it is up to you to take those tools from the shed and use them to foster new mindsets, skills, and abilities.

This book is not a scholarly or theoretical exploration of the various psychological approaches in today’s mental health field but a practical, clear, and easy-to-understand guide to recovery.

Drawing on a variety of clinical and innovative approaches, you will learn to counteract the excessive negative information in your brain’s metabolism, replace self-sabotaging thoughts and behaviors with healthy, productive ones, and reintegrate into society with compassion, joy, and confidence.

Most social anxiety books are written by clinicians who studied the condition. Yours was written by someone who lived inside it long enough to know exactly how it lies to you. Your “progression from patient to pioneer gives the book an authority that no amount of research alone could produce. – ELIZABETH HELP

At midlife, I chose a different path. I returned to the university, earned my degree in the humanities, and became a behaviorist specializing in what is still nicknamed the “neglected anxiety disorder.” This is because few therapists have the expertise to tackle what field experts consider the most underrated, misunderstood, and misdiagnosed disorder.

What I found especially compelling is that your approach appears to come not only from professional understanding, but from lived experience… [It] gives the book a level of authenticity that readers are likely to find both reassuring and credible. – JAMES BLACKSTONE

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is manipulative and intractable, sustained by the irrational thoughts and behaviors of the roughly 360 million individuals caught in its densely interconnected network of fear and avoidance of social and performance situations. The fear is so intense that even the thought of going out in public can trigger high levels of anxiety and panic.

Committing to recovery is one of the hardest things a socially anxious individual will ever do. It takes enormous courage and the realization that they are of value, consequential, and deserve to be happy. My goal in life is to alleviate the symptoms of social anxiety for anyone who has the commitment and determination to recover.

The fact that this isn’t written from a purely academic perspective, but from someone who personally experienced severe social anxiety and fought through it, combined with your practical “overgrown garden” approach to uprooting negative self-beliefs and building healthier patterns, is exactly the kind of guidance that deserves a real audience. –  AURORA WILLOW

The Author

Robert F. Mullen, Ph.D., is a behaviorist and published academic author who offers those experiencing social anxiety a program to help overcome this disabling condition. His recently published book, “A Survivor’s Common Sense Approach to Recovery from Social Anxiety,” is a guide that reassures you that social anxiety is not uncommon, not your fault, and that a solution is available for anyone with the courage and dedication to make a change.

For over thirty years, Dr. Mullen faced the challenges of severe social anxiety. Often called the neglected anxiety disorder, SAD was a new, underrated, misunderstood, and frequently misdiagnosed condition.

A lot of books on anxiety and depression stay clinical or overly theoretical, but this guide carries something far more personal and grounded. [The] practical lived-experience framework is remarkable. Highly recommended for anyone not living up to their full potential. – MATTY SAVEN

In his mid-forties, Mullen went back to university, fighting against SAD’s hold on his emotional well-being. It was a journey of trial and error, but eventually, the answers became clear. He now dedicates his career to helping the millions of people worldwide who struggle with anxiety and depression.

A lot of books in this space stay clinical or overly theoretical, but your manuscript carries something far more personal and grounded. The way you connect childhood trauma, cognitive distortions, shame, self-sabotage, neuroplasticity, and recovery into a practical, lived experience. – LISA BRANDON

Committing to recovery is one of the hardest things you will ever do.
It takes enormous courage and the realization that you are of value, consequential, and deserving of happiness. 

I am simply in awe at the writing, your insights, your deep knowing of transcendence, your intuitive understanding of psychic-physicalpain, your connection of the pain to healing, your concept/title, and above all, your innate compassion. – JANICE PARKER, PHD