I have studied anxiety disorders (PTSD, OCD, Social Phobia, and others) and one of the main things emphasized in SPAM is how the disorder is maintained by operant conditioning. For instance, when someone with social phobia is in a social situation, the result is discomfort/distress. In order to get rid of this feeling, they leave the situation. This reinforces this method of relieving the anxiety and the social anxiety can never be extinguished. In anxiety disorder SPAM, the patients are encouraged to stay with the feeling and stimulus evoking the feeling. I feel like this applies to me when I approach. I start to feel anxious and immediately eject. This has become my immediate reaction to approach anxiety. Immediately my head goes "Get the fuck out of here." My goal is to approach and stay in set, no matter how uncomfortable I feel. I will force myself to feel uncomfortable until approaching no longer makes me uncomfortable. When this happens, I'm amping it up to another level, finding something new that causes AA (extremely hot girls, very large sets, mixed sets, etc.).

here's a brief description of this effect -http://www.socialanxietyassist.com.au/t ... sure.shtml

Another thing to do for operant conditioning is learn to stop focusing on or asking yourself how you feel,one of the most common traits of people with an anxiety disorder is they are very self aware and dont realise that they ask themselves how they feel many times more than a non-anxious person.For example have you ever been in a situation where you forgot to be anxious and then when you realised you were calm and non anxious the sensations come flooding back the racing thoughts,sweating etc thats because before this your mind was distracted and dirverted away from searching for signs of anxiety and how you feel.

I pushed myself in many activities but it was so dishartening after weeks and weeks to have no change in my anxiety level untill i learnt to detach feeling from action and learnt to divert and distract my subsconscious mind by avoiding asking how i felt and leting my mind just drift from thought to thought.
Doing this will reset the amygdala back down to a normal level of aleartness from high aleart fear of feelings of fear.