It's hard to enter adolescence and not feel shy more of the time. There are all kinds of new situational discomforts. For example, during early adolescence, effects of puberty create a vulnerability ...

I've been meeting with Mohammed to understand his experience of immigrating to the United States. Mohammed was raised in Yemen and was excessively shy as a child. Today, he is so economical with words ...

My boyfriend's son is nine-years-old and painfully shy. His social skills are nonexistent. Recently at my mother's house he went upstairs and stood in the airing cupboard. He cannot seem to ...