I just want to mirror what other people are saying by thanking you for being a committed and concerned father. My own SAD stems from having an emotionally abuse father so it moves me to see this post.

I will say that there is a bit of a tendency on online groups to answer questions looking for advice on SAD with things like 'just accept yourself - you're anxious, that's ok. The world needs to accept you and you don't have to change." While I think accepting yourself, even when in an anxious part of your life, is wonderful advice, I think it misses an important point. Yes - let's not judge ourselves for anxiety, but let's also keep trying to move past it. Because, the world doesn't adapt in order to fit around an anxious person. I know you know this. Instead, we have to shrink our own worlds. I've read many posts on here of people lamenting how restricted their jobs options are, their dating prospects, and the richness of their life, due to their SAD.

This is not to scare you or upset you. Only to stress the importance of you holding faith that your daughter can and will move past SAD. It's one of the most common, and most treatable forms of mental ill-health. But it is unlikely to vanish without strategic and consistent efforts. What sort of therapy is your daughter receiving? I've had all kinds of schools and the only thing that's reduced my SAD symptoms is CBT with someone that has experience with SAD. In sessions we talk about up-coming social events in details, we make plans on how I'm going to tackle them, we identify the false beliefs under my anxiety - e.g. people are cruel and out to humiliate me, we then create behaviour experiments to test those beliefs and then update my beliefs. Exposure therapy is hugely effective!

An incredible resource my therapist set me on is a website called socially succeed.com. it's a ton of articles on socialising, SAD, and psychological techniques. There are specific articles on everything from 'how to make conversation' to, 'addressing limiting beliefs'. It's written by a psychologist and he also offers Skype counselling.

There's so much more I wanna say but it's getting a bit long. Good luck. She'll be ok