Why's there no psych articles, books or treatments for my problem?

I always thought I was normal playing video games, watching cartoons and listening to indie music. Apparently people, even in the tech aged 21st century still have their ignorant bigoted heads up their asses. I'm 33 and I can't find anything about the decades of my anxiety as it pertains to me. I have gotten mixed signals my whole life. One day someone says it's normal to like X activity. Another person or different media outlet will say no it isn't normal to like X activity. Less than a 3rd of video game players are kids and the average player is 34 and the demographic only gets older and broader every year. Who doesn't like Archer or Pixar films? Iron Man, Spiderman and Batman killed at the box office! Radiohead make The Beatles sound like amateurs when it comes to musicianship and song writing and I love The Beatles! I don't know what a nerd is, they don't exist, especially in the information age. Everything man-made in this world is the work of intellectuals. People wouldn't be building cars for example if it weren't for scientists who invented artificial rubber, advanced metals and composites and the battery, combustion engines and on and on. It wasn't jocks that dreamed up architecture, electricity and modern medicine. So why do I feel like a nerd if the term is pure fiction? Why, in all the social anxiety books, websites and psychology research on anxiety is this problem not addressed? Why isn't there any cognitive behavioural therapies designed specifically to overcome this specific type of low self esteem?

Therapy is about learning more about who you are, accepting yourself as you are, and support for making changes you want to make.

You might find psychodynamic/psychoanalytic psychotherapy a better fit than cognitive behavioral therapy because there is nothing at all wrong with your behavior. You just don't like yourself and you judge yourself harshly for enjoying the things you love.

I agree with you, the term nerd is fiction; it is a word that is meant to judge, demean, shame.

http://www.dcpsychotherapy.com/psychoanalysis.html

http://www.212analyst.org/psychoanal...oanalysis.html

http://www.guidetopsychology.com/questions.htm

'Everything man-made in this world is the work of intellectuals. People wouldn't be building cars for example if it weren't for scientists who invented artificial rubber, advanced metals and composites and the battery, combustion engines and on and on. It wasn't jocks that dreamed up architecture, electricity and modern medicine.'

agree

introvertguy,

You're over-thinking it. I could be wrong - forgive me if I am - but it sounds like your mind is racing. So many thoughts, wondering about so may things. Struggling to find information on what you are dealing with. Like some search engines say, you just need to narrow down your search. Try to focus your mind more. Think less about the 'big boys' and how they do things, and more about how you do things. Do what feels good and stop doing what doesn't feel good. And refuse to feel guilty about what works for you. And if I read your post all wrong I apologise.

Mmm...! Have you looked or searched "feeling inferior" I feel it would give you a better understanding of what you are looking for.

Thanks, all excellent answers!

I'm a biology student and I'm a proud nerd.

Nerds run the world and drag it kicking and screaming into modernity.

These jocky types are just attempting to compensate for poor brains by attempting to inflate and distort their social acumen and they try to downplay the importance of intelligence.

Hanlon's razor dictates that one should attribute a wrong to stupidity rather than malice.