Overcoming Severe Anxiety

Social Disorders

 Symptoms & Signs of Public Phobia & Treatment Information

Some of the most common symptoms of social anxiety disorders. Sweating profusely, nausea, dizziness, heart palpitations, panic attacks and obviously, the fear of public places with severe shyness.

Social anxiety disorder, also called social phobia, is a persistent and irrational fear of social or performance situations, such as parties and picnics.

Many people feel socially awkward in these situations, but someone who is dealing with social phobias is so fearful that he may avoid these situations entirely.

Being in social situations can cause him great distress and may trigger a panic attack. During and after the experience, he can’t stop thinking about his words and actions and criticizing himself.

Social disorders affect men and women equally, and also occurs in children. Explore more of this web site to learn how to get rid of your social fears.

Your body has a “fight or flight” reaction, symptoms of social anxiety disorders may include; a racing heart, faster breathing, profuse sweating, and your stomach and head may ache. That’s all normal if you’re really in danger.

But if these reactions keep occurring when you’re not in danger to the point where they disrupt your life, they’re called anxiety disorders. No one knows exactly what causes social anxiety disorders. Heredity, and changes in the brain probably play a part.

As a social phobia sufferer myself, I believe the greatest results to find relief and a speedy recovery are through social anxiety disorder self-help methods, as opposed to meds or psychiatric therapy. If treatments are unattainable, which most are for people, a self-help approach is the next best option.

Most people have felt awkward or embarrassed in a social or performance situation at some point in their lives. However, people with nongeneralized social phobia disorder (also known as social anxiety) experience much more symptoms than this. They go through life feeling extremely uncomfortable or paralyzed in social situations because they intensely fear being scrutinized or embarrassed.

So they either totally avoid social encounters, or face them with dread and endure them with intense distress. Although social anxiety disorder is often dismissed as shyness, studies have shown it to have a chronic and unremitting course that is characterized by a serious severe anxiety and impairment.

It is difficult to estimate how many individuals actually have social phobias, as most people with the condition do not seek professional treatment for their fears. Social anxiety disorder was thought to be a rare and usually mild condition until the 1980s, when it was recognized as a separate disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
 
Then in the 1990s, several epidemiological studies suggested that social anxiety disorder was associated with significant impairment and was far more prevalent than initially thought. In fact, by this time, it was considered one of the most common mental disorders.

Because few people are formally treated, however, epidemiological population-based studies are really the only way to estimate the prevalence of social anxiety disorder and the burden it can impose.

The most commonly feared situation for people with social phobias was performing or giving a speech on stage (stage fright), but many reported facing several other situations with severe anxiety; for example, meeting new people, talking to authority figures, or entering a roomful of people.

The majority with social anxiety disorder reported fearing 10 or more of the 14 social situations covered by the CCHS, and close to 95% feared 5 or more. For half of the situations, women were slightly more likely than men to report a fear.

Knowing that you are afraid of these feelings more so then the social situations is one of the best self-help tips for social anxiety disorder. "The fear of social public places is the fear itself". Ask yourself, do I have social anxiety; am I truly afraid of people in public? or am I afraid of what will happen to me while in public?

You can take the social phobia Self Assessment quiz at the bottom of this page. Social anxiety self help is the best way for a fast recovery, educate yourself on social phobias, and know what the signs and symptoms are and ultimately, what you are truly afraid of.

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