Social Anxiety - How to Master It
Many people look at social anxiety as a high degree of shyness.
However, we are talking about something quite different.
People with this anxiety disorder can have their whole life ruined; even small and trivial things like paying a visit or taking a train or bus can seem completely impossible for them simply because of the pain the anxiety can cause.
Social anxiety is a diagnoses psychiatrist's use when a person's anxiety, in social situations is so strong that he or she has severe problems with functioning in their everyday lives.
Many of these patients admit that their thoughts, feelings and actions are dysfunctional, but nevertheless they are not able to stop it.
The disorder can be divided in two distinct groups; specialized and generalized.
The Specialized disorder is anxiety that occurs in specific social situations, like partying with strangers and walking in a crowd of people.
Generalized anxiety involves an intense and chronic fear of all situations that involve social interactions.
When the disorder is generalized, the anxiety has to do with the fear of being judged by others as well as the risk of being embarrassed or humiliated in some way by the patient's own actions.
These patients basically don't trust themselves to interact with other people feeling that either they will do something to embarrass themselves, or other people will judge them too harshly and be critical of them.
Although this disorder's main symptoms like severe anxiety and fear are psychological, it is also accompanied by several physical symptoms.
High pulse, heart palpitations, dizziness, excessive sweating, trembling and stammering are just a few.
If the patient is upset enough, both types of this anxiety disorder can also bring on panic attacks.
The severity and duration of these symptoms varies from patient to patient.
To deal with the pain anxiety social situations cause, some people medicate themselves with drugs or alcohol, sometimes to an extreme.
This will not work for getting rid of their anxiety but will rather create drug addiction problems in addition, as if the anxiety problems weren't enough.
It is a false belief that substance abuse can increase their confidence in social situations, which some patients claim.
It's understandable that a condition that impacts so many parts of the patient's life is causing a huge demand for solutions.
The manifold of treatment solutions reflects this demand.
Don't despair because there are methods available for treating social anxiety effectively; like traditional psychological approaches as well as alternative treatments, traditional and natural remedies, acupuncture, NLP, hypnosis, thought-field therapy and numerous of others.
However, we are talking about something quite different.
People with this anxiety disorder can have their whole life ruined; even small and trivial things like paying a visit or taking a train or bus can seem completely impossible for them simply because of the pain the anxiety can cause.
Social anxiety is a diagnoses psychiatrist's use when a person's anxiety, in social situations is so strong that he or she has severe problems with functioning in their everyday lives.
Many of these patients admit that their thoughts, feelings and actions are dysfunctional, but nevertheless they are not able to stop it.
The disorder can be divided in two distinct groups; specialized and generalized.
The Specialized disorder is anxiety that occurs in specific social situations, like partying with strangers and walking in a crowd of people.
Generalized anxiety involves an intense and chronic fear of all situations that involve social interactions.
When the disorder is generalized, the anxiety has to do with the fear of being judged by others as well as the risk of being embarrassed or humiliated in some way by the patient's own actions.
These patients basically don't trust themselves to interact with other people feeling that either they will do something to embarrass themselves, or other people will judge them too harshly and be critical of them.
Although this disorder's main symptoms like severe anxiety and fear are psychological, it is also accompanied by several physical symptoms.
High pulse, heart palpitations, dizziness, excessive sweating, trembling and stammering are just a few.
If the patient is upset enough, both types of this anxiety disorder can also bring on panic attacks.
The severity and duration of these symptoms varies from patient to patient.
To deal with the pain anxiety social situations cause, some people medicate themselves with drugs or alcohol, sometimes to an extreme.
This will not work for getting rid of their anxiety but will rather create drug addiction problems in addition, as if the anxiety problems weren't enough.
It is a false belief that substance abuse can increase their confidence in social situations, which some patients claim.
It's understandable that a condition that impacts so many parts of the patient's life is causing a huge demand for solutions.
The manifold of treatment solutions reflects this demand.
Don't despair because there are methods available for treating social anxiety effectively; like traditional psychological approaches as well as alternative treatments, traditional and natural remedies, acupuncture, NLP, hypnosis, thought-field therapy and numerous of others.
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