How do I overcome social anxiety?
Posted on September 6, 2008
Filed Under Anxiety |
Despite the fact that social anxiety is one of the most commonly occuring psychological disorders very little is known about how and why it happens and why it continues to become even more common.
Social anxiety can show itself in a number of unique ways. Someone can experience it as a feeling of being watched or followed all the time. Even though they really know this is not the case they find it impossible to shake the feelings.
Common everyday tasks that we take for granted can be terrifying ordeals for someone with social anxiety disorder. Something as simple as opening the door when someone knocks can fill them with paralysing fear
The bottom line issue that everyone suffering from social anxiety is suffering with is an overall feeling of fear and worry about the outside world and especially in relation to people and social situations. They worry constantly about how others see them as they feel that others are never looking at them in a positive way.
While most people will have some issues with job interviews and public speaking situations for example if you suffer with social anxiety these are literally paralysing events that are virtually impossible to perform.
Oftentimes this generalised fear will turn into a full on social phobia which is a much more severe form of the condition that has now become a psychiatric disorder. The signs here in addition to the extreme self consciousness is severe fear and anxiety to go with it.
And as always there is the associated chronic worry about being constantly scrutinized and evaluated by others and the fear of making a fool of themselves or embarrassing themselves in some way
Today as the numbers of people with social anxiety increases many methods, both conventional (from medication to psychotherapy) and alternative (from acupuncture to hypnosis) are being offered as possible solutions. There is something you can do to help with your social anxiety.
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