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Social anxiety disorder may be easily mis­dia­gnosed or even be mistaken as a form of shyness. Having said that, many suf­ferers of social anxiety are not even aware that they are exper­i­encing an anxiety disorder. Approx­imately seven percent of the pop­u­lation suffers from social anxiety. Recent years have shown progress in treating this type of disorder.

Social anxiety can be defined as fear of social occasions and situ­ations and the inter­action with people due to feelings of negative eval­uation, inad­equacy, embar­rassment, humi­liation and self-​​consciousness. This form of phobia provoked by the social situ­ations exceeds the ordinary shyness when it ulti­mately leads to complete or excessive social avoidance and invariably causing sub­stantial social impairment. People with this disorder are often the world’s loners.

The physical symptoms of social anxiety disorder are asso­ciated with two or more of the signs that are caused by per­sistent fear or worry, negative feeling of embar­rassment and humi­liation such as rest­lessness, feeling of fatigue, trembling and sweaty palms, lack of focus, muscle tension or sleep dis­turbance. There is a high pos­sibility when you experience irrit­ability, shortness of breath and intense anxiety and worry that suggest that you are suf­fering from a social anxiety disorder. Social anxiety symptoms closely resemble ordinary shyness but they can be dif­fer­en­tiated in terms of the intensity and extreme experience of anxiety and tension.

In the early stages of the disorder, it is critical to receive the appro­priate medical inter­vention by drug-​​based med­ication or non-​​drug based methods or com­bination of both. Alternative medicines have also recently grown in pop­ularity, of which therapy is often used widely for healing social anxiety. There are no clear guidelines on the best course of treatment. It may take several attempts and method or pre­scription changes to find the one that works for you.

This article was ori­ginally pub­lished on www.HypnotherapyClinic.info by Con­sultant Clinical Hyp­no­therapist & Pys­cho­therapist Noel Bradford –

As a pro­fes­sional therapist Noel help people with everything that you would expect including giving up smoking, con­trolling their weight, dealing with fears and phobias. However his services go far beyond this and encompass things that affect everyone at some time in their life, such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks, stress, and low self esteem.

He  also has detailed spe­cialist training in several areas including but not limitted to Irrittable Bowel Syndrome and Pyscho­sexual matters that affect men such as Errectile Dys­function and Pre­mature Ejac­u­lation as well as those affecting women such as Hyper Desire Disorder, Vaginisums, and Dys­pareunia.

Ori­ginally posted 2010-​​01-​​25 14:35:00.