Social Anxiety IMO

A glimpse of its symptoms, causes and treatment

Social anxiety disorder is all about getting embarrassed and uncomfortable in front of other people due to an uncertain fear, the fear of being judged by the people. This is such a strong phobia that one may have to encounter it while doing his everyday routine work. No doubt there is always some nervousness if one is going to deliver a speech in front of public or meeting with the new people, but what wrong happens with the people suffering from social anxiety disorder is that they start getting worried and nervous many days before about such things happen.

People with social anxiety disorder don’t even feel easy in doing anything common if someone is watching them, like they might get afraid of using a public washroom, or signing a check at a departmental store or in bank or even they may get afraid of drinking any juice or cola at a public place to quench their thirst. Some of the people face such problem only during some certain situations or some specific places while majority of them face this problem in all social circumstances. A person actually don’t have the control most of the times to cover such problem despite he knows that there is nothing to be afraid.

Symptoms of social anxiety disorder

Social anxiety disorder have very clear symptoms i-e the person tend to stay away from people or places, always indulged in a fear of getting judged by other people, starts fearing about any social meeting many days before it happens, often finds difficulty in making any friendship or keeping it for longer time, trembles or get sweat when find people around him, feels self-conscious and embarrassed in little crowded place and might sometime feel nauseous to its stomach when meeting with other people. People suffering from social anxiety disorder wants to talk with people but most of the time they find it very difficult.

Unknown causes

Social anxiety disorder becomes common in families in some cases but it is yet to be known that why some people don’t possess any such feelings while others are seriously disturbed. The researchers are working eagerly on finding the actual causes those results in social anxiety disorder.

Treatment methods

Commonly, for social anxiety disorder, there are two types of treatments in practice that is through medication or counseling with a psychologist. Sometimes both treatment methods are used side by side. It has been observed that not all the treatment methods affect every patient, rather one individual might get better outcome by using one method while the other becomes fine by using the other treatment method.
Psychotherapy is considered to be a better treatment for most of the people suffering from social anxiety disorder. In psychotherapy, a person is told about how one can come up against the negative thoughts and start thinking positive about him. The method of cognitive behavioral therapy uses the idea that the person’s own thoughts and mind set determines that how one should react or behave with other, while situations or meeting with people must not have any impact on his behavior. This type of therapy is mostly used for counseling with people indulged in social anxiety disorder. Sometimes a person is told to practice such situations that induce anxiety upon him. This way a confidence is developed in his mind and he start to behave better in meeting or while talking to people.
Discussing about the medication, there are several types of medicines that have been manufactured to assist in the treatment of the social anxiety disorders. The medicines are referred by the consultant on the basis of the level of social anxiety disorder and the treatment method.