How do I overcome social anxiety?
submitted: Sep 6th 2008 |
by: SergeTaylor |
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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 common thing that all suferers have is a generalised feeling of apprehension and fear and generally expecting the worst to happen in virtually everything they do. Because this has a social component the fear or feeling that they are being constantly judged and never in a good way is usually always present.
Public speaking or being interviewed (interrorgated) are stressful for most people but are especially traumatic for people with social anxiety.
If the condition worsens to the point of a social phobia developing it has become a psychiatric condition that combines extreme fear and anxiety with a disabling self consciousness.
There is always a persistent, intense and even chronic fear of being watched as well as being judged by others and feeling embarrassed as well as humiliated by their own actions. Very often, the trigger may be some social stimulus which may be perceived or actual. There is quite some difficulty for people suffering from social anxiety in overcoming such feelings.
Fortunately, even though the cause is not entirely understood there are methods available today to help people who have to deal with social anxiety. There are a number of conventional therapeutic techniques that can be used as well as a number of less than conventional "alternative" therapies that have helped many people free themselves of the condition.
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