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Overcome Social Anxiety

A Self Help Guide to Manage and Stop Social Anxiety Disorder. Improve Your Self-Esteem and Confidence to Overcome Shyness

by Alison Care

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Each one of us has experienced social anxiety in different contexts and with different intensities. Think of how you felt when about to make a presentation before a panel or before the board. Think of how you feel when meeting a new person. In these few illustrations of social anxiety, you probably felt a little scared, unease, and uncertain if you would navigate through the social interaction. Fortunately, the anxiety was not disabling, and you managed to navigate through the task or situation with a little impediment to your delivery and productivity. Unfortunately for sufferers of social phobia, the social anxiety is intense is disabling and overwhelming that the person suffers physiological, emotional, and behavioral adverse reaction by the mere imagination of being in social interactions.

Relatedly, this book offers an introduction to what constitutes social anxiety and what qualifies as a social anxiety disorder. After orienting the reader on what qualifies as social anxiety disorder, he or she is taken through specific scenarios of social anxiety that should attract intervention in the form of treatment options. In this book, the reader is introduced to existing therapies for treating social anxiety, the causes of social anxiety, and natural remedies used for social anxiety.

Social confidence is critical in overcoming social anxiety in the long-term, and an entire chapter is dedicated to suggesting ways of enhancing social confidence with a particular focus on self-esteem. Enhancing social skills is another critical aspect of addressing social anxiety as an individual learns ways and tricks of initiating, belonging, and challenging social interactions.

Social phobia concerns extreme fear that eventually creates consistent and long-term feelings of inferiority, inadequacy, embarrassment, self-consciousness, depression, and humiliation. Individuals that become anxious in an irrational manner in social contexts but appear composed and rational when alone are probably manifesting social anxiety. Social anxiety was formerly known as social phobia. Globally, an estimated 7% of the population suffers from some form of social anxiety, and the lifetime prevalence rate for manifesting social anxiety is 13% to 14%.

Equally important is that social anxiety can be specific or generalized. An example of specific social anxiety may include the fear of speaking in front of groups, and an example of generalized social anxiety includes feeling nervous, anxious, and uncomfortable in almost all contexts. Most individuals with social anxiety have a generalized type of social anxiety. Generalized social anxiety manifests as depression, anticipatory anxiety, indecision, worry, and self-blame across most life situations.

In most cases, social anxiety starts during teenage years and may improve when gets older, but for most people, it persists irrespective of age. In particular, social anxiety is an intense fear that does not ease and affects routine activities, relationships, self-confidence, and work. Most people occasionally worry about social situations, but people with social anxiety feel highly worried during, before, and after them.

An individual with social anxiety will fear routine activities such as starting conversations, meeting strangers, working, speaking on the phone, or shopping. One will worry or avoid social activities that include group conversations, parties, and eating with a company if they have social anxiety. People that always worry about doing something they feel is embarrassing, such as sweating, blushing, or appearing incompetent may be exhibiting social anxiety. If you have social anxiety, you will find it challenging to accomplish things when others are watching as you may feel like you are being watched and judged all the time.

Additional, social anxiety makes one fear criticism, shun eye contact, or show low self-esteem. Social anxiety tends to make one feel sweaty, sick, tremble, or experience a pounding heartbeat known as palpitations. Having panic attacks in which one experiences an overwhelming sense of anxiety and fear that lasts for a few minutes. Most individuals with social anxiety also have other mental health issues such as body dysmorphic disorder, depression, and generalized anxiety disorder.

In brief, one should seek help if they feel that they have social anxiety and where they feel it is having a significant impact on their life. Social anxiety is a common problem, but fortunately, they are effective interventions to reverse its effects. Like any mental health condition, most people will feel reluctant to ask for help, but most health practitioners are aware that most people are affected and will gladly help. General practitioners may start by asking one about their behaviors, feelings, and symptoms to determine more about the anxiety in the patients social situations.

Notably, social anxiety is beyond shyness, as it is a strong fear of wanting to avoid people and other social interactions. Unlike social anxiety, shyness is a mild fear and does not significantly affect the quality of life that one lives. Most people get a mild fear before meeting new people, but once the interaction starts, most people easily cope and even enjoy the interaction. However, when we become captive to intense fear, then it becomes a phobia, and it is for this reason that social anxiety was initially called social phobia. The intense and unjustified fear exhibited in social anxiety is mainly due to worrying that people may be critical of you and that you might do something embarrassing.