What is Social Anxiety? Social anxiety disorder, also known as social phobia, is a psychological condition marked by excessive and irrational fear and avoidance of social situations. It is often wrongly confused with shyness, which is simply a lack of confidence in meeting new people, and is quite normal in people with a more diffident personality -- in fact, most shy people can function quite well in society. Social phobia, on the other hand, can be crippling, and in some...

SOCIAL ANXIETY - OVERVIEW Social anxiety, SAD, or sometimes social phobia, is a strong fear of social and public situations, for example eating in a restaurant, to shop and stand in line in stores or talk to someone you do not know. Social phobia can also mean a fear of blushing, fainting or being watched an audited. Often these fears are irrational and exaggerated, but occasionally there can be real physical problems behind them. Social phobia often leads to a...

If you've been perusing the internet on the topic of social anxiety, chances are you already have a pretty good idea of what social anxiety is. To briefly summarize, when one is faced with certain situations, their mind creates and reacts with thoughts of dread and fear of embarrassment or judgment, and a repeated behavior or physiological response happens in response to the anticipated situation. Avoidance, fleeing, sweating, and / or trembling are only a few effects. It is a...