What Causes Your Social Anxiety?

By: Kathy Nelson.

Social anxiety or social phobia as it is sometimes known causes people to become totally overwhelmed by everyday situations. Situations that most of us take no notice of can drive a person who suffers with anxiety into deep fear and sometimes panic.

Not everyone with anxiety disorder will have the same symptoms, we are all different so anxiety will have different effects on all of us. Some people will fear fear itself and fall into the ongoing circle of fear and anxiety while others fear nothing apart from being embarrassed.

When you are entering into a new place or a new situation you may feel a tinge of nerves. The feelings that someone who has an anxiety disorder has will make your tinge of nerves seem like nothing, they may well be trembling, their heart could be pounding, they will feel sick and be sweaty.

The feeling of embarrassment that the person with social anxiety suffers from can be so severe that they stop going out into public places. Over time they spend more and more time with only family members and withdraw from their social circle more and more.

Other people with social anxiety only fear certain social situations. Some people become anxious when they are dealing with people in higher positions such as their boss. This affects their positions at work and can be detrimental to their career.

Fear of talking in public is understandable to most of us, but if you were suffering from a social anxiety disorder you may well find that standing up in a meeting at work would fill you with fear and panic. This reaction would definitely not bring your best work out of you, you may also be to scared to use the restroom at work. Your anxiety disorder could also stop you from ever enjoying a lunch with workmates at a restaurant.

Days or maybe weeks before your planned social engagement most of us are probably not thinking about it to much, unless it is a life changing event like a wedding. Someone who has social anxiety disorder will start worrying about it weeks in advance and as it gets closer the anxiety will build and build. Anxiety can feed on itself, the more anxious you feel the more you worry about having an anxiety attack.

Social anxiety disorder usually will start at a early age. You can be shy and still not experience the same intense anxiety that people do with social anxiety disorder. Shy people usually do not avoid certain social situations like people that have social anxiety disorders. Social anxiety disorder can overtake someone's life if they allow it to.





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