social anxiety vs social phobia

I have suffered from what I seem to think is social anxiety/phobia. When I am in the public eye I feel like everyone is looking at me and talking about me. Sometimes I get so bad I have to leave the public situation immediately. Sometimes I won't leave my home for days and here lately weeks. (Recently lost my job) If I do need to go to the store I will take my brother with me so he can go in and get what I need.

This type of therapy has been proven in the research to be effective. With social phobia, guided exposure to anxiety provoking situations in combination with cognitive restructuring has been proven to help significantly with social phobia. Medications also are usually useful but true change will not happen with medications alone. But, yes. A consultation first to assess the severity and therapy that would be of the best fit for the adolescent.

I am 31 years old and I complain that I don't have many friends yet I avoid social situations almost always. It's a toss up for me to decide which is worse, having no one to hang out with or to put myself into a social situation where I may meet new people.I take Paxil to get me thru regular day to day activities. I was in prison for most of my 20"s and getting out made my social phobia worse because I only knew how to socialize with inmates and correctional staff.

You are correct that the Abilfy will not help with your social anxiety. And while I do not mean to imply that your social worker has not helped you, very few, if any, social workers are trained psychologists who can help you with this problem. It may be worth considering professional therapy to beat this phobia once and for all.

It sounds like social anxiety. You should conceder talking to a therapist or a psychologist. Good luck, I hope things get better for you.

I have a question about social anxiety accompanied with phobia. I am a mother of 5 and I have had social anxiety since I was young. I am now 45. I bagan to drink and use drugs at an early age, to help bring comfort when I was around people. I had it pretty well managed, by making myself get out. I have had counseling in the past, but I never discussed this with the counsler, because I really didn't think it was a major problem for me. My 2nd son is turning 16 next month.

I am suffering from social phobia, my symptoms are some times I hesitate to speak or joke with my friends, I get nervoused to meet with my friends or relatives, this is happening to me from the past 7 years Itry keep my confidence boost but no progress. should i take medicine or there is other way to cure????

There are new medications for social anxiety disorders and depression. See a Doctor. They can help get you fixed up. (I've had similar issues, due to being raped when I was 15.

Was of SSRI for 3 years and was put back on the Paxil for social phobia, no panic disorder this time, and had gain 60 pounds in less than 3 months, when my PDoc saw this, he ask me to stop the Paxil and give to me some sample box of the newer Celexa at the time (1999) and I start it at 20 mg, increase at 40 mg after 1month and it was doing nothing at all for my anxiety and the social phobia, also, I had gain another 20 pounds in 2 months on the Celexa and my PDoc was a lot worried about my we

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_phobia I would suggest you to explore this option and let us know if you need more help.

Previous studies have led researchers to believe that individuals with social anxiety disorder or social phobia have too low levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin. A new study, however, shows that the situation is exactly the opposite. Individuals with social phobia make too much serotonin. The more serotonin they produce, the more anxious they are in social situations. Many people feel anxious if they have to speak in front of an audience or socialise with others.

I've suffered with social phobia my entire life. Finally got it properly treated in my early 20s with therapy/meds. Recently my doc and I decided to try to out tapering me off of Prozac. We decided to stay on. When I got down to 20mg after 8 weeks I was neglecting hygiene and stopped going to the gym. Looking at a store would provoke panic before I went in. Thus we went back up to 40mg. After 12 weeks I would still have trouble with eye contact and going into social situations.

s are very good not only for depression but for social phobia, panic attacks, general anxiety and OCD as well as several other anxiety disorders. Depending on the person they can take anything from a couple of weeks to a month or so to take full effect but for most people once they have settled into the system a big improvement is seen. Im sure the doctor will choose a suitable SSRI for you seeing as you are still young.

1. A person approaches me and starts talking 2. I think "Uh oh, I'm locked into a conversation. I hope I'm not sweating." 3. I start feeling a little flushed in the face. 4. I think "I'm sweating!" and of course I start sweating more. So, the more I worry about sweating in front of people, the more I sweat. It's kind of amazing how it works on cue. Normally, I'd have to play 30 minutes of basketball to break a sweat.

s behaviour appear to suggest that he might be suffering from anxiety - probably social phobia. I might suggest you do a google search of the term "childhood anxiety" or something similar to see if the description matches that of your son. You will find a lot of reading on the internet re this very common mental health issue for children as well as many suggestions on books that can be purchased from the local bookstore, on-line or borrowed from your local bookstore.

The disorder is linked to significantly diminished quality of life and can be co-morbid with major depressive disorder and social phobia, also known as chronic social anxiety." http://en.wikipedia.

I have had social anxiety for many years now, I never had it when I was a child I think it came onto me because I was a late bloomer in school so I always felt like I wasn't part of the crew in school. I always felt like I was behind the times. I suffer from social anxiety and blushing. Every time I speak to people in public I start to blush. It doesn't matter how many people I talk to, it can be maybe 1 or 2 and it depends on where it is.

Also, is it possible that by just talking to a psychologist, that I could be cured of this thing which is basically destroying me life? I copied the above sentence from your posting. The answer is "yes" and the the talking part is called "cognitive behavioral therapy" or CBT. Social phobia and social anxiety are the same thing so you found the correct forum.

What yes, is that in my past a few years before my PTM yes, it was a strange thought but it had to do with something like social phobia. That is why I sometimes attribute this to the PATM, I read articles where there are experiments that show; In the face of anxiety, stress or a state of panic, our body emits a certain chemical that invites sunken protection.... More or less, my hypothesis goes that way.

I am interested to know about anxiety, phobia, fears...does lamictal help here? people differ in opinion about it. Yesterday i thought of quitting work because they asked me to sit and explain my work to others. Somehow i had some fears or call it social phobia this i suppose has to do with my old experience in college an old knot in my personality. When exposed to an exam i panic. it happens on and off. Perhaps these obcessions led my old pdoc assume i was originally OCD and perhaps not.

I was just wondering if anyone that has social phobia or social anxiety have ever tried hypnotherapy for a cure. I was just wondering, because I have a really bad case of social phobia due to my asperger's syndrome. I'm currently trying to get over it on my own, but it is really hard. If anyone has tried this for a cure, please let me know how it worked. Thanks!

Honestly, based solely on what you describe, it sounds more like a language/developmental problem than a social problem. If it were social anxiety he would be more likely to not respond at all instead of giving an illogical answer that would call more attention to him.

Because of this scar and bad hairstyle, I had developed an intense social phobia and chronic depression for almost one year. Your help would save my life. I cannot think out of a box right now,.

Our granddaughter is struggling to get to sleep at night - often not until after midnight. She suffers from severe social phobia and is currently taking a low dose of an antidepressant. She was doing well until about two months ago. She claims school is not bothering her and she is not afraid to sleep alone. I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions to better help her to relax and ease her mind.

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