Social Anxiety Disorder
By Dave Kettner

Social disorder is an excessive, persistent fear of social or performance situations.  It's possible that the child of one or two shy parents may inherit genetic code that amplifies shyness into social disorder.  Social disorder can make you feel trapped, shut away from the world.  Social disorder is also known as social phobia.  We also know that traumatic or stressful life events occurring at an early developmental stage may increase the risk of social disorder.

Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety disorders are often debilitating chronic conditions, which can be present from an early age or begin suddenly after a triggering event.  The term disorder can cover a range of severities from general social anxieties to panic disorders.  However, distinguishing among different disorders is important, since accurate diagnosis is more likely to result in effective treatment and a better prognosis.  A family history of disorders is often suggestive of the possibility of an disorder.  This symptom of can be crippling to the sufferer and may lead to avoidance behavior.

Social disorder can have a severe and negative impact on your life, interfering with your school, social, and professional relationships.  Another social phobia is love-shyness, which most adversely affects certain men.  Most people feel shy or self-conscious in social situations.  People with social want to be "normal" socially, they want to make friends and they want to be involved and engaged in social interactions.  High rates of alcoholism and other substance abuse, family difficulties and problems, lack of personal relationships, and difficulty in obtaining and continuing

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with employment are among the everyday problems experienced by many people with social disorder.

Phobias

People with phobias have especially powerful imaginations, so they vividly anticipate terrifying consequences from encountering such feared objects as knives, bridges, blood, enclosed places, certain animals or situations.  You may be wondering if the symptoms you have been experiencing are symptoms of a social phobia.  People with social phobia fear that their behavior will lead to negative judgment by others, even though they recognize this fear is illogical.  Warning signs of social phobia include: Intense worry for days or even weeks before an upcoming social situation.  Some individuals may develop social phobia after a particularly negative social experience.

Treatment for Social Disorders

Treatment options need to be introduced as soon as a diagnosis is made to alleviate the impairment to the sufferer's life, and to prevent the further development of other related conditions such as depression, avoidant personality disorder, eating disorders and drug and alcohol abuse.  The choices in treatment include behavioral therapy, lifestyle changes, and/or pharmaceutical therapy (medications).  If you experience severe anxiety, you might turn to alcohol or drugs to alleviate your pain, although eventually the substance abuse becomes another problem in your life and makes treatment and healing increasingly difficult.  The most frequently used form of psychotherapy for the treatment of social disorder, or social phobia, is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).  Looking into these options can also help you to learn as much as you can about social disorder, and the many forms of effective treatment.