Social Phobia : Afraid to be with others

Social phobia is a mental disorder characterized by anxiety when faced with social or performance situations in public. For example, anxiety arises when the center of attention of others or any fear to be assessed or embarrassing act. Anxiety can also cause symptoms or cognitive autonomous similar to panic attacks.

The symptoms of social phobia can be a fear of speaking in public or in small groups, although its people are well known, fear of eating in restaurants, writing in public, talking to strangers or new, join social groups, or dealing with someone who has the authority . Social phobia is usually accompanied by low self-esteem and fear of being criticized. Complaints can be a sense of shame (red face), hands trembling, nausea, or the urge to urinate, when dealing with social groups. Patients tend to shy away and in extreme circumstances can occur total social isolation.

Actually, why did this happen? The main reason is mostly because people feel insecure, feeling alone, feeling no one protects. The first basic needs of men, the sense of security are not met.

Characteristics:

• Trembling of the hands and feet, like a tremor when anxiety increases are also accompanied by shaking during the speech
• Sweating, especially at the hands of
• Excessive anxiety that is characterized by panic attacks
• Increased tension in muscles, marked easily weary
• Want to pee in a short time
• Frequent headaches
• Insomnia
• Easy to feel tired
• Sense of tightness in the chest
• Dizziness
• Fear of the assessment of others, fear criticism
• Always think negative, think that others judge about her bad
• Difficulty finding new ideas and tend to not be able to think clearly on the problems it faces.
• Isolating themselves
• Feeling herself weak, stupid and always feel worried
• Feeling himself is always seen by others
• Fear to see or meet a stranger
• Feeling unable to compete and behave with other people.
• Avoid crowds or groups of people crowded / certain crowd (a diagnostic must be separated from the symptom tendency agoraphobia)
• Fear to perform in front of others or public

Treatment:

People with social phobia can be back to normal after therapy routinely run uninterrupted. People with social phobia have to undergo the diagnostic test beforehand to determine the initial diagnosis, to see the scores obtained from the Clinical Global Impression Scale (CGI), Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale, or the Social Avoidance and Distress Scale.

While in psychopharmacology , the main treatments used are Selective Serotonin-reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) types of paroxetine (Paxil), benzodiazepines, fluoxetine (Prozac), sertraline (Zoloft), etc. are considered the most efficacious treatment is not harmful to patients. Approximately 80% of social phobia patients can return to normal as routine therapy with no lag time.

Treatment in the therapy given to patients with social phobia is most often introduced to cognitive-behavioral therapy is. In therapy conducted by psychologist, cognitive-behavioral therapy provided patients: social skills (social skills training) that can be done in groups or groups (self-help group), exercises in expressing anxiety appropriately and how to control (exposure techniques), change the wrong way of thinking (cognitive restructuring techniques) and exposure techniques, combining cognitive restructuring.

Besides, it also introduced meditation to reduce muscle tension (relaxation) and copying techniques.