Social Anxiety Information

Social Anxiety Treatment – Medications Review

Dec 14

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In recent years Social Anxiety (SA) has become more recognized as a separate form of Anxiety Disorder. Anti-anxiety medications have been prescribed and in addition some medications originally developed for treating depression have been shown [...]

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Social Anxiety Treatment – What Are Your Options?

Dec 8

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Understanding your Options – Seeking Professional Help
Treatments Available
There are a variety of approaches to treating Social Anxiety (SA). However, they basically come down to a two step approach.
Step 1 – reduce the anxiety.
Step 2 – encourage the person to engage in real life activities and, through repeated exposure to the feared situation, become comfortable in [...]

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Social Anxiety Treatment – Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)

Oct 6

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Cognitive Behavior Therapy – Theory
As noted in the introduction, people with SA are able to experience anxiety through their thoughts alone, without being in the actual situation. However, the thoughts themselves may often be distorted. Since there is avoidance of the feared situation, this thinking does not get corrected by reality.
With CBT the [...]

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What is Social Anxiety?

Sep 13

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Social anxiety is where a person is nervous or uncomfortable in social situations. The fear is often one of doing something embarrassing, making a bad impression, or being judged negatively by others. Social anxiety may be specific or generalized. In the case of specific anxiety it is only triggered by one or [...]

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