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Social Phobia, also known as social anxiety disorder, is a type of mental health illness. It is the extreme fear of being spotlighted or watched and judged by everyone. This is a serious issue that can affect work, school, and other daily interactions can cause significant anxiety, self-consciousness and embarrassment.

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Being afraid of:

Talking to strangers

Speaking in public

Dating

Making eye contact

Entering rooms

Using public restrooms

Going to parties

Eating in front of other people

Going to school or work

Starting conversations

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1. Fear of situations in which may be judged
2. Worrying about feeling embarrassed or humiliated
3. Intense fear of interacting or talking with strangers
4. Fear that others will notice that they look anxious
5. Avoiding situations where you might be the center of attention
6. Having anxiety in anticipation of a feared activity or event
7. Spending time after a social situation analyzing your performance and identifying flaws in your interactions
8. Expecting the worst possible consequences from a negative experience during a social situation

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Inherited:
Social phobia can be inherited. Although it is not corroborative whether it is due to genetics or learned behavior, social phobia tend to run in families.
Physical:
It can also be due to a physical cause of having overactive amygdala that can cause a heightened fear response and lead to social phobia.
Environmental/Social:
Most of all, it could be caused by environmental/social factors. People could develop this mental illness after unpleasant social situations. Social phobia can also associate to parents who modelled their child’s anxious behavior in social situations or were too protective and compellable of their child.

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Emotionally, patients who have social phobias feel panicked, awkward, humiliated and embarrassed commonly. Patients can also feel that they have feelings that are out of control. Helplessness is also one of the emotions patients may get when noticing that the phobia has affected their lives from different aspects.

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Physical affects on patients include:
1. blushing
2. sweating
3. trembling
4. nausea
5. an increased heart rate
6. the mind “going blank”

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Socially, social phobia can cause extreme fear in social settings. Patients have trouble talking to people, meeting new people, and attending social gatherings. They also intensely fear judgments from people around them.

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If anyone in my community have this issue and needs to get help, they should talk with their family first and try to dig deeper in the problem. Family members can try to comfort and understand that person’s feelings. Then, together they should book therapy appointments with doctors and therapists at hospitals that will give them treatments to help them get better.

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How can I Support people with this Mental Illness

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How can I Support people with this Mental Illness

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Some ways that I can help someone with social phobia is one, going up to the person friendly and try to make friends with them, two, complimenting them to let them know that they are wonderful and that most people are positive and nice, three, telling a teacher or an adult about this happening so that they can contact his/her parents to talk about this situation and find a solution.

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The program is named Anxiety Network. Their website address is

https://therapy.anxietynetwork.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw4cOEBhDMARIsAA3XDRgSlOTOiM7OywTpN0UGT4WrVgN-FIb5d9gw729AeLjNqxb7Dtd3vQ0aAsY_EALw_wcB

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They serve people who suffer from social phobia and social anxiety.

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The program is a virtual program that people can access from any device at any time. It offers audio therapy sessions, written therapy handouts, supporting videos, supplemental handouts and materials, therapy songs, rational statement posters, and discussion forum.

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The goal of this program is for the clients to overcome social phobia and live normal anxiety-free lives.

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Clients will watch therapy sessions everyday for 30 minutes. They will also follow the What-To-Do-This-Week list so they have activities to do that will help them treat their social phobias. Typically, clients will spend 25 weekly sessions to overcome their social phobia.

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It is definitely very important as it affects our overall moods and impacts our lives. Resilience would be a really helpful tool as it will help you overcome and recover from mental problems.