What causes your social anxiety?
Social anxiety or social phobia as it is sometimes known causes people to become totally overwhelmed by everyday situations. Situations that most of us take no notice of can drive a person who suffers with anxiety into deep fear and sometimes panic.
Not everyone with anxiety disorder will have the same symptoms, we are all different so anxiety will have different effects on all of us. Some people will fear fear itself and fall into the ongoing circle of fear and anxiety while others fear nothing apart from being embarrassed.
Do you feel sweaty and sick when going into a new situation? Do you start trembling and feel your heart pounding in your chest? If this sounds like something you experience every time you are faced with a new social experience or situation then you may have or be developing an anxiety disorder.
The symptoms of social anxiety often lead to severe embarrassment for the sufferer and that in itself starts the whole cycle of symptoms and further embarrassment. This is why so many people who suffer from social anxiety are only comfortable around family and friends that they have known a long time.
Anxiety attacks at work can have some very detrimental effects, sometimes it will as small a thing as your unhappiness with meeting in groups other times it can be as serious as your boss thinking you are incompetent due to your inability to deal with people.
Fear of talking in public is understandable to most of us, but if you were suffering from a social anxiety disorder you may well find that standing up in a meeting at work would fill you with fear and panic. This reaction would definitely not bring your best work out of you, you may also be to scared to use the restroom at work. Your anxiety disorder could also stop you from ever enjoying a lunch with workmates at a restaurant.
People that have social anxiety disorder worry for days and sometimes weeks before going to a social situation that they are fearing. The disorder may become severe and can interfere with work or other events that you may have in your life. There are many people that have social anxiety disorder. Women can be more likely then men to have social anxiety disorder.
Social anxiety disorder usually will start at a early age. You can be shy and still not experience the same intense anxiety that people do with social anxiety disorder. Shy people usually do not avoid certain social situations like people that have social anxiety disorders. Social anxiety disorder can overtake someone’s life if they allow it to.
