Social Anxiety Disorder with Comorbidity of Binge-Eating Disorder
Karen is a 20 year old Caucasian female living in a university dorm until recently when she moved back in with her parents. Karen is having issues making new friends and is having a hard time interacting with people in her classes and around her.
Karen has a diagnosis of social anxiety disorder (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). I believe this because she is showing all of the symptoms needed from the DSM-V criteria (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Karen worries constantly about what people will think of her in multiple different social situations. She fears that as she talks to people or walks around campus that they will be able to see how nervous she is. Karen states that her face goes red, her hands shake and she sweats a lot in social situations, showing she is fearful of the situation. Karen avoids social situations all the time, by eating her meals in her dorm room alone, avoiding classes and attempting to avoid talking to other people. Her fear of going to class and dorm activities keeps her from those things, which keeps her from making new friends, this shows her fear is out of proportion to the threat. Karen’s fear has haunted her since she was a kid. She states that she would drop out of classes if they had presentations, because of what people may think of her.
Karen is also on the path of developing another mental disorder, binge eating …show more content…
I would recommend this treatment because of the research that I found in multiple different articles, mainly in Thorgeirsdottir, Bjornosson, and Arnkelsson’s (2015) research. Thorgeirsdottir et al. (2015) found, after using CBGT for a brief therapy, that in a five year follow-up there were signs that the therapy was continuing to work and help the individual with their social anxiety
Karen is a 20 year old Caucasian female living in a university dorm until recently when she moved back in with her parents. Karen is having issues making new friends and is having a hard time interacting with people in her classes and around her.
Karen has a diagnosis of social anxiety disorder (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). I believe this because she is showing all of the symptoms needed from the DSM-V criteria (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Karen worries constantly about what people will think of her in multiple different social situations. She fears that as she talks to people or walks around campus that they will be able to see how nervous she is. Karen states that her face goes red, her hands shake and she sweats a lot in social situations, showing she is fearful of the situation. Karen avoids social situations all the time, by eating her meals in her dorm room alone, avoiding classes and attempting to avoid talking to other people. Her fear of going to class and dorm activities keeps her from those things, which keeps her from making new friends, this shows her fear is out of proportion to the threat. Karen’s fear has haunted her since she was a kid. She states that she would drop out of classes if they had presentations, because of what people may think of her.
Karen is also on the path of developing another mental disorder, binge eating …show more content…
I would recommend this treatment because of the research that I found in multiple different articles, mainly in Thorgeirsdottir, Bjornosson, and Arnkelsson’s (2015) research. Thorgeirsdottir et al. (2015) found, after using CBGT for a brief therapy, that in a five year follow-up there were signs that the therapy was continuing to work and help the individual with their social anxiety