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    Loneliness Over Time

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    Role of Social Anxiety This article studied the mental health symptoms of paranoia and social anxiety and their contribution to loneliness. Loneliness is said to be an emotional state that is characterized by subjective perceptions of social isolation and can be seen as a marker that one’s relationships may be inadequate or failing to meet expectations (Heinrich and Gullone, 2006). The research from population-based studies notes a higher prevalence rate of loneliness in those patients diagnosed with social anxiety disorder (Meltzer et al., 2013). The aim of this research was to test the hypothesis that loneliness at an earlier time will result in higher levels of social anxiety, paranoia,…

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    According to The Social Anxiety Association, social anxiety disorder (SAD) is defined as having a fear of social situations that involve interaction(s) with other people. People with social anxiety fear being negatively judged and evaluated by other people. They often have a misperception of themselves, including their appearance and self-worth (Richards 2013). Social anxiety is the third largest mental health care problem in the world, effecting about 7% of the population (Richards 2013). …

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    In the article entitled “The Pointlessness of Unplugging,” Casey N. Cep disputes the Impracticality of “unplugging” from technology, using “the fifth annual National Day of Unplugging,” as the focal point of his argument. Cep begins by analyzing a website that participant’s submitted photos to of themselves holding signs with explanations of why they chose to unplug. Ceps continues by saying “How quickly the digital age turned into the age of technological anxiety” (Cep, 2014, para. 3). Which…

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    Overprotecting Parents

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    Do children of overprotecting parents suffer more from anxiety? It is not rare to see children having the same emotional difficulties as adults, sometimes their fragile characters are prone to be exposed to stress, depression, and anxiety. When that happens we wonder what caused it. Parents blame themselves, or the environmental causes such as the school, the amount of homework, teachers approach on certain situations, and also the friends these children associate themselves with. Overview My…

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    has insecurities of her physical appearance and as a good friend, I told her that she is beautiful and doesn’t need to change her natural beauty. After, she finally comprehend my point and she decided not to do any drastic changes in her body. Overall, nervousness will try to knock us down but we can fight to end it. Why do we have anxiety in regards of participating in class? Similarly, nervousness and anxiety are frequent while presenting in front of class because of past experiences with…

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    Social Anxiety Do you often feel scared to talk to a person of authority or even a peer? Do you tremble and blush when you are forced to talk to someone new? Do you constantly worry about doing or saying something “stupid” so you just don’t say anything at all? These are common warning signs of Social Anxiety Disorder-or SAD- and if you said yes to any of those questions, you just might have it. Joseph Bennington-Castro, author of the article What is Social Anxiety Disorder?, defines social…

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    similar locations so it really wasn’t meant to be seen as a trend across all Alzheimer’s patients. In their 2015 article, Manning et al. observed the reward systems of people with Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) to see if the functional connectivity of these patient’s reward systems (with focus on the bilateral nucleus accumbens (NAcc-associated with reward anticipation) and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC-associated with encoding the value of the reward)) differed from a “normal” control…

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    The Nature Of Anxiety

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    worse in my eyes, everything was terrifying. "An abnormal and overwhelming sense of apprehension and fear often marked by physiological signs by doubt concerning the reality and nature of the threat, and by self-doubt about one 's capability to cope with it." Webster likes to refer to this as anxiety disorder, I prefer to call it my monster. I was a prey to a monster called anxiety. Anxiety feels as though you are drowning and are unable to swim to the surface become you are bound by the ankles…

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    negative social feedback, interpersonal rumination, depression, and anxiety. Participants were taken from an undergraduate university and given a variety of measures to assess each variable. The authors were able to collect data that supported their hypotheses. They predicted that socially prescribed perfectionism would be positively correlated with interpersonal rumination, and this was true in the study (p < .05). In addition, a significant relationship was found between non-display of…

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    Growing up, I was usually a shy child, always clinging to my parents when in unaccustomed situations or around unfamiliar people. As I grew older, this shyness manifested itself into a sometimes crippling social anxiety. My anxieties have affected my daily life since middle school- the thought of answering a phone when it is someone I don’t know calling often leaves me paralyzed, asking for help in a store is something I can never manage, and speaking out in class is always a nightmare. I would…

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