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    What Is Social Anxiety?

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    lose control over their life because of constant unreasonable worries? Such a problem has become widespread in the U.S and other western countries. In fact, anxiety disorders are the most common form of mental illness in the U.S, measured at an alarming 18% prevalence rate. Social anxiety is just one of the many types of anxiety disorders, and surveys conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health show that up to 7.4% of people in the U.S. or western areas suffer from it in any given…

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    Social Anxiety In Schools

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    focused on social anxiety and how it affects adolescents, emerging adults, and families as a whole. Social anxiety is very common in families and people who use social networking technologies. Social anxiety is a form of anxiety that is brought out in social situations in which could be humiliation or embarrassment. Social anxiety has more of an onset in childhood and will follow them while they grow up to be an adult (Helping Social Anxiety In High School). In the “Familial Accumulation of…

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    fear is excessive and unreasonable, people with social anxiety disorder feel powerless against their anxiety. They are terrified that they will humiliate or embarrass themselves. Some everyday tasks become immensely cumbersome and even seem impossible to accomplish. One of the most troublesome activities for someone suffering from social anxiety is establishing friendly, casual, and romantic relationships. Those who have not experienced social anxiety may not realize how difficult it may be for…

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    fear, a kind of anxiety disorder in which the individual has a relentless dread of a situation, living creature, place or thing. They are categorized into 3 main types: specific, social and agoraphobia. They differ from fears as they cause some level of impairment, and medications and psychotherapy are 2 main methods of treatment. ________________________________________________________________…

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    Then there is Social anxiety disorder. This means someone is afraid of being badly judged by people and embarrassed in public. They can have these kinds of feelings, such as stage fright, fear of intimacy, and fear of humiliation. This causes people to avoid social situations and human interactions. There is a difference between shyness and social anxiety. Shyness is just being quiet and not talking out loud much, S.A.D is where the fear of others judgement talks over one person's life to the…

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    Nadine Case Study

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    are observing extreme symptoms of anxiety involving any kind of interaction with people outside of her home. Although her mother describes her behavior as “long withstanding shyness”, her inability to speak, compelled confinement to her house, and panic-related somatic responses when interacting with others suggest a much more severe diagnoses than “long withstanding shyness”. We think that it is most appropriate to diagnose Nadine with Social Anxiety Disorder, F40.10. Also applicable to…

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    Phobia Case Studies

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    There are so many case studies on Phobia, and lots of people and children that are born with it or may come to discover that they have a disorder. It’s a fear one gets of something as a Bee or to something as into heights. We may think having a Phobia may not affect us bit it’s such a bigger deal then we may think its affects the life of one there relationship even there work averment. Phobia comes from genes of a family member that might have a phobia and we never know about it, it’s something…

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    process: because medicalization frequently reproduces power dynamics and social structures, it may create both new inequalities and exacerbate existing ones. This results in some groups being subject to greater social control than others, as well as new forms of medical discrimination. These consequences of medicalization have often been attributed to its individualizing effects, as it is people’s bodies and not the surrounding social environment that is seen as the cause of illness. According…

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    Low Social Anxiety

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    with high social anxiety (HSA) and low social anxiety (LSA) individuals to find out if those individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD) impaired reactions when present different facial expressions in a controlled situation. Soares (2015) found that individuals with social anxiety disorder are susceptible to negative facial expressions, efficiency and effectiveness decrease due to a deep rooted evolutionary origin, and lower response times in those individuals with high social anxiety or low…

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    Funtional organization is defined as the principle of specialization based on function or role. So, when discussing functional organization it is my understanding that this concept refers to the idea that regions communicate based on a larger goal (the brain works together in ways that make sense in coordination with the person’s actions and thought processes).The functional organization of the brain is best categorized as a flexible, but constrained network of interrelated regions. That being…

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