Social anxiety

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…

problems and anxiety of actually having a conversation face to face because children do not know how to behave in these situations. Nevertheless research has found some positive impacts on playing online. In Kaveri Subrahmanyam 2009:1077 recent panel on what children could learn in digital worlds “identified the following topics: socialization, social interaction, problem solving, science…

It was the night before I was to begin my first job and I knew I needed a good night 's sleep. However , I was a nervous wreck ! Every time I closed my eyes, I envisioned the disasters that could occur the next day at my restaurant training. Just the thought of talking to a building full of people almost paralyzed me with fear , let alone taking them glasses full of liquids or plates of steaming food. Needless to say , I am hardly ever in what would considered “ normal” situations with everyday…

Abnormal fear of dogs is also known as cynophobia. It is categorized as a specific phobia, under anxiety disorders. Since dogs are popular pets, cynophobia sufferers face a large number of anxiety triggers. Symptoms Cynophobes experience anxiety at nothing more than thinking of a dog. Thus they feel compelled to avoid a number of places where "man's best-friend" might be. Consequently, the social interactions of cynophobes become limited. As is the case with any other type of phobia, the…

unreasonable worries? Such a problem has become widespread in the U.S and other western countries. In fact, anxiety disorders have become the most common form of mental illness in the U.S, at a whopping 18%. Social anxiety is one of the many types of anxiety disorders and surveys show that up to 7.4% of people in the U.S. or western areas suffer from it in any given year (Comer, 2015). What is Social…

Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent type of psychological disorder in the United States. According to Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (2015), reports show 40 million adults in the United States are diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, which is 18% of the population. Additionally, National surveys show that women are 60% more likely to develop an anxiety disorder than men (National Institute of Mental Health). The American College Health Association reported…

Garrison Keillor’s “How to Write a Letter” gives instructions on how and why a shy person should write a letter. Keillor believes that when someone is shy they don’t put a lot into the conversations they are in, leaving them unknown to people around them. His solution is to write a letter. Keillor explains that, “…a shy person writes a letter. To be known by another person…”(506). He continues on to add that treating writing a letter as an obligation only serves to be counterproductive to the…

Jackson tends to have a small panic attack when he sees a spider, believes something has germs, or when he is faced with heights. His current strategies for seeing a spider are to avoid the spider and to tell an adult, he at times gets too panicked and is unable to tell the adult what is wrong and tends to frighten the other children in class. Jackson’s parents and teachers continue to explain that spiders are not dangerous and that they are helpful in the environment, but it is difficult to…

Interview Anxiety: Tips to Conquer the Fear-Inducing Situation – Part 2 In Part 1 of Interview Anxiety: Tips to Conquer to the Fear-Inducing, we discussed the various methods to overcoming interview anxiety. In this second part of the article, we will discuss various assurance and relaxation techniques you can perform to help alleviate interview anxiety. Techniques to Alleviate Interview Anxiety Relaxation/Confidence Boosting Techniques 1. Posing Powerfully This may seem silly, but…

we 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…