Social Anxiety Disorder is a diagnostic category in the psychology text DSM-IV.
The DSM-IV lists all the diagnostic classes and also the statistics related to them for therapists and psychiatrists.
Mental and emotional problems are diagnosed by consulting this manual.
Social anxiety isn't a real disorder.
Instead, the anxiety is a cluster of anxious responses to social situations.
Normal function must be impaired in many areas at once in order for the illness to be diagnosed as a disorder.
This disorder additionally goes by the terms social anxiety and social phobia.
Patients with anxiety disorders might experience symptoms that are triggered only by very specific circumstances.
For others, this may be a little part of general anxiety disorder, and treatment could be more challenging.
Twice as many ladies as men are diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder.
Women may be diagnosed more often merely because they are not stigmatized by an anxiety disorder to the same degree as men.
Social disorder symptoms have an effect on the general population at the rate of about 13.
3 percent.
Symptoms Symptoms of the disorder can be physical or largely emotional and mental.
Wide-ranging symptoms of the disorder include: • Sever panic.
• Sleeping problems and bad dreams.
• Fear of any social situation.
• Fear of only certain social situations.
• Avoiding the feared situation begins to cause problems.
Friendships may be lost or job performance might suffer.
• Blushing and copious sweating.
• Speedy pulse and racing heartbeat.
• Breathing problems and hyperventilation.
• Feelings of nausea and unpredictable vomiting.
• Gastrointestinal distress and IBS.
• Tingling or numbness in the face, hands, and face.
• Uncontrollable stuttering.
• Drug abuse or alcoholism.
Diagnosis Social anxiety is much more than merely shyness or discomfort at social functions.
A disorder is diagnosed by checking off the following seven symptom criteria: 1.
Persistent, intense worry of social situations in which the anxious person is subject to scrutiny by others.
2.
Expose to the feared situation results in an almost immediate anxiety response.
Panic attack is the most common first response.
3.
The client is aware that his or her fear is irrational.
4.
Normal functioning is significantly impaired by avoidance of the feared situation.
5.
A minimum of six months of extreme fear and avoidance of the feared scenario can be recorded.
6.
Other medical or psychiatric causes for the fear and avoidance can be ruled out.
7.
Fear and avoidance of social situations is not a secondary problem to another primary condition.
Social Anxiety Disorder cannot be diagnosed unless all seven of these DSM-IV criteria are met.
Treatment Treatment of anxiety is often treated with medication and psychotherapy.
The disorder is also treated with hypnotherapy, self-hypnosis, and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Anxiety disorder seems to reply best to Cognitive Behavior Therapy.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy helps clients 're-frame' social situations and is a results-based, short-term method.
CBT helps patients manage social situations better by making them appear less threatening.
Reducing fear of the fear itself is another major goal of therapy.
Anxiety is usually treated with antidepressants.
SSRI and MAOI medicine are the most common types of antidepressant prescribed.
SSRI medications keep a naturally calming substance called seratonin circulating in the bloodstream for a longer period of time.
MAOI medications manipulate norephinephrine, a different calming substance.
A third, newer antidepressant works with both of these brain chemicals.
The disorder is also sometimes treated with beta-blockers and benzodiazepines.
Nevertheless another set of medicine sometimes used for the disorder treatment are the beta-blockers and benzodiazepines.
Kava is a natural herb taken as a drink that also shows promise as a treatment.