Social anxiety disorder symptoms may not always be the most apparent thing to those of us that may be suffering from it.
It may also be called social phobia.
Basically when we find ourselves present in socially oriented situations, they tend to produce massive amounts of anxiety and may lead to anxiety or panic attacks.
Symptoms include sweating, extremely nervous, racing heart beat, shallow breaths and others.
There are a few signs that are helpful to know about.
Being consciously aware of these signs could help us overcome them eventually and also partially reduce some of the stress received.
Here are three of the signs to know about.
The first one may be one of the obvious ones, but it has to do with directly avoiding any type of social events.
Family or Friends (usually very few if any that we may have) may invite us to an event of some sort.
When they do, we tend to make up any sort of excuse under the sun to avoid going.
Whether true or not, we just plain out try to avoid it.
Secondly, if we do end up at some sort of event we isolate ourselves.
Out of fear of having any sort of attention drawn to us, we locate an area with the least amount of people, or none if possible! The anxiety starts creeping in slowly and hopes that no one will spot us or talk to us are not uncommon.
The third thing on this list is cutting anything related to a conversation as soon as possible and escaping.
Although we may try to isolate ourselves the best we can, there may be a person or two that may wander by and talk to us.
The moment they start talking to us, our mind begins to race with any thoughts on an exit for the conversation.
We may come up with an excuse, or something we need to do and change areas.
This may sometimes go across to the other person as rude or abrupt at times.
If you notice these signs occurring try to take small steps and socialize even a tiny bit more than you used to.