Detecting social phobia |
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Posted Date: 6/30/2009 |
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Category: Mental Health Disorders » Social Phobia |
Social phobia that is fear of meeting people in social situations eg: parties, canteens. This affects mainly young people and is an extreme form of individuals are recognizable not just by their appearance but by their personality which despite aging and change remains relatively constant through time. Sociopaths are usually introvert that is they are inner directed, shy and stimulus avoiding. People with a social phobia may be described as these with persistence social difficulties in the absence of a psychosis or Neurosis. Such an individual has troubles not just in relation to himself and to immediately family but also to social get together, meetings and out gangs. They have a major problem of social adjustment and also the absence of any other psychiatric disorder. He is both dependent on the people around him and unable to co-exist with him, the psychotherapy tries to master anxiety by avoiding public places. He or she may have a panic attack that is over breathing, sweating profusely and trembling. The specific person is usually a female and have dependant on her mother, daughter or husband. There is persistent low mood and the person is unable to mix with other people. The person also has low self esteem and has somewhat of an inferiority complex. The person feels weepy and miserable, low in spirits, anxious, lacking in concentration and confidence and takes no pleasure in anything. The person feels that he or she has no future that he or she is helpless and it is impossible for him to improve. Suicide thoughts are variably present although he may try to resist these by saying that I would not have the courage. There is also feeling of being worthless, inadequate, unwanted and useless. He feels intense guilt and plagues himself with thoughts of past experiences. Person may also be suffering from anorexia, with loss, sleep disturbance and occasional agitation and irritability. In a so called smiling or masked impression, he conceals severe depressive feelings behind a cheerful façade. The person despite being panicked remains in contact with reality. There is also lack of close relationships, unemployment, lack of good childhood experiences to built self esteem and learned helpless.
The phobic individual has a feeling that nothing he can do will make any difference to the situation. It may also arise from faulty learning. A child who senses his mother tension in social situations may become socially phobic himself. Repeated avoidance of social contact then exaggerates the threat associated with it since there is no opportunity from mastery through repeated exposure.
The person may also show signs of panic or hysteria with forced to attend such gatherings or meetings. The person will try his best to avoid any confrontation and from that the person may also exhibit the belle indifference that is an apparent lack of anxiety in the face of crippling disorder. They may also develop a wide variety of physical complains with no organic basis over a number of years which are usually functional that is they are manifested just to avoid social confrontation. These often involve pain breathing are commonly seen. It is thus imperative for us to keep a close watch on any family member, friend or a colleague that develops these signs so that we can help them cope with this difficult situation centering on abdomen, back and pelvis. This condition may occur in schools and other situations where young people are in close proximity. Fainting, nausea brought on by over.
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