Social Anxiety Disorder: Disordering Our Lives

Being anxious especially in a meeting or an oral report is indeed normal. It has been a common feeling by us when we are not yet acquainted of the environment and the scenarios that we have. However, there are some instances wherein people cannot do away with the anxiousness that they felt. Such feeling is commonly known as social phobia or the social anxiety disorder. Social phobia is said to be among the top three psychological disorders that we can get aside from the leading depression and even the substance abuse.

For those people having social anxiety disorder, they are known to have this feeling or fear of doing things and would just end up being criticized and discriminated by other people. With this, they are known to portray a person who is being unintelligent or inarticulate that would lead to a wrong connotation that they are weak.

There are a lot of scenarios and instances wherein people with social anxiety disorder is becoming apparent. If we find a person who seems to be very self-conscious in just an act of drinking or eating in front of you, then surely that person has a social phobia syndrome. These are acts that they portray since it seems for them that they are always being watched by other people on what they are doing. In such assumptions, they trembling a lot as if they are very much nervous in the simple act that they are doing.

Another scenario wherein we can catch a person with social anxiety disorder would be in dating. Since dating would entail a face-to-face and one-on-one communication between two persons, a person with social phobia syndrome will indeed find it hard to handle the given scenario. With that, they always fail in fostering relationship with other people and especially in romantic relationships with the opposite sex.

Talking about the symptoms that we can get out of social anxiety disorder syndrome would be seen in the physical aspects of a person. These people are known to experience shaky hands, trembling voice, profuse sweating, and brisk heart rate. Such symptoms are the very same reasons why there is the decrease of self-esteem of a certain person. Because of social phobia syndrome, many people are resorting to things that are very extreme. For those teens with social phobia syndrome are likely to drop out in the studies. This is their only way so that they can be able to do away with the humiliation that they can get out from the people who might judge them in the future. In short, they resort in excluding themselves in life’s mainstream.

Thus, it is very important for us to understand those people who have social phobia syndrome. It has shown that what they are undergoing is something that we should all think about. They are just victims of this disorder and we should also do our part in making them feel they are still accepted in the society that they would like to turn away from.