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    Social Phobia: Analysis and Cure
    Social Phobia: Analysis and Cure
    Social Phobia: Analysis and Cure
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    Social Phobia: Analysis and Cure

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    Usually, the situations most feared by those suffering from social phobia are those that involve the need to do something before other people, such as exposing a relationship or just sign up, call or eat can sometimes create anxiety just walk into a room where there are people already seated, or talk with your friend. People who suffer from social phobia are afraid of appearing anxious and show the "signs", i.e. fear of becoming red-faced, trembling, stuttering, sweating, having palpitations, or to remain silent, unable to speak the other, without the joke "ready". Finally, it often happens that those who suffer, when there is a feared situation, recognize their fear as unreasonable and tend, therefore, to accuse and self-reproach for not being able to do things that everyone does. Social phobia, if untreated, tends to remain stable and chronic, and often can lead to other disorders such as depression. This disorder seems typically begin in adolescence or early adulthood. Usually there are two types of social phobia: a simple, when the person concerned or only a few types of situations (for example, is unable to speak in public, but has problems in other social situations such as attending a party or talk with a stranger ); general, when that person is afraid almost all social situations. In more severe and pervasive, we tend to prefer the diagnosis of Avoidant Personality Disorder.
    Another characteristic of this disorder is marked anxiety before the feared situations and that is called anticipatory anxiety. Thus, even before addressing a social situation (for example to go to a party or attend a business meeting), people begin to worry about that event. A vicious cycle can take place: the anticipatory anxiety causes a cognitive attitude fearful and anxious symptoms related to feared situations, which can lead to a really poor performance, or perceived as such in the feared situations, which, in turn, determines embarrassment and increased anticipatory anxiety to feared situations, thus establishing a vicious cycle that is self-feeding. As often happens in phobic disorders, people who experience this disorder recognize, when they are away from the feared situations, that their fears just absolutely unreasonable, excessive and silly, bringing to guilt conducted to further their avoidant.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherALVIS International Editions
    Release dateJul 2, 2012
    ISBN9781476137995
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    Social Phobia - Massimo Polimeno

    Social Phobia

    Analysis and Cure

    Massimo Polimeno

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    INDEX

    Introduction

    General Features

    The Causes of the Disorder

    The Object of Social Phobia

    Symptoms of Phobia

    Epidemiology

    Diagnostic Criteria

    Differential Diagnosis

    The Cognitive Model

    The Model Emoto-Cognitive

    Psychotherapy

    Drug Therapy

    Bibliography

    INTRODUCTION

    Social phobia is a disorder very common among the population. According to some studies, it appears that women suffer more than men. The main feature of social phobia is the fear of acting in front of others, in an embarrassing or humiliating, and receiving negative reviews. This fear can lead the sufferer to avoid most social situations for fear of behaving in a wrong and to be misjudged. Usually, the situations most feared by those suffering from social phobia are those that involve the need to do something before other people, such as exposing a relationship or just sign up, call or eat can sometimes create anxiety just walk into a room where there are people already seated, or talk with your friend. People who suffer from social phobia are afraid of appearing anxious and show the signs, i.e. fear of becoming red-faced, trembling, stuttering, sweating, having palpitations, or to remain silent, unable to speak the other, without the joke ready. Finally, it often happens that those who suffer, when there is a feared situation, recognize their fear as unreasonable and tend, therefore, to accuse and self-reproach for not being able to do things that everyone does. Social phobia, if untreated, tends to remain stable and chronic, and often can lead to other disorders such as depression. This disorder seems typically begin in adolescence or early adulthood. Usually there are two types of social phobia: a simple, when the person concerned or only a few types of situations (for example, is unable to speak in public, but has problems in other social situations such as attending a party or talk with a stranger ); general, when that person is afraid almost all social situations. In more severe and pervasive, we tend to prefer the diagnosis of Avoidant Personality Disorder.

    Another characteristic of this disorder is marked anxiety before the feared situations and that is called anticipatory anxiety. Thus, even before addressing a social situation (for example to go to a party or attend a business meeting), people begin to worry about that event. A vicious cycle can take place: the anticipatory anxiety causes a cognitive attitude fearful and anxious symptoms related to feared situations, which can lead to a really poor performance, or perceived as such in the feared situations, which, in turn, determines embarrassment and increased anticipatory anxiety to feared situations, thus establishing a vicious cycle that is self-feeding. As often happens in phobic disorders, people who experience this disorder recognize, when they are away from the feared situations, that their fears just absolutely unreasonable, excessive and silly, bringing to guilt conducted to further their avoidant.

    GENERAL FEATURES

    The main feature of social phobia is given by the fear of being in social situations or being watched while you are doing something, such as public speaking or, more simply, a person talking, writing, eating or phone. The feared social situations, individuals with social phobia are concerned about appearing awkward and, especially, are fearful that others judge them anxious, weak, crazy, or stupid. They can, therefore, fear of public speaking for the concerns of a sudden forget what they have to say, or fear that others notice the trembling of hands or voice, or they can try extreme anxiety when conversing with others for fear of appearing unclear. The symptoms of social phobia may lead the subject to avoid eating, drinking or writing in public, for fear of being embarrassed by the fact that others can see his hands tremble. Another characteristic of this disorder is marked anxiety before the feared situations and that is called anticipatory anxiety. As with other anxiety disorders, cognitive behavioral psychotherapy has generally proved very effective in treating social phobia. The cognitive behavioral psychotherapy focuses on the here and now, the direct treatment of the symptom, and a tip from side to modify dysfunctional thoughts, the other to give the person best skills and ability to face the feared situations. Dysfunctional or irrational beliefs are thoughts that people make about events, which are involved in and arising, in turn, be rigid and not very adaptive cognitive schemas, such as the belief that showing anxiety is a sign of weakness or the conviction to be carefully observed by others. These thoughts come in, so to speak, as a function only when a person is faced with a social situation, that must be exposed to possible scrutiny by others, setting off the anxiety and the consequent feeling of losing control. Episodes of fear are normal in all of us, all, in fact, in some situations, we have experienced. We find descriptions of the phenomenon dating back to every time and every culture: it therefore seems to be an element that always accompanies and characterizes the human being. Shyness has been described by scholars in many different ways and is not yet possible to give a single definition: some have focused on its psychological aspects, internal to the individual, meaning that shyness as a subjective experience of anxiety and

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