Social Anxiety
Social anxiety is one of the most common anxiety disorders found in adults and teens today. Also called social phobia, the disorder can be described as a long-lasting dread of different kinds of social situations.
Although in some cases the anxiety gets better with age, that is not the case for everyone. This anxiety disorder not only affects your mental health and social life but also severely damages your quality of life.
Most people with social anxiety use various treatments and some approach mental health experts to find out how to overcome social anxiety.
While mental health treatments, like psychotherapy work for many people, they are sometimes unsuccessful for certain individuals.
How Social Anxiety Affects Your Life
Social anxiety is often confused with shyness. However, the effects of social anxiety are much more drastic, frustrating, and mentally damaging than mere shyness.
When a person suffers from a social anxiety disorder, his self-confidence, relationships, and social life are severely affected negatively.
A sufferer will find himself incapable of handling social situations and looking for ways to avoid the dreadful feeling of anxiety by avoiding social situations altogether.
Low self-esteem, a racing heartbeat in social situations, panic attacks, and low confidence are only a few of the many symptoms of a social anxiety disorder.
Hence, if you believe that you are facing any of the above problems, we suggest you get in touch with us now!
Risk Factors
Some factors increase one’s risk of developing a social anxiety disorder. Some of these factors include gender, family history, negative experiences especially during childhood, and personality.
GenderAlthough an equal number of men and women seek treatment for social anxiety disorder, this form of anxiety is more common in women than in men.
Family HistoryA review done on the environmental factors that affect social anxiety disorder, revealed that there is a connection between parental overcontrol and parental psychopathology with childhood social anxiety disorder. Marital problems in the family were also seen as a risk factor for developing this anxiety disorder.
Negative ExperiencesIn a study done to find out which childhood experience plays a major role in the development of depression and anxiety, researchers found out that sexual abuse and neglect play a significant role. The more the abuse and neglect take place, the stronger the connection observed between the negative experience and the development of the psychological disorder.
Personality FactorsCertain personality traits trigger the development of anxiety disorder. Extremely shy children as well as those who cannot tolerate uncertainties have higher chances of developing anxiety disorder later in life.
Triggering Factors
People with social anxiety disorder experience a significant amount of distress when exposed to any of the following situations:
Being the centre of attention
Being introduced to other people
Being criticized
Being observed or watched by other people when doing something
Doing certain activities in public like talking or making phone calls
Symptoms of Social Anxiety
When in certain social situations, a person with a social anxiety disorder experiences intense levels of fear and nervousness. These emotions usually come with other symptoms including tachycardia (rapid heart rate), sweating, trembling, dry mouth, blushing, and muscle twitches.
Many people with this anxiety disorder know that their fear is irrational but they feel they couldn’t do something about it.
Dealing with Social Anxiety
Social anxiety disorder can be managed with the help of cognitive and behavioural therapy and hypnotherapy.
Some of the Advantages of Dealing with Anxiety using Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is an entirely natural yet powerful treatment (in the right hands) that uses your mind and body's ability to heal itself.
No negative side effects. Generally speaking clients find the positive benefits of hypnotherapy affect their life much more broadly than they expected as they see improvements in several areas of life.
Get straight to the root causes of the anxiety, deal with and removing the driver(s) that generated the anxious feelings in the first place.
Hypnotherapy removes anxiety and panicky symptoms more rapidly using hypnosis than other talking therapies that don't use hypnosis.
Empowering you with resilience. Working with me, you will develop and master your way of dealing with anxiety and stresses in your life more positively which, if practised regularly, will allow you to be more resilient against life’s challenges in the future.
Using my advanced and unique approach, Hypnotherapy can provide you with real relief from the symptoms of anxiety and panic attacks, leaving you free to live your life in a calmer, much more balanced way.
