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Social anxiety, or social phobia, is a condition that doesn't necessarily have a great deal of notoriety, bit it's a particularly painful and difficult dysfunction to cope with. Those people who are aware of social anxiety, perhaps in particular those who suffer with it, are likely to define social anxiety in terms of being anxious in and or fearful of social interaction. In truth however, social anxiety can actually be defined as one of three conditions.
The most prevalent form of social anxiety is classified as generalized social anxiety. Generalized social anxiety is a form of social fear or social apprehension that isn't related to any specific social situation. The person with generalized social anxiety feels apprehension in the face of any circumstance where they have the potential to be noticed by others. This is an especially broad possibility: the likelihood of being noticed in a social situation would seem to be a constant. Given this then it's easy to see why someone with generalized anxiety tends to move through life in perpetual agitation and fear.
A second form of social anxiety is situation specific social anxiety. Situation specific social anxiety is not terribly uncommon in certain forms. Fear of public speaking for example is a form of situation specific social anxiety that many people share. There are some forms of situation specific social anxiety though that can be quite disruptive in the course of a person's everyday life. Some forms of situation specific social anxiety include anxiety and fear over using a public restroom, writing in public, and eating in public. These are not uncommon activities to undertake, yet some people will go to great lengths to avoid them, sometimes even changing how they live their lives in the process.
The final social anxiety form is often referred to as avoidance disorder. This is the most extreme form of social anxiety, and involves literally avoiding most social situations in order to avoid the apprehension and fear social situations elicit. Someone with avoidance disorder can hide themselves away, avoiding any form of social contact except with things that are completely familiar. While this sort of behavior may come across and peculiar and even amusing to some observers, the person with avoidance disorder tends to suffer greatly because, like most people, they covet interpersonal connection but can't move past their fear to achieve it. The result is often a very painful existence.
While social anxiety, in all of its forms, tends to be painful and difficult the good news is that social anxiety is an entirely treatable disorder. It's not necessarily easy to overcome social anxiety, but it can absolutely be accomplished. And once social anxiety is overcome, an entire new world opens up for the person whose life was once controlled by fear and apprehension.
Zinn Jeremiah is an online author. Find help for anxiety by visiting social anxiety treatment or anxiety help.
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