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How do anxiety disorders and personality disorders differ from an adjustment disorder?

Sunday, July 11th, 2010 at 4:47 am

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In an anxiety disorder there can be an identifiable stressor – ex. social anxiety and social situations
Borderline personality – a stressor can be an abusive relationship. How do these things differ?

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what is they best way to help a child with social anxiety?

Thursday, July 8th, 2010 at 5:00 pm

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"how can we encourage more appropriate social behaviors? what activities are effective in helping a child develop positive social skills? What social skills are most important for a child to have?"

- parents, doctors, and every adult are far away from ever understanding something they never had to deal with.
someone who suffers from mild social anxiety will tell you that being shy and having this disorder are very different. When your "child" thinks about "social skills" it isnt the same as a normal outlook. i for one would rather be comfortable walking through a walmart and comfortable sitting down in a room full of ppl before i start thinking about talking to ppl.
"put the child in more social scenes, make him/her interact."
- its better to let your child know that it isnt their responsibility to keep a conversation going. because they always feel like what they are about to say is stupid and irrelevant. When ppl are shy they are just being their selves.
and that is the root, children with social anxiety can never be themselves.

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Does it sound like Social Anxiety Disorder?

Thursday, July 1st, 2010 at 2:36 pm

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I have some symptoms of Social Anxiety. The most obvious one being, I get nervous in social situations. I am very concerned with what people think of me and am obsessed with my own appearance. I have been depressed since I was a small child so maybe it stemmed from that.

I get nervous in stores and restaurants, right before it’s my turn to order something. When I’m really nervous, I tend to stutter. It just makes me so much more anxious, especially when I’m doing presentations at school. Sometimes I don’t turn in assignments or papers because I don’t want to burden my teachers with them. If I say something wrong at school, I’ll get very upset on the inside (I don’t think you can tell all that much), even if I just mispronounce something and people laugh, I’ll go home for the day and just lay in bed until the next school day. I never contribute to any conversations in class, even in English (I live in a country where they’re learning English as a second language, English is my first and I don’t speak the language here all that well). I’m so terrified of saying something stupid and everyone hating me and judging me. I also speak the language with a fake European accent because I don’t want to stand out.

I also don’t sleep sometimes because I feel like I have to look perfect for school. I spend an hour and a half in the shower sometimes because I am obsessed with being clean and I don’t want people to think I smell and to reject me because of that. I’ll spend over an hour, sometimes an hour and a half, on my hair. I hate people looking at me because I feel like they’re judging me and talking about how ugly I am. This upsets me greatly. I don’t leave my house if I know people are there and I don’t initiate things with people. I have no friends, it’s not that I don’t want them but it’s just that I don’t open up to people.

I also have kind of low self-esteem which may contribute to it but I am just very sensitive to everything everyone says. Like someone once mocked this kid’s laugh at school when I was in the 6th grade. My laugh sounded nothing like that but I felt like I didn’t want to become a target so I just don’t laugh anymore. I smile but I don’t laugh. I feel like I don’t know how to.

Does this sound like social anxiety or something else entirely? I’m 17, sorry if I sounded a bit immature and sorry about the length of this post.

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Social Anxiety Disorder?

Thursday, June 24th, 2010 at 5:11 pm

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I know I have some serious symptoms such as blushing, shaking voice, sweating, etc. But I want to know what I can do to reduce or get rid of social anxiety forever.

The odd thing is I used to be a really outgoing child, then after I don’t know what I became quiet and get nervous in almost any social situation where I don’t feel comfortable. Such as going to a party where I don’t know who’ll be there, meeting new people, speaking up in class or large groups, presenting things to my class or basically doing anything where I have to do something in front of people I don’t know.

Also just wondering, do social anxiety and adhd tie in together?
But the odd thing is usually caffeine helps. Not with the physical symptoms but since I can think faster and on my feet I feel like I won’t have a problem coming up with saying the right thing.

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Causes of Social Anxiety Disorder

Saturday, May 15th, 2010 at 5:32 am

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moderncavedweller.com Some people are able to mask their discomfort and go about their lives mildly uncomfortable in social situations, while others remain perpetually in a living hell. Those whose condition affects them to the degree that their lives are severely diminished are in need of treatment. Whats the cause of this phobic reaction to personal interaction? The causes may be either or both biological or learned. Its possible that the initial cause of social anxiety disorder is an underlying chemical imbalance affecting the neurotransmitter, serotonin. Some theorize that this imbalance restricts the way messages travel between nerve cells. This imbalance can alter the way people react during stressful situations. Research is still in its infancy. Conditioning as a result of childhood humiliation, psychological abuse, sheltering, nervous parents, lack of praise, an overabundance of criticism, trauma can have psychological ramifications resulting in social anxiety disorder. But the cause is not as important as the cure. To date, there is no complete cure, however there is treatment which can alleviate most of the symptoms and enable a person with this disorder to function happily and productively. If you know of someone that you believe suffers from this crippling disorder, understand and accept them, love them and get them into treatment. The successful completion of the treatment program can be like a rebirth for those who suffer from social anxiety disorder.

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Sunday, April 18th, 2010 at 6:56 am

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