The Three Kinds Of Social Anxiety Disorder Symptoms
Mental Health No Comments »If you have a fear of social situations that makes you feel sick, or give you other strong symptoms that seem to go way beyond mere shyness in public, then the chances are pretty likely that you’re experiencing social anxiety disorder symptoms. These tend to begin as cognitive, or psychological symptoms, but they soon grow into physical symptoms as well, which result in changes in behavior that are themselves another category of symptoms of this disorder.
The symptoms tend to manifest in similar ways whether you’re dealing with specific phobias, such as severe stage fright or a more generalized anxiety about any public situation. The starting place of the social anxiety disorder symptoms is usually your thought patterns, the cognitive area, where you perceive other people as being ready to make negative judgments about you. You are so self-conscious that you might make more mistakes, reinforcing your feelings that you can’t do anything right. Soon you may become afraid of being in social situations of any type.
Your thoughts and perceptions then lead almost inevitably to social anxieties that manifest in physical ways. Indeed, these are often thought of as the main symptoms of this type of disorder. You might blush to an extreme, sweat a lot, or begin to experience heart palpitations, nausea or trembling in social situations.