How does one distinguish social anxiety from shyness?

February 5th, 2013

I think I might have social anxiety disorder, but I don’t want to go talk to a therapist and find out it’s just shyness. that would be embarrassing. Chosen Answer: I am not an expert, but I have been diagnosed with social phobia. Are you scared to go into stores because you can’t handle interacting [...]

How do you know when being shy is actually from social anxiety?

January 2nd, 2013

example. i looked it up some and it said social anxiety can be an excessive shyness along with not interpreting bodily messages correctly. such as hunger. i haven’t eaten in 55 hours and feel week but not one bit hungry Chosen Answer: I don’t know about the bodily messages idea, but I know that the [...]

How can I get treatment for social anxiety?

August 7th, 2012

I’ve displayed several symptoms of social anxiety/phobia, but I don’t have any health insurance so I can’t seek professional help. I live in California – is there a program of some sort that can help me with this, that doesn’t require insurance? Chosen Answer: View the information and weblinks for social anxiety/shyness, and self confidence, [...]

I have extremely bad case of social anxiety, besides medication and therapy are there other ways to overcome i?

April 5th, 2012

I didn’t know what it was at first I thought it was just “shyness” and that I would grow out of it well I developed social anxiety. I consider it a extreme case because it causes skip classes (college) to avoid during presentation and other “social activities”. I was actually suppose to graduate already but [...]

I have extremely bad case of social anxiety, besides medication and therapy are there other ways to overcome i?

December 18th, 2011

I didn’t know what it was at first I thought it was just “shyness” and that I would grow out of it well I developed social anxiety. I consider it a extreme case because it causes skip classes (college) to avoid during presentation and other “social activities”. I was actually suppose to graduate already but [...]