Social Anxiety Cure

Causes Of A Fear Of Public Speaking

Gary Miller — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:16:58 +0000

The causes of the fear of public speaking may be simply something experienced in a minor incident at school or something more severe, but generally public speaking in its mildest form is known as stage fright, a normal and natural fearful emotion. In fact, negative feelings are there to protect us from harm, letting us [...]

Causes Of Social Anxiety

Gary Miller — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:12:42 +0000

Social anxiety or social phobia has many varied causes, including biological, psychological and social. However, each one may be intertwined so it is hard to specify exacting ones. Though it is not yet known if social anxiety is caused by a genetic disposition or something learned through family social conditioning, it does appear that it [...]

Symptoms Of Fear Of Public Speaking

Gary Miller — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:59:15 +0000

There are some very important criteria that mental health experts use to diagnose the symptoms of fear of public speaking. Usually, most doctors do not treat clients during the diagnosis stage as people with a mental illness, but people who need help to rectify their symptoms. The first step taken towards ascertaining if a person has [...]

What Are Anxiety Attacks?

Gary Miller — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:19:26 +0000

An anxiety attack is a time period whereby a person is suddenly, sometimes without warning, delitated by an extreme feeling of distress or fear. For the sufferer it can be a very terrifying experience, even though they are totally unaware that their symptoms are part of the body’s natural mechanism called ‘fight-or-flight’. The most usual [...]

Common Types Of Social Phobia

Gary Miller — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:54:53 +0000

There are three common types of social phobia experienced by patients. These include generalized social phobia and specific social phobia. Generalized social phobia is the most prevalent social phobia type. If you are diagnosed with this type you will find that you fear becoming the focal point of other people’s attention, anywhere you have the need [...]

What Is A Fear Of Public Speaking?

Gary Miller — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:04:50 +0000

Fear of public speaking (glossophobia) is one type of mental health disorder called social phobia that is difficult to understand because it is amongst the last anxiety conditions discovered by doctors. In fact, about 75% of people suffer from this condition in its mildest non-clinical form or stage fright, but in more extreme forms it [...]

Medications For Social Phobia

Gary Miller — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:42:06 +0000

There are times when treatments for social phobia, such as cognitive behavioral therapies and other psychological methods, do not work. In this situation a patient’s doctor may recommend medication to help alleviate social phobia symptoms. Most medications are given singularly whereby a patient uses one drug at a time until their symptoms are under control. However, [...]

A Fear Of Embarrassment

Gary Miller — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:27:50 +0000

There are people who suffer from a fear of embarrassment. This fear can develop into an intense and unwarranted terror or agoraphobia. Agoraphobia was named after a Greek market and it literally translates to mean a fear of being exposed to a situation or situation publicly where embarrassment can occur. With some [...]

Symptoms Of Anxiety Attacks

Gary Miller — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:15:44 +0000

Every time we enter a stressful situation we have at some point bordered on having an anxiety attack, but may not have even realized it. In fact it is a natural instinctive response to stressful circumstances – the ‘fight or flight’ instinct. Some people can actually benefit from this, which results in better performance or [...]

Common Types Of Anxiety Attacks

Gary Miller — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:23:00 +0000

There are different types of anxiety attacks; each one is attributed to a specific anxiety disorder. These include such disorders as generalized anxiety disorder or GAD, obsessive compulsive disorder or OCD, panic disorder/panic attacks, phobias, separation anxiety and social phobia/anxiety. Anxiety attacks triggered off when suffering from GAD (generalized anxiety disorder) can be due to constant [...]