I just started school August 15th and the social part of school can be dificult when you have social anxiety disorder. My classes are 14 kids and my biggest is like twenty something. When I’m called on in class I freeze up, I can’t handle attention being on me by more than a few people or I start shaking and get dizzy and sick. It’s very stressful if it lasts too long the nervousness makes me cry. How do I treat this?

I was diagnosed of social anxiety disorder and yes, my symptoms are matching with the standard ones. I have most of them! but.. can anyone who is going through the same, please suggest ways of managing it without medication.

I’m fifteen years old, almost sixteen. I need a job to pay for a variety of expenses that teenagers have (food, clothes, books, etc). I have barely any money. However, I’m diagnosed with mild depression and anxiety as well as pretty bad social anxiety disorder. This makes applying for a job a pretty scary experience for me, and interacting socially with customers could be difficult for me. So, is there any way I could make money without much social interaction?

I’m an 18 year old senior in high school. I’m current on 150 mg of Zoloft a day. I’ve been recieving therapy for several months, but I really haven’t improved at all. I have problems with anxiety and depression.

The Zoloft has really helped with depression, but my anxiety is still very bad (if not worse then before the medicine). I’ve had a few panic attacks since starting the medicine (one very serious one in the middle of class). I also twitch quite a bit, it could just be that I’m so cold though…

My therapist would not diagnosis me with anything because I think she said she was more of a humanist or something. However she said that in order to treat my anxiety we would probably have to get the depression under control and it is pretty much now.

So I was wondering how effective talk therapy was for helping with anxiety? I’ve always thought I had social anxiety disorder, but my therapist is reluctant to diagnosis anything.
Also what other forms of therapy may be more effective?

Description of my anxiety
Well like most highschool guys I get most anxious around girls, but for me it isn’t uncommon for me to have anxiety or panic attacks.
I usually try to flee from conversations because I never have anything to say and I’m worried for some reason. So it will usually come with faster breathing & heart beat… possibly some twitching.

When just being in public I’m told that I look very uncomfotable and even at time that I look like I’m going to pass out.

Just sitting in class I will have problems twitching (mainly hands shaking and mouth doing something similar to shivering).
yes my depression has pretty much subsidded (and only in about a months period with the first medication, everyone was telling me change it and not even to give the zoloft a chance).

I really don’t feel a need to be diagoisnised with a specific disorder, I just feel my anxiety symptoms best first social anxiety disorder for best reference as to what my problems are like and what therapy would be useful in treating it.

I’ve heard a lot about CBT for treating anxiety and I think my therapist may use some.
I don’t see where you got the impression that the therapist does not listen to me. Just because she won’t diagonis me with some medical term doesn’t really mean anything to me. It won’t change how I’m feeling or the symptoms I’m experiencing and it would not change her method.

Isn’t it better to form the therapy to the individual patient instead of just switching because of something like that?

Can anxiety be caused single handedly by chemical imbalance like social anxiety disorder or generalized anxiety disorder. And does medication cure the anxiety if its singely caused by this? Do you have to keep taking the medicine or if you take it for like a month and withdraw from it willl the chemical imbalance occur again?

I have always wanted to help people with social anxiety like me. However, social anxiety disorder could work against me.

or agoraphobia or social anxiety disorder?

if so what made your transition? also are you out there among people working and socializing vigorously?

are you an introvert?
is our prospect that bleak? maybe i just commit suicide and save my life. im tired of living like this. it’s like im living for the sake of suffering. playing a minus sum game. the more you live, the more you lose. maybe i have better chance the next time around. goodbye world.

I need to somehow incorporate how is it is also known as social phobia.
Like… Social anxiety disorder, also known as social phobia was not recognized….
or
Social anxiety disorder (aka social phobia) was not recognized…

I just don’t know what is the best way to say it. Help please!

if you were going to write a paper on childhood social anxiety disorder, what would you break the sections down into. i have symptoms and treatments so far. any other ideas would be great

We’re having to do a 30 min oral presentation on Social Anxiety disorder. We’re prepared to give the usual facts etc but we’re trying to think of ways that we can make it interesting, engaging and maybe even involve the class. We’re focusing on mainly children/teens with S.A.D…
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated…

-Always afraid of people judging her
-Hiding from society because she’s afraid she’ll trip up and everyone will dislike her
-Every time she talks to someone and sees someone she always takes the most plainest things (like a quick good bye, if that person ignores her because he didn’t hear her, etc) to be signs that that person dislikes her
-She is very careful around people to make sure people don’t dislike her and is always feeling uncomfortable when people are judging her
-Afraid to be herself because she’s afraid people will judge her for that

ETC

Are those signs and symptoms of social anxiety disorder?

Thank you

I think I may have social anxiety disorder, and because of it I have fallen into temporary periods of depression.
I tend to avoid intense social situations (parties, etc) and in the past it has interfered with things like school and getting a job. If I know I have to speak with someone I don’t know, I mull about it and am incredibly nervous about it for days.
Blahblahblah, would anti-depressants help me?

And if so what causes it? I feel like I was a very normal kid socially, then around the age of 12 I started to feel nervous all the time and I felt socially awkward. It seemed like it happened right around the same time I started liking girls too and after that I seemed to be extra nervous and shy around girls. Did puberty cause me to get social anxiety disorder? Because before I liked girls I never felt that type of social anxiety at all in my life.

My family always laughs if i get embarrassed or nervous. I have been diagnosed with Social Anxiety Disorder by a therapist and they still don’t believe in it. Inside, it’s killing me. I have no support and people just take it as a joke? Why is that?

I have social anxiety disorder, some people refer to it as social phobia. Is it the same thing? Or is there a difference? Are they wrong? Am I wrong? Thanks