SOCIAL anxiety or social phobia is a feeling of worry, fear or discomfort centered on how we deal and interact with other people. It involves a worry with being looked down upon, evaluated, or judged negatively by other people. While social anxiety can often happen during the social exchange itself, it may also occur in anticipation of a social event or occasion, or afterward when we check on how we performed in a given situation.
Here are some links that will give you an idea on how the experts deal with social anxiety:
Social Anxiety Support
To provide support for those who suffer from social anxiety disorder (social phobia). Social Anxiety Support (SAS) went online in mid-2000. The website has changed significantly over the years and also has changed ownership twice. Despite these changes, the mission of the site has stayed the same. Much credit and many thanks go to the two previous owners who both worked to make SAS a welcoming and supportive community for people with social anxiety disorder (social phobia). SAS is currently owned and operated by Neowave Media, a Washington State LLC. Neowave Media is a small business that owns and operates a collection of websites.
About Mayo Clinic
Our mission is to empower people to manage their health. We accomplish this by providing useful and up-to-date information and tools that reflect the expertise and standard of excellence of Mayo Clinic. A team of Web professionals and medical experts working side by side produces this site. Through this unique collaboration, we give you access to the experience and knowledge of the more than 3,700 physicians, scientists and researchers of Mayo Clinic. This site is owned by Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, which is located at: 200 First St. S.W. Rochester, MN 55905
SAA Mission Statement
The Social Anxiety Association (SAA), a non-profit organization, was officially organized in 1997 to meet the growing needs of people throughout the world who have social phobia/social anxiety. Social anxiety disorder is a relatively new classification in the DSM, the psychiatric diagnostic and statistical manual of the American Psychiatric Association, appearing for the first time in the early 1980's, and then more specifically defined in the 1987 version. Social anxiety is still nowhere near a "household" word --and it is a "problem area" not taught in many graduate schools of psychology. Thus, not only is the public ignorant of this major anxiety disorder, the vast majority of professional therapists are not aware of it either.
Anxiety social net -The first anxiety social network
Anxiety Social Net is a meeting place for persons afflicted with anxiety disorders, as well as those who have managed to overcome them. If you have helplessly watched a family member grapple anxiety disorders, you are encouraged to join too. As an ongoing anxiety sufferer, you may find explanations to some of the sensations you often feel, but cannot easily put into words. You may even get answers to questions you haven’t been able to frame, because you don’t understand your symptoms well enough. For past sufferers who emerged victorious, in being able to control their symptoms instead of allowing their symptoms to control them, you know exactly how it feels.
There are hundreds of other sites on the web where you can learn more about social anxiety and the new methods being used by the experts to tackle this problem.
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