Social Phobia

Social Phobia

Social phobia, also called social anxiety disorder, is a disorder characterized by overwhelming anxiety and excessive self-consciousness in everyday social situations. People with social phobia have a persistent, intense, and chronic fear of being watched and judged by others and of being embarrassed or humiliated by their own actions. Their fear may be so severe that it interferes with work or school - and other ordinary activities. Social phobia sufferers often worry for days or weeks in advance of a dreaded situation. 

Social Phobia can be limited to only one type of situation - such as a fear of speaking in formal or informal situations, or eating or drinking in front of others - or, in its most severe form, may be so broad that a person experiences symptoms almost anytime they are around other people.

Physical symptoms often accompany Social Phobia include blushing, profuse sweating, trembling, and other symptoms of anxiety, including difficulty talking and nausea or other stomach discomfort. These visible symptoms heighten the fear of disapproval and the symptoms themselves can become an additional focus of fear. Fear of symptoms can create a vicious cycle: as people with Social Phobia worry about experiencing the symptoms, the greater their chances of developing the symptoms.

How common is Social Phobia

• About 3.7% of the U.S. population ages 18 to 54 - approximately 5.3 million Americans - has Social Phobia in any given year
• Social Phobia occurs in women twice as often as in men, although a higher proportion of men seeks help for this disorder
• The disorder typically begins in childhood or early adolescence and rarely develops after age 25

What causes Social Phobia?

A small structure in the brain called the amygdala is responsible for the symptoms of Social Phobia. The amygdala is the central site in the brain that controls fear responses and produces the symptoms of anxiety disorders such as social phobia.

Investigation shows the environment's influence on the development of social phobia. People with Social Phobia may acquire their fear from observing the behavior and consequences of others, a process called observational learning or social modeling.

What treatments are available for Social Phobia?

To eliminate social phobia, the cause of the phobia must be addressed directly. The Amygdala does not respond to medication or psychotherapy, a more direct approach is required. The Linden Method addresses the root cause of social phobia and is simple to implement, permanent and guaranteed!

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Depression dan Anxiety

Historically, anxiety and depression have been strongly linked. But are they related? That depends on the answer to one question!

The question is: What came first, the anxiety or the depression? I don't mean the diagnosis by a doctor, but the actual anxiety or depression symptoms.

If your answer is that depression came before the anxiety, then chances are that you are suffering from true clinical depression. If you answer that your anxiety came before the depression, chances are you have anxiety-related depression and that's a completely different and very treatable condition. Anxiety causes mood changes which mimic true depression!

There is a big difference between anxiety caused by depression and depression caused by anxiety. Clinical depression is a chemical mood disorder that requires drug treatments. Stress, phobias and anxiety can cause 'depression like' symptoms but rarely true clinical depression.

If you have depression and anxiety is a symptom of that depression, we can help you to undermine that anxiety, in turn allowing you to tackle the issues which caused you to experience depression in the first place.

If you have anxiety which has created depression and changed your mood we can show you the solution by removing your unwanted anxiety completely, allowing the depression to lift.

Most of our anxiety sufferers (about 80%) experience feelings of depression, of course they feel depressed, anxiety is miserable, I KNOW, I have been there!

Anxiety, stress and phobias can cause massive shifts in a sufferer's mood but we can untangle that knot and return the sufferer to a full and active life.

What you must understand, however, is that in tens of thousands of sufferers of anxiety and depression that we have treated at The Linden Center using The Linden Method, every single one who complies, becomes completely anxiety and depression free! EVERY ONE! Plus, it's fast and permanent!

Stress - Do you suffer from stress?

Stress - Do you suffer from stress? Do you know what causes it?

Stress- Definition

'Mental or physical tension that results from physical, emotional, or chemical causes.'

Stress is the condition that results from life and/or work pressures. It's all too easy for some people to say that they suffer from stress but what most actually mean is that they feel inappropriate amounts of pressure at certain times. Stress can come on slowly or suddenly and presents usually as a combination of symptoms.

Symptoms of Stress

Stress normally manifests itself as a range of quite distinct symptoms such as insomnia, headaches or migraine, muscle aches, mood swings, digestive problems, anxiety, morbid thoughts, panic attacks or depressive thoughts for example.

It is common for stress sufferers to experience panic attacks, anxiety and phobias. Having developed these conditions, the stress sufferer can experience a wide range of both physical and psychological thoughts and sensations, often misdiagnosed by medical practitioners in isolation.

Many stress sufferers experience a small group of symptoms which can be misdiagnosed by doctors who, regrettably, do not take a look at the larger picture surrounding the development of the stress symptoms by the sufferer. In isolation, these stress symptoms are often mistreated by practitioners.

Addressed quickly, stress symptoms, anxiety and panic attacks can be eradicated quickly and permanently given the correct treatment methodology.

Types of Stress

Stress can be caused by a wide range of stressors or catalysts. Stress often occurs during periods of work pressure, after bereavement, divorce, moving house or other stress inducing life situations.

Some stressors are easier to eliminate than others. Work practice stress can be eliminated by adjusting your work practice but life issues such as abuse, divorce or other personal problems can give rise to situations which are not so simple to overcome.

Stress and Anxiety

The Link between stress and anxiety is strong; in fact the majority of stress sufferers who visit their doctor are diagnosed with anxiety. Stress and anxiety account for more days off work than any other condition.

Causes of Stress

Stress is caused by perception, not fact. If you perceive your task at hand or situation as threatening or overwhelming, your reaction to it will also be negative.

If the stressful situation is perceived as a welcome challenge or something for which you are prepared, the pressure of the task at hand will not manifest itself negatively and you will not develop any of the symptoms of stress. This explains why some people thrive on stress and others suffer at its mercy.

Stress Treatment / Cures

Drugs / Medication

There are no medicinal cures for stress. Stress, as mentioned earlier, is caused by an inappropriate perception of the task at hand; no drug exists which can alleviate the problem. Once stress conditions are formed, some doctors will try to remove them using drugs, but this is untargeted and inappropriate treatment.

Stress conditions can only be successfully treated using behavioral techniques, administered by professional, qualified and experienced support specialists.

 

Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy can assist in undermining stress related conditions, but is sporadic, inaccessible and takes a lot of valuable time to administer. Psychotherapy is used mostly to identify and discuss the source of mental illnesses. Stress is not a mental illness.

 

Alternative Therapies

Alternative therapies can offer stress sufferers some respite during their condition, but are far from curative. Coupled with other mechanisms, alternative therapies can be very useful, especially when used alongside massage, yoga or meditation for example.

 

Phobias – what are they?

Phobias can be divided into two distinct types:

Specific Phobia

Specific phobias are usually to things such as dentists and doctors, heights, flying, dogs or snakes for example. Whilst specific phobias can cause anxiety and even panic to happen on exposure to them, they are not caused by generalized anxiety or an underlying anxiety disorder.

Social Phobia

Social Phobia is anxiety caused by exposure to social situations and interaction with other people. Includes fear of public speaking or performance, eating in public, writing in front of someone and other social interaction.

Social phobia sufferers experience an overwhelming and frightening fear of being scrutinized or of being embarrassed or humiliated. This can lead to avoiding situations where this could happen, which means missing out on many pleasurable aspects of life.

Agoraphobia – what is it and how can YOU overcome it?

Agoraphobia is officially defined as the fear of the marketplace and although not strictly a phobia, rather a symptom of anxiety, it can be categorized as such because of the specific reaction it causes. Agoraphobia often affects sufferers in far more diverse places than just crowded or open places. Agoraphobia is taken to mean a reaction to a geographic location – this could be far from home, where escape or retreat is restricted (e.g. theatre, cinema, train) or anywhere when you are alone and feel vulnerable.

Agoraphobia develops as a coping device in high anxiety. Sufferers develop symptoms and thoughts of which they become scared, they start to depend on a person or place of safety and this place becomes their sanctuary, where they feel calm or experience a reduction of their anxiety symptoms.

Agoraphobia, like all other phobias can be eliminated using a structured program. Agoraphobia, is, in fact, the easiest phobia to cure as its existence is directly linked to your anxiety disorder – without the underlying anxiety, agoraphobia simply can’t exist.

Social Phobia (social anxiety) – what is it?

Social phobia (social anxiety) is an anxiety reaction to any situation which means that you must interact with other people. Social phobia (social anxiety) can cause mild anxiety to extreme panic attacks and the situation which creates anxiety could be interaction with just one or perhaps a crowd of people. Every social phobia (social anxiety) sufferer is different.

Some social phobia (social anxiety) can happen when you go on dates, talk to a person in authority or just interact with anyone with whom you are not fully comfortable as well as causing problems in larger groups or when confronted with having to perform or speak in public.

Many social phobics experience problems when they have to eat or write in front of another person also.

Social phobia (social anxiety) is a symptom of an anxiety disorder. Because the sufferer’s general anxiety levels are artificially raised all of the time, just a slight increase can cause an anxiety reaction and even panic.

The good news is that social phobia (social anxiety), can be eliminated by addressing the underlying anxiety that causes it.

Phobia Elimination – is it possible?

Phobias are symptoms of an anxiety disorder and NOT stand-alone disorders. Anxiety disorders occur when the 'anxiety switch', the Amygdala, in the brain, becomes stuck in the ON position as a result of repeated anxiety provoking situations or, less commonly, a one-off trauma which has caused the sufferer to experience high anxiety.

The Amygdala is the organ in the brain that regulates and stores the anxiety response and it is this which MUST be addressed in order to return the anxious response back down to normal in order to eliminate your agoraphobia… in fact any phobia, completely.

There is an effective way of overcoming and conquering phobias permanently.

With anxiety, it is important to gain control of this response as soon as you feel it developing. The Linden Method will show you how you can take control simply and effectively, no matter how long you have suffered.

Our clients who suffer from agoraphobia and social phobia find that by reducing and eliminating the anxiety which causes and drives their phobias, they can become anxiety free, more confident and more effective in their lives.

Our Linden Method Specialists are trained to help, support and advise you at every step of your journey and will always be there to do so whenever you need them.