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 HOW IS IT EVIDENT?
The social phobia is characterized by the presence of anxiety clinically significant like answer to certain social situations or performances in public of the proper individual, what usually gives place to avoid them. The individual feels a deep fear to which a social situation turns out to be awkward or of offending, for it it always produces an answer of described anxiety for those who endure it like excessive and irrational. The individual, or he avoids these situations radically, or assumes them with supreme terror.
The social phobia will be diagnosed only in the cases in which the behavior of avoidance or the feeling of fear interferes in the daily routine of the individual, his labor relations and his social life.
In case of the children, the social phobia takes forms of cries, stuttering, palsy, hugs or clutching to nearby relatives and abstention of supporting relations with the others up to the point of coming to the silence.
HOW ARE THESE SUBJECTS?
There are hypercapable subjects to the criticism, to the negative evaluation on the part of the others and to the rejection. They have difficulty for autoafirmarse, low self-esteem and feelings of inferiority. They are afraid of the indirect evaluations as the examinations. They show anxiety signs like the cold hands, quakes, flush, unsteady voice... There usually obtain villains resulted in the school due to the fear in the examinations and the avoidance of taking part. They are accustomed to having a scarce social support and have less probabilities of marrying. They can remain all his life with his parents never going so far as not to have a friend. They can have suicidal ideas.
CAUSES
It is possible that it avenges with us like a character, but it is usually a consequence of disorders of the frame of mind, consumption of drugs or nervous bulimias.
PREDOMINANCE
The social phobia is more frequent in women, although also it affects men. His population incidence ranges between 3 and 13 %. The relatives of the first grade of individuals with this phobia seem to have more probabilities of suffering the disorder.
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