Is social phobia is a disease

is social phobia is a disease?

Keep in mind that social phobia is a diagnostic entity, is, a label that professionals include behaviors that are characterized by avoidance of social situations. The life and humanity is more complex. For example, with social phobia appears very often depression, panic attacks often panic, and sometimes obsessive compulsive disorder. This complexity is because of what we are talking about is behavior, not disease.

Psychologists, in our clinical practice diagnose, but we have very clear differences in what we do with the diagnosis of typical disease. For example, tuberculosis is diagnosed, the first based on certain symptoms, cough with blood, some fever, caverns in the lungs, etc.. which are due to an external cause, the presence of the bacillus of Koch. In social phobia there is no external agent causing the pollution. When a doctor diagnoses disease due to a malfunction of an organ, is also based on external symptoms are manifestations of problems in that body. For example, if we were wrong in our hearts what we got tired we would notice the slightest effort, we get purple, etc.. etc. In the case of social phobia is not so. Those who read the diagnosis and think that they identify their self-esteem fails them, or which has unbalanced neurotransmitters. But self-esteem is not an entity with independent existence of our behavior, and neurotransmitters in the service of our behavior and become unbalanced because of how we behave.

What psychologists know is that in the anxiety disorders, are our own behavior, our avoidances, which maintain the problem, regardless of their origin.

We must differentiate between what we call social phobia and what we call shyness. The difference from the clinical standpoint is the impact on the life of the person, so we speak of social phobia when personal or work life is seriously affected. But the fundamental difference is that the shy comes to situations that are uncomfortable, too scared, but come. And when he does consistently, finally applied the universal law of habituation and situations make it more bearable. While we say we have social phobia often avoid such situations in a systematic or cares if you go over to try to be calm and control your anxiety to attend, participate or do you have to do in that situation.

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