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Treatment
Social phobia is like any other
disease treatment, the person who suffers in many cases can recover and return
to a full and normal life, the goal of treatment is to help the person to
function effectively and its success depends on the severity of the phobia.
Normally the treatment is carried out
with specific medication therapy necessarily associated with type gradual.Aproximadamente
80 percent of people with social phobia find relief from their symptoms when
they are undergoing treatment.
Psychological treatment
First of all we need to contact a
psychologist to help us follow a personalized treatment. In any case, the
psychological treatment does not always give good results by itself, as it
sometimes takes too long this disorder rooted in the patient's life, to the
point of thinking it is part of their personality and not simply a behavior
unconscious patterns learned based on erroneous, as it actually is.
The therapy has proven more effective
in the specific treatment of social phobia is called cognitive behavior. The
cognitive part is to train the patient to detect his thoughts and replace or
modify those that are not useful for a better quality of life. The behavior is
controlled exposure to situations that cause anxiety. This gives you the
anxiety caused by the different situations, gradually diminishes until a
manageable level for the patient. The psychologist teaches patients techniques
based on a social skills so he can control anxiety without ever physiological
symptoms appear, once this is achieved through a process of months of treatment,
the patient may face situations than before believed they could not afford.
The combination of both therapies
allows the person suffering these disorders learn and change their way of
thinking, which leads to a change in behavior, thus achieving a significant
improvement in quality of life.
Drug treatment
There are now many drugs Family
anxiolytics that have been proven effective in the treatment of social phobia, although
many of them have a major drawback that side effects they have. Drug treatments
presented here should be administered under medical supervision and never on
its own initiative.
Briefly analyzed, the most widely used:
Prozac: This medication is used to
treat severe depression and social phobia or. It was originally designed to
treat depression, but then saw that altered some personality traits, and
depressive attitudes, aggressiveness, irritability, and like these also acted
shyness.
Hypericum: It's kind of prozac but
natural and has fewer side effects than Prozac. This is an extract from a plant,
the boiling of John. As is indicated prozac depressive disorders, and phobias. As
antidepressant action manifests at least two weeks after starting treatment.
Seroxat: It is used to combat
depression and pathological shyness or social phobia. Is marketed worldwide to
treat depression, but also has been found to be effective for anxiety and
social phobias.
Other drugs for treating social
phobias are: Trankimazin, Rivotril, Lexatin, Tenormin, etc..
Treatment group
Self-help groups are a great resource
to consider for those affected by social phobia, but perhaps can be difficult
to arrange for the same character of social phobia, which if they are
recognized is a great value in the exchange of information, to take them a
chance to talk with others who are going through similar situations and lose
the embarrassment of saying publicly. During the meetings of these groups are
used the techniques and cognitive behavioral strategies, usually conducted by
psychologists and psychotherapists specializing in cognitive behavioral therapy,
which have previously had a single conversation with participants.
Advantages of this treatment:
• Check that you are
not alone.
• Independence
• Public commitment
for change, which involves peer pressure to change.
• Motivation to change
on the success of others. It helps them to believe in the techniques used.
• Benefit there are
other people to create various social situations.
• You can keep the
rejection or the fact of recognizing the symptoms of anxiety that is absent in
the social situation. Almost no one ever tells you wearing red in a social
situation.
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