Social phobia or better known as Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is a disorder in humans which is anxiety, nervousness or excessive fear in the social environment.
Social anxiety disorder can occur as a result of mental health disorders on a person, which are caused by problems in the social environment or heredity.
Causes of Social anxiety disorder:
1. Heredity or genetics
People can be affected by SAD caused because getting from family members who are also experiencing SAD. So if the people affected by SAD due to heredity / genetics can be known when still a child when it will enter the social world.
2. Environment
Besides heredity / genetic, people can also be affected by SAD due to environmental influences, in particular because of trauma in the social environment. Social trauma is like; excommunicated / bullied in the environment, experienced a tragedy that caused embarrassment highly etc, which causes people to become trauma / fear of the social environment.
3. Self (Psychology)
Ourselves, more especially psychologically. People can experience SAD because it has always been self-deprecating thoughts, lack of self-confidence and have a timid nature.
Characteristics of Social anxiety disorder :
- Feeling uneasy being in crowded places.
- Fearful / anxious to meet new people.
- Always feel afraid in situations where being considered / assessed / at the judge.
- Fearing embarrass himself.
- Fearing that others will see the fear / anxiety.
- Avoiding which will be the center of attention.
- Avoiding social activities, even though it looks fun social activity.
- Evade / hide when guests are not yet known to come home.
- Fear / anxiety calls from people not known.
- Fear of looking at people.
- It is hard to talk in a social environment.
