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Out
of all the anxiety disorders and most of the mental
health care problems, social anxiety disorder (social
phobia) is least understood.
Social anxiety was the LAST anxiety disorder to be
"discovered", and continues to be LAST in terms
of public and professional understanding and
awareness.
What
makes this so ironic is that fully 8% of the general
population suffers from some form of social anxiety, a
severely debilitating emotional problem.
The vast
majority of people with social anxiety do not know that
they have it. They know there is something
"wrong" with them, but they do not know what it
is.
They have never been properly diagnosed,
because social anxiety is as foreign to counselors,
therapists, doctors, psychologists, and psychiatrists as
it is to most other people.
Even though an abundance of research now exists about social anxiety,
clinicians, in general, have not read it, and have not put it into
practice.
A large part of the problem is that social
anxiety is difficult to fully understand because you can't "see"
it...
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