Social phobia, as a rule, manifests itself in very young people, but can accompany a person and his whole life.
Signs of social phobia
Usually a social phobia makes itself felt in those cases when it is necessary to go out on people and do something. It can be elementary things: at the lesson they called you to the blackboard, they asked you to read the poem on the holiday, you need an oral answer in the exam. Some very shy people avoid eating not only in canteens, but even in the presence of fairly familiar people, they are horrified to think that they will be told if they go to the toilet for everyone, are embarrassed to find their place in the theater and try to go to hall, when the light is already extinguished.
Symptoms of social phobia
Social phobia manifests itself at the physiological level. Man is so afraid of being in an awkward position, as it seems to him, that he sweats, feels weak, his tongue is taken away, his face turns red. He feels heat and suffocation, some even become sick.
Methods to combat social phobia
Overcoming social phobia is to realize that other people are doing all these frightening things quite calmly, and no one pays the slightest attention to them .
It is better to try to overcome this with a confident person, to whom unlimited confidence is experienced - with parents, friends, with a respected person.
You can enter together, for example, at the station to the toilet, while looking around and make sure that no one pays attention to who and where goes.
Together with her friend to go to the cafe and from the heart to eat delicious things, again, with the edge of her eye noting that everyone else is busy with their food and they do not care about anyone's business.
Usually such simple actions help to cope with manifestations of social phobia, but in especially severe cases, social anxiety disorder and social phobia need psychocorrection.