The phobia may have its root in a childhood trauma.
Antidepressants are used to treat depression, but they are also helpful for social phobia.
The report challenges criticism that the terms "social phobia" or "social anxiety disorder" medicalize normal shyness.
If so, you may have a type of anxiety disorder called social phobia, also called social anxiety disorder.
The fight or flight mindset of our ancestors is mimicked in the symptoms of a person suffering from a social phobia, says Chemblis.
From Barbie dolls programmed to say "math class is tough" to ministers of state who will parse and analyse a sentence but refuse to answer "what's half of three-quarters?", maths-phobia is everywhere.
The first can be termed a general social phobia.
Medication. Doctors also may prescribe medication to help treat social phobia.
By factor analysis, we get five factors: physical abnormality, behavioral excess, depression, sensitivity and phobia, and credulity.
Weaver agrees that the fear of public speaking is the phobia he has seen to be the most detrimental to a persons' career.
A phobia, after all, is an irrational fear.
Social phobia sometimes runs in families, but no one knows for sure why some people have it, while others don't.
What is social phobia?
At one point, my phobia got so bad that when I gave presentations, my right eye would twitch.
This kind of phobia may involve some other phobia as well like maybe claustrophobia.
This relationship can be characterised as a tragic love affair on the Jewish part, which was met with a deep phobia by Europe.
Without treatment, social phobia can last for many years or a lifetime.
And if you think that's a strange phobia, Johnny Depp, who was in the film 'Pirates of the Caribbean', he's afraid of clowns.
