The many faces of fear and anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric diagnosis, encompassing
a wide range of conditions, specific phobia, excessive fear of certain stimuli may indicate a specific
phobia.
The person may realize their fears are overblown, which doesn't make it any easier to check them.
Avoidance of the feared object or situation is very common.
Anything can become an object of fear, but certain ones are most typical.
They include certain situations, for example, riding in an elevator, flying in an airplane, natural
environments, thunderstorms, heintz animals, spiders, snakes, blood injection injury, giving blood,
getting a shot.
A social anxiety disorder.
It's normal to feel a moderate amount of anxiety in social situations, especially when we're performing
or being evaluated, social anxiety, maybe a disorder when it's so strong that it causes a tremendous
distress or leads a person to avoid situations that would trigger typical feared situations, including
giving a speech or presentation, talking in a group of people, eating in front of others, going to
a party, being the center of attention, disagreeing with someone, meeting new people.
In each of these situations, the person is afraid of doing something embarrassing or otherwise have
having others think badly of them.
But of what can make social anxiety persist is that it's hard to disconfirm the fears.
How do we know, for example, that people didn't hate our wedding speech?
Or if they do, they're socially expected, think and tell us it was great.
The uncertainty inherent in social situations can perpetuate our fears.