Social Phobias
Social Phobia
Social phobia is a type of anxiety relating to meeting people and making social situations unusually difficult. Anxiety is a type of panic and is associated with adrenaline spikes (the fight-flight response) and is often related to a sense of nerves that things aren't going to be ready in time, or that something will go wrong, or won't meet with approval. So in the case of social phobia, the anxiety is that something will go wrong or that people we are meeting might not like us, and so on.
If a person is nearly always anxious, it may be a general condition termed GAD, or Generalized Anxiety 'Disorder'. If it only relates to social situations, and not in other situations, then it is more likely a kind of social phobia.
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