What has caused the sudden increase in people with Social Anxiety?
25 April 2010
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Rich asked:
It seems like Social Anxiety is a fairly new disorder. What has it made it so prominent in the past couple decades?
It seems like Social Anxiety is a fairly new disorder. What has it made it so prominent in the past couple decades?
One viewpoint is that it hasn’t increased. People are just more in touch with their emotions nowadays–which has caused more awareness of it and that awareness can actually enhance the symptoms of SA.
I don’t think thats completely true. I agree that people are more in touch with their emotions, but I’d still say there is an increase caused by something else.
Does anybody have any thoughts as to why you think SA has increased in the past years?
I appreciate it.
I believe that one cause of SA being higher is the way we communicate. SA was lower because we actually talked face to face with our peers and interacted with them more on a personal level. Now with all the new technology(cell phones, texting, computers) and such, we tend to communicate only through those means, so when we have to go out and face the world…we don’t know how to interact with people face to face anymore. We live in a world where we would rather be “anonymous” than be personable.
My story
For the last 14 years i have not been able to interact with people, at school i avoided most of the classes and now i rarely leave the house because i hated seeing people and think people would judge me etc.
I didn’t tell anyone about it as i was very ashamed of it, i am a women in her twenties i should be able to go to the local shop. But in the end i did go to the doctor and was diagnosed with SA.
I think people are more aware of it and are feeling less embarrassed by asking for help so hence why it is on the increase.
Stress & pressure! You know…people used to be happy to relax and have family time and time to themselves, and go on vacations.. Now the world is so caught up in ‘Being Busy’ People brag about how busy they are are have to prove to the world that they are busy.. So I think that has a lot to do with it. Also, all the negativity in the world today, I mean just watching the news can make you a nervous reck.
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