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The many faces of fear and anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric diagnosis, encompassing

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a wide range of conditions, specific phobia, excessive fear of certain stimuli may indicate a specific

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phobia.

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The person may realize their fears are overblown, which doesn't make it any easier to check them.

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Avoidance of the feared object or situation is very common.

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Anything can become an object of fear, but certain ones are most typical.

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They include certain situations, for example, riding in an elevator, flying in an airplane, natural

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environments, thunderstorms, heintz animals, spiders, snakes, blood injection injury, giving blood,

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getting a shot.

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A social anxiety disorder.

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It's normal to feel a moderate amount of anxiety in social situations, especially when we're performing

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or being evaluated, social anxiety, maybe a disorder when it's so strong that it causes a tremendous

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distress or leads a person to avoid situations that would trigger typical feared situations, including

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giving a speech or presentation, talking in a group of people, eating in front of others, going to

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a party, being the center of attention, disagreeing with someone, meeting new people.

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In each of these situations, the person is afraid of doing something embarrassing or otherwise have

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having others think badly of them.

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But of what can make social anxiety persist is that it's hard to disconfirm the fears.

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How do we know, for example, that people didn't hate our wedding speech?

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Or if they do, they're socially expected, think and tell us it was great.

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The uncertainty inherent in social situations can perpetuate our fears.