How to get over social phobia

The family environment and personality factors of some people growing up will directly affect a person's ability to interact with others, and social phobia is mainly caused by a person's fear of stepping out of his or her own heart, let alone communicating with others. This is often caused by the patient's own inferiority complex and loneliness. However, many people with social phobia are now actively looking for ways to overcome social phobia. Today I will introduce you to several methods.

Social phobia is a subtype of phobia. Phobia was originally called phobic neurosis, which is a type of neurosis. The main manifestation is excessive and unreasonable fear of certain objective things or situations in the outside world. The patient knows that this fear reaction is excessive or unreasonable, but it still recurs and is difficult to control. Fear attacks are often accompanied by obvious anxiety and autonomic nervous system symptoms. Patients try their best to avoid the objective objects or situations that cause fear, or endure them with fear, thus affecting their normal activities. Common phobia subtypes include agoraphobia, social phobia, and specific phobia.

1. Generally there are no obvious or persistent psychotic symptoms. Neurotic disorders are mainly manifested by anxiety, depression, fear, compulsion, and hypochondriasis. These symptoms can exist alone, but most of them are mixed, especially anxiety symptoms; there are rarely obvious or persistent psychotic symptoms.

2. The lack of clear organic lesions is based on various organic diseases such as infection, poisoning, substance dependence, metabolic or endocrine disorders and brain organic diseases. Various neurotic symptoms may appear, but they cannot be diagnosed as neurosis. Diagnosis of neurotic disorders requires exclusion of organic diseases.

3. Patients often have painful experiences with their illnesses. Most patients with neurotic disorders maintain good self-awareness during the onset of the illness. Their reality testing abilities are usually not impaired. They can not only identify whether their mental state is normal, but also determine which of their own experiences are pathological. Since patients' experience of neurotic disorders is often very painful and the symptoms are often disproportionate to the actual situation, patients can often experience this deeply and their pain is aggravated, so they often have a strong desire to seek treatment. However, the diagnosis and treatment process that cannot find a clear cause may aggravate the patient's painful experience and have a certain impact on the patient's social function. Their work, study efficiency and adaptability are all reduced to varying degrees. The worsening of the disease and the chronicity of the disease may also cause a small number of patients to lose their self-awareness.

4. Psychosocial factors and premorbid personality play a certain role in the occurrence and development of neurotic disorders. Psychosocial stress factors are related to the onset of neurotic disorders.

1. Normal people's fear Normal people will also have a certain degree of tension and anxiety in social occasions. The key is to consider comprehensively the rationality of this fear, the frequency of occurrence, the degree of fear, whether it is accompanied by autonomic nervous system symptoms, whether it obviously affects social functions, and whether there is avoidance behavior.

2. Differentiation from other neurotic disorders: Both phobia and anxiety disorder have anxiety as the core symptom, but the anxiety of social phobia is caused by specific objects or situations, and is situational and episodic, while the anxiety of anxiety disorder often has no clear object and often persists. The compulsive fear of obsessive-compulsive disorder comes from certain thoughts or ideas in one's heart. What is feared is losing self-control, not fear of external things. Hypochondriasis patients may express fear of illness due to excessive concern about their own condition, and they believe that their doubts and concerns are reasonable.

3. Depressive disorders: Some depressive disorders are accompanied by short-term fear, and some patients with social phobia are also accompanied by depression. The coexistence of phobia and depression can aggravate fear. The diagnosis is based on whether the diagnostic criteria for each disorder are met at that time. If the patient meets the criteria for a depressive disorder before the onset of fear symptoms, the diagnosis of a depressive disorder should be given priority.

4. Temporal lobe epilepsy can manifest as paroxysmal fear, but the fear has no specific object. The impaired consciousness, EEG changes and neurological signs during the attack can be used for identification.

1. People with social phobia accept themselves. Learn to accept your inner fears and don’t hate yourself for who you are. Only by honestly admitting your own shortcomings can you take the first step towards self-confidence. Repeatedly doubting and denying yourself will only put yourself in a vicious cycle.

2. Encourage yourself and face it bravely. You can encourage yourself every day, don’t deny yourself, encourage yourself loudly, and say to yourself, “I can do it, I’m not afraid.” Then anticipate various social situations and prepare a plan in your mind. Practice and try step by step, and you can start with the person you trust the most. Remember not to avoid socializing. Avoiding it will not only fail to solve the problem, but may also increase your psychological burden. Tell yourself to take that step bravely.

3. Don’t stay at home, go out and exercise more. Hiding at home all the time will only make your heart more closed. Open the door, go out and learn to embrace the world. Exercise more. It can release stress, relax your body and mind. During exercise, you can also observe others and start socializing.