| Social anxiety or social phobia has many varied | | | | babies with such a disposition are quick to show |
| causes, including biological, psychological and social. | | | | stress and fear of unfamiliar situations and people, |
| However, each one may be intertwined so it is hard | | | | and as they grow into teenagers and adults, their risk |
| to specify exacting ones. Though it is not yet known | | | | for getting social phobia increases. Also, studies have |
| if social anxiety is caused by a genetic disposition or | | | | shown that it may also have something do with the |
| something learned through family social conditioning, it | | | | section of your brain that controls fears (amygdale). |
| does appear that it can run in the family. The first | | | | Through CAT scans, doctors have found that people |
| group of causes include environmental and social. It is | | | | with this disorder have an excess amount of activity |
| believed by some social phobia experts that it is | | | | in the amygdale and too little in the prefrontal brain |
| possible to learn this from the environment in which | | | | cortex. Biochemically speaking, more studies indicate |
| you are in. It has been suggested that simply | | | | that an imbalance in the serotonin levels in the brain, |
| interacting and watching others with similar | | | | dopamine, GABA and neurotransmitters may be to |
| tendencies can be influential. Also, it is possible that | | | | blame. The most common group that social anxiety |
| overprotective and controlling parents may develop | | | | disorder sufferers fall into is the second. Each and |
| this in their children and fail to recognize the disorder | | | | everyday, many people, young and old, experience |
| in them because they too suffer from it and consider | | | | traumas, some of which they may well put behind |
| it to be perfectly normal. Others think that people | | | | them for many years, or at least they believe, but |
| may develop social phobias based on a negative | | | | somewhere inside of them, they have not learned to |
| childhood event, including bullying, public | | | | cope with the resulting trauma, but in fact pushed |
| embarrassment and teasing. Such indicators include | | | | the emotional side 'under the carpet' or so to speak. |
| disfigurement, abuse (sexual and physical), neglect, | | | | When this happens it is essential to get medical |
| speech impediments or conflicts within a family. The | | | | support and treatment. Such traumas as abuse, rape |
| second group of causes of social anxiety is thought | | | | and other experiences can develop from social |
| to be due to psychological or emotional trauma | | | | anxiety to include even post-traumatic shock |
| experienced in childhood. The subsequent symptoms | | | | disorder, which can attack any person at any time in |
| may be the direct result of unresolved traumatic | | | | their lives. It may manifest itself many years later, |
| experiences such as car accidents, abuse, relationship | | | | even after the trauma has since been apparently |
| breakdowns, humiliation or even a natural disaster. | | | | forgotten. Though there are many cause of social |
| The key elements of that are common amongst all | | | | anxiety phobias, the bottom line is that the result is |
| people suffering anxiety as a result of traumas | | | | an unnatural fear of social interaction and a lowered |
| include an event or experience that was not | | | | self-esteem that can not only hinder a person's ability |
| expected, the person was not prepared for, and | | | | to function in everyday situations, but in some cases |
| there was little if anything that the person could have | | | | hinder the person's ability to simply live a normal |
| done to have pretended it from occurring. However, | | | | existence outside of their home. Sometimes the |
| such traumas can also run deeper, including a poor | | | | disorder is so debilitating that the person cannot even |
| bonding between the major caregiver and the person | | | | carry on regular daytime activities. If you or anyone |
| during childhood. The person may well have not | | | | you suspect may have this disorder, there is no |
| learned the skills needed to regulate calmness, | | | | shame in asking for medical help. This does not have |
| self-soothing and focus during stressful events. The | | | | to be a lifelong affliction, nor is it normal because |
| third social anxiety cause is biological in nature, | | | | someone else you know is dealing with it by pushing |
| including biochemical reactions, the structure of the | | | | it away. Your family doctor is your best source of |
| brain and the possibility of the disorder having been | | | | relief in this regard. |
| inherited genetically. In genetical inheritance, most | | | | Gary Miller was so scared that he actually passed out |
| researchers believe that the main part of the | | | | during a presentation and couldn't talk after due to |
| disorder is born out of inhibited behavior. Young | | | | numerous social anxieties. |