I have suffered from social anxiety in the past, mainly in the form of panic attacks and generalized anxiety. Have you ever experienced this?
I used to have crippling social anxiety disorder, my fear of social situations crippled me to my core.
Me too! I was agoraphobic for a year! I barely left my house. I never thought I would recover but this was 30 years ago and I'm doing great today. How are you?
Social phobias are becoming increasingly more common and it's because more kids spend more and more time at home on social media rather than interacting. The fear is real.
This is a great point you make and one I have never considered before. I can see how social media and kids spending all their free time away from social interactions could produce an agoraphobic society.
Social media
Social media are interactive computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks. The variety of stand-alone and built-in social media services currently available introduces challenges of definition; however, there are some common features:
1. Social media are interactive Web 2.0 Internet-based applications.
2. User-generated content, such as text posts or comments, digital photos or videos, and data generated
other research references more specific types such as social anxiety. The term anxiety covers a range of difficulties and several specific diagnoses, including panic attacks, phobias, and generalized anxiety disorder. Panic attacks are relatively short, intense bursts of fear that may or may not have a trigger (a cause in the immediate environment that happens right before they occur). They are sometimes a part of other anxiety disorders. Phobias may be specific to objects, situations, people, or places. They can result in avoidance behaviors or,