Social phobia

Social phobia, clinically designated as social anxiety disorder, is a psychiatric condition characterized by a persistent and intense fear or anxiety regarding social or performance situations where the individual may be exposed to unfamiliar people or potential scrutiny by others

Primarily affecting the central nervous system and neurocognitive pathways, it frequently has an onset during late childhood or adolescence and involves heightened amygdala reactivity alongside dysregulated corticolimbic circuitry

Primarily affecting the central nervous system and neurocognitive pathways, it frequently has an onset during late childhood or adolescence and involves heightened amygdala reactivity alongside dysregulated corticolimbic circuitry

Patients experience marked anxiety over acting in a way that leads to negative evaluation, humiliation, or embarrassment, which often triggers somatic signs of autonomic arousal such as blushing, trembling, diaphoresis, and tachycardia

Patients experience marked anxiety over acting in a way that leads to negative evaluation, humiliation, or embarrassment, which often triggers somatic signs of autonomic arousal such as blushing, trembling, diaphoresis, and tachycardia

This distress routinely leads to pervasive avoidance behaviors that substantially impair academic, occupational, or social functioning