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Social Phobia
Also Known As: Social Anxiety Disorder
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Condition overview
Attributes
Commonalityis common
Incidenceis approximately 1 in 25 people
Linked signs and symptoms
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- Behaviour: Extreme Self- Consciousness
- Behaviour: Fear of Public Places Or Open Spaces (Agoraphobia)
- Behaviour: Self Imposed Social Isolation
- Heart or Pulse Rate Raised (Tachycardia)
- Heartbeats Felt By Patient (Palpitations)
- Involuntary Trembling Or Quivering (Tremor)
- Mind: Anxiety
- Mind: Fear of Social or Performance Situations
- Mind: Impairments in Social Interaction
- Mind: Shyness Extreme
- Nausea
- Pain Stomach
- Poor Balance (Imbalance)
- Sweating (Perspiring)
Linked drugs / medications
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Treatments, therapies and supportive options
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Counselling and support
8Alternative and complementary therapies
3Alternative therapies
1Linked diagnostic tests and investigations
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Biological and test markers
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Introduction / full article
Social Phobia
Alternative Treatment Efficacy According to GRADE* Ranking:
Creative Art Therapy (Expressive Therapy)
Recomendation: no recommendation (there is insufficient positive evidence showing Expressive Therapy helping to reduce phobias)
Grade of Evidence: very low quality of evidence
Hypnosis:
Recommendation: weakly in favor (Hypnosis is used by therapists to help eliminate their phobias or their effects)
Grade of Evidence: low quality of evidence
Image Therapy:
Recommendation: no recommendation (There is insufficient evidence to show that Image Therapy helps reduce or treat phobias)
Grade of Evidence: low quality of evidence
Neuro-Linguistic Programming:
Recommendation: no recommendation (although a small study has shown that NLP may help with phobias, the methods used have been found to be unreliable)
Grade of Evidence: very low quality of evidence
* www.gradeworkinggroup.org