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Anxiety Disorder

Everyone experiences anxiety as a normal reaction to threatening, dangerous, or important situations. Irregular levels of neurotransmitters in the brain cause Anxiety Disorder. Neurotransmitters are chemicals that carry signals across nerve endings. Ones that seem to contain anxiety have norepinephrine and serotonin.

Out of all the anxiety disorders and most of the mental health care problems, social anxiety disorder (social phobia) is least understood.

Social anxiety was the LAST anxiety disorder to be "discovered", and continues to be LAST in terms of public and professional understanding and awareness.

What makes this so ironic is that fully 8% of the general population suffers from some form of social anxiety, a severely debilitating emotional problem. The vast majority of people with social anxiety do not know that they have it. They know there is something "wrong" with them, but they do not know what it is. They have never been properly diagnosed, because social anxi...

Posted by: Joel Chibota

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