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Social anxiety is identified as excessive fear and
stress related to being watched by others. This could be from speaking
engagements in crowds to eating a meal among family members or peers.
This can impact an individual’s work or school. This can be
debilitating to the point where there is a major avoidance of these
situations, and these individuals also have a tendency to self medicate
with alcohol, or other recreational drugs. There is some evidence
that social anxiety does run in families. However it is important
to note that some believe there is an organic basis to social anxiety.
The author would like to digress for a second. The general public
needs to be aware that healthcare professionals, as all individuals,
have agendas. We will target extremists at another time. But it
is important to note that there are healthcare professionals who
believe many disorders have an organic basis and do not believe
in the environmental influence of social anxiety, as well as other
disorders. This author is here to emphatically state that it is
a combination of both. Social anxieties can clearly not have a hereditary
component, and can clearly not have an organic basis. This will
be discussed further.
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