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**Questions for Social Anxiety Disorder **
**1. Describe the differences between specific phobias, social phobias, and agoraphobia.**

First, specific phobias, also known as strong irrational fear reactions, just as it's written, it's when someone can't work hard or can't manage to control their fears to go to common places, situations even though knowing that there isn't much fear interacted. Second, social phobias, also known as social anxiety disorder, is when they are making themselves feel powerless and isolated by closing their social lives to the point that they may have few or even no relationships at all. So in other words, they are literally feeling sick from fear in non-threatening situations. Third, agoraphobia is the fear of public and open places, and they try to avoid being in situations from which they think escape would be difficult or help and safety are not readily available. It is often diagnosed in conjunction with panic disorder.


 * 2. What symptoms do children with generalized anxiety disorder have?**

In the reading, it mentioned that social anxiety disorder usually begins in childhood or adolescence, and children are prone to clinging behavior, and tantrums. Children with these disorders are at higher risk to perform poorly in school, to have less developed social skills, and to be more vulnerable to substance abuse. Physical symptoms of social anxiety disorder may include blushing, profuse sweating, trembling, nausea, rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, dizziness, and headaches.


 * 3. Why is it difficult for individuals with panic disorder to get a correct diagnosis?**

I read that a lot of people who have panic disorders don't know they have a real and treatable disorder. Since many of the symptoms of panic disorder mimic those of illnesses, people with panic disorder makes many visits to doctors' offices and emergency rooms, convinced they have a life-threatening illness. It often takes months or years and a great deal of frustration before receiving the correct diagnosis. But to summarize this, it would be difficult for individuals with panic disorder to get a correct diagnosis because it mainly occurs with other physical and mental disorders; which might give out more stress and depression.


 * 4. Describe the methods used to treat anxiety disorders.**

Anxiety disorders are highly treatable with psychosocial therapies, medication, and both. Psychosocial treatments used in the treatment of anxiety disorders include cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), exposure therapy, anxiety management and relaxation therapies, and psychotherapy. Drugs could also be used to treat anxiety disorders; it includes selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines, beta blockers, and monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs).

