Social anxiety is an emotional disorder that is closely related to shyness. And if shyness can be overcome, social anxiety can also be overcome. Because it is an emotional disorder, it is convenient to treat anxiety or social phobia with specialized treatments. We tell you what are the best treatments to overcome social anxiety.
How to overcome social anxiety
- When shyness is taken to the extreme and public situations not only make you uncomfortable but also cause you to panic, it is because you may be suffering from social anxiety. Anxiety or social phobia is an emotional disorder and as such must be treated medically.
- The medications that usually accompany any treatment against social anxiety are anxiolytics, drugs that are as effective when it comes to relaxing and relieving fear as they are dangerous due to their high dependence. That is why most people opt for other treatments to overcome their social phobia. There is no shortage of those who resort to hypnosis, a therapy that if performed by a specialist gives very good results.
- However, the most effective treatment to treat social anxiety is cognitive behavioral therapy. This therapy focuses on two aspects of the emotional disorder, which are automatic thoughts and erratic behavior. Trusting in the value of positive thinking, this therapy teaches the person with social anxiety to assess situations from a more realistic and less pessimistic point of view.
- Once the person suffering from this pathological shyness is aware of the need to relativize their reactions, cognitive-behavioral therapy goes one step further by gradually exposing them to all those social situations that scare them. With the help of a psychologist and with a lot of desire to overcome the problem, the social anxiety disappears and a person is less shy and with more social skills.
