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Social anxiety disorder is a very common mental condition, but it's often misunderstood and minimized by non-sufferers and individuals outside the mental-health profession. Many people mistake social anxiety for straightforward shyness rather than a real and debilitating condition. This could cause sufferers to retreat from society and experience more isolation. Knowing someone with social panic attacks, your support can be an integral a part of her treatment. Before you can offer support, however, you initially have to educate yourself.

Cognitive behavior treatments are probably the most well-known and the most practiced type of modern psychotherapy and has been built-into highly structured package for that treatment of patients suffering from social phobia. The current case study is an attempt to provide therapeutic intervention program to some 27-year-old, unmarried Christian man struggling with social phobia.

While it is common to feel unhappy and sad at various stages of your life, the real problem arises when this sadness and callousness stays for longer duration of time and the effected person feels frequent mood swings along with losing interest in day to day activities and social affairs. In the severe cases of depression one may also behave like an insane person with constant crying and witness different types of hallucinations.