PSYCH257 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Social Anxiety Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Hard Wired
11 Feb 2020
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Athletes, performers, they are find in other contexts but in high performance area where they have anxiety. Eating in front of others or using public washrooms gives them anxiety. Prevalence: one of the more common anxiety disorder 7% suffer from social anxiety disorder, mid-teens for full blown social anxiety disorder. Sex differences females more represented than males. Onset age 8-15 onset can be seen. Comorbidity alcohol use in order to calm anxiety. Major depressive disorder also takes place with this. Heritable personality traits behavioural inhibition this is extremely heritable, from birth they are sensitive and reactive. Constrictive and react negatively to things- grow up to be shy, extraordinarily shy. Wrong match between caregiver and will increase social anxiety disorder. Biologically some kids are just born this way. Learning experiences some type of experience in a social context. Shy people play an important role in society those who like to work alone, computer programmers, scientists.
