Cure Options

Social phobia (social anxiety disorder) is fear of and anxiety about exposure to certain social or performance situations, often resulting in avoidance.

Although some anxiety in social situations is normal, people with social phobia have so much anxiety that they either avoid social situations or endure them with distress.

About 13% of people have social phobia sometime in their life. The disorder affects about 9% of women and 7% of men during any 12-month period. Men are more likely than women to have the most severe form of social anxiety, avoidant personality disorder.

As is the case with other types of panic disorders, the conventional treatment of social anxiety pursues a combination of drug treatment along with therapy.

Here are the details of both:

a) Conventional Treatment : The conventional treatment for social anxiety or phobia is drug treatment, combined with therapy if available. This basically involves taking anti-anxiety and/ or anit-depressant pills to relieve the associated anxiety and panic.

There are three distinct disadvantages with this line of treatment. One is that the relief is temporaray and once the effect of the drug wears off, you are back to square one.

Secondly, it is highly addictive with some side-effects as well.

Thirdly, while there are several benefits to individual therapy, you ought to have the financial resources and time to pursue that route.

Often, even when you have the finaincial rsources, the difficulty is not in finding a individual therapist, but in findinag a qualified therapist who specializes in treating social anxiety disorders.

b) Self-help Programs:

Self-help programs for social anxiety are a effective alternative to conventional treatment for panic and anxiety attacks of all knds. 

The positive aspect about such programs is that the author has put in the necessary time and effort to research and evaluate the provided information prior to assembling the course.

So you don't have to go the trial and error route yourself and are given accurate and proven techniques to conquer your panic and anxiety attacks.

Some self-help programs are purely informational in nature, while others are step by step programs to overcome your panic and anxiety attacks. All of them can be downloaded online in the form of ebooks or audio or video files.

Your choices among self-help programs are many. You should select a program that you feel is best for your preferred learning method and individual panic attack type.

Most slef-help programs are very cost effective.  

Self-help programs, therefore, are the best and proven alternative for curing panic attacks and disorders.

Given below are proven self-help remedies for social anxiety/phobia: