Differentiating Terms
In this video I briefly explain the difference between some of the terms commonly used in association with social anxiety. These include Social Anxiety, Social Phobia, Social Anxiety Disorder, Avoidant Personality Disorder, Shyness and Introversion
Tags: Avoidant Personality Disorder, AvPD, Definition, Extroversion, Introversion, SA, SAD, Shy, Shyness, Social Anxiety, Social Anxiety Disorder, Social Phobia, SP, Terms
March 2nd, 2011 at 4:32 am
This is interesting– I thought that having social phobia would necessitate also being an introvert. It must be very difficult to derive your energy from your environment and people (like an extrovert) and yet feel anxiety when faced with social situations. Whether you’re alone and bored or with people and anxious, there wouldn’t really be a content state of being for an extrovert with social phobia, no?
I’m an introvert and I have social phobia, but I kinda like hanging out with myself so it’s not all bad.