Blogpost 1: Social Anxiety vs. Shyness

What is Social Anxiety? How is it different from Shyness? Are we a Society of Anxiety? These were the questions that always keeps me away from the people whom I want to get along with that has something unusual. In my observations there are people who are scared of talking to others and people whom are just shy of talking to strangers. Well that's a very different story when it comes to anxiety, plus having fear in the peoples judgement and rejections. 

As I read the article made by Craig A. Anderson and Robert J. Harvey the Discriminating Between Problems in Living: An Examination of Measures of Depression, Loneliness, Shyness, and Social Anxiety taught me that both social anxiety and shyness are same in some ways. There are confirmation about the standard measures and scales of these problems in an individual that has the same construct. Though it has its own difference between those illness.

In my own understanding through all of this research about Shyness and Social Anxiety are totally in different area, both of them has their own impairment in an individual. Though they're both alike in some areas of people's emotions but when it comes in psychological thinking they are completely different. there are people who's been living in a Society of Anxiety these people at first were like shy types then, as time passes they got some worries, criticism and regrets in interacting with other people. So it became an anxiety to them more like a phobia they are now being scared to their acquaintance, stranger and even their friends. They keep on worrying things about the people that surrounds them, they even questioned the society that they were living into. It builds fear, stress, pain and worries to those poor people who were the victims of this society, "The Society of Anxiety."

He dare not come in company, for here he should be misused, disgraced, overshoot himself in gesture or speeches or be sick; he thinks everyman observes him.  ~Richard Burton

 http://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/jscp.1988.6.3-4.482