Social Anxiety Research Paper

A young girl named Cassie Mccauley was in her classroom when she witnessed the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001. She saw each building collapsing down like fire burning woods and around that time she started feeling light- headed. After it was over she went home and she stayed until the school opened which was one week later, when she returned back to school she was having strange feelings like something terrible was going to happen. She became scared that something was wrong with her and the feelings would come again but when the weekend came she laughed at herself to think that anything was wrong with her. However after a week the feelings came again and again in different situations. She was too embarrassed to tell her family or friends …show more content…
(Shirley Brinkerhoff, page 13-19) Cassie later learned that the feeling she was having was part of panic attack. This is one type of anxiety disorder that is affecting people around the globe. But sometimes anxiety is positive so it can help you in some terrifying situations. Anxiety disorder had and still is affecting people from every different part of the world. There are so many different types of anxiety that people have and anxiety is very common among adolescents and children. One type of anxiety disorder that is very common in the United States is social anxiety disorder and social anxiety has stopped an abundance of people from interacting with other people effectively. All people who have social anxiety can feel negative stress and …show more content…
Some risk factors that cause social anxiety are negative stress from interaction with other people, don’t socially interact with people most of their whole lives, shy much of their whole lives, environment, genetic, and chemical imbalance. (Lucy MacGregor, page 21, 25, and 34) Genetic can greatly influence a person to have social anxiety because if either one of the parents have it there’s a high probability of getting social anxiety. Also, environment plays a role in getting social anxiety because the type of society a person grows up can influence them to be very social or less social depending on their surroundings. The factors that cause generalized anxiety disorder are genetics, anxiety, and panic. (Shirley Brinkerhoff, page 31 and 66) Anxiety is one of the main leading causes of generalized anxiety disorder because people who have a lot of distress don’t know how to control the distress and so they give in to their distress which makes them worry about their selves. Another cause of generalized anxiety disorder is genetic because when somebody in your family is extremely anxious then the offspring can get that gene. The risk factors of separation anxiety disorder depression, parents with panic disorder, and maternal separation. (Tracy L. Morris and John S. March, page 175) An offspring of a parent with panic disorder has a

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