Facts About Social Anxiety #1
Overcoming social anxiety and shyness is often made far easier when you learn as much as you can about the condition itself. To help get you started, here are 6 facts about social anxiety.
1. Did you know that social anxiety is the most common of all the various forms of anxiety disorder? Social anxiety disorder affects more than 10 million Americans at any one time, putting it ahead of generalized anxiety disorder, which ranks second.
2. It’s now firmly accepted by most experts that social anxiety is hereditary, and runs in families. There are also other factors that can contribute to the developing of social anxiety (environmental factors, upbringing, life experiences), but heredity is by far the most common shared cause.