We all experience anxiety in social situations, whether it's the flutter of nerves you feel before giving a presentation or ...

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR): Besides CBT, EMDR therapy can also be an effective tool for social anxiety, as it helps identify and work through traumatic experiences that may ...

Social anxiety disorder is marked by an intense fear of judgment, the strong and pervasive sense that most people are thinking poorly of you, and the equally intense urge to avoid most, if not all, ...

Three in 5 Americans experience anxiety over world events, family safety, or financial security, according to a recent mental ...

As you probably know from personal experience, anxiety can be a lot of things — a cause of insomnia, a roadblock to living your best life or a demon you have to fight off if you want to accomplish ...

Social anxiety and agoraphobia share several characteristics. However, they are two distinct conditions with various key differences. Social anxiety and agoraphobia are two different conditions that ...

It’s common for adolescents to feel nervous or shy around others. But how their parents treat them may help ease or worsen their social anxiety, according to a  new study from the University of ...

Cliched advice can be a hit or a miss, It depends on the context, how it's received, and when it is given. When we dissect it, we can often extract multiple meanings. Some of it, however, is plain bad ...

Anjali sat at the kitchen table in front of a blank piece of paper. She sat, and sat, and sat. Then she got up from the table and walked away. The unfinished task? A Valentine’s card for her ...

Be sure to scroll down after this story to find links to extensive Medscape Medical News coverage addressing mental health and medical professionals. The nightmares started in his second quarter of ...

Aimee Lou Wood suffered body dysmorphia, bulimia and social anxiety as a teenager, and was diagnosed with ADHD earlier this ...

No: Kierkegaard was referring to anxiety itself. He believed that understanding and using one’s anxiety was the great ...