Melike was the invisible, calm girl of the school with her shy attitude. He wasn't like his friends who did a thousand tricks so that the bell would ring so we could go to recess. The first lesson would come, he would sit at his desk at the back, and he would almost never leave his seat until the end of school. Just looking at him from the corner of his eye was enough to make his face red all day. Answering the questions was a nightmare for him. According to him, every word he said would be a laughing stock for his friends. It was difficult to even get up to the blackboard to give a lecture and say your name in front of a group. She didn't want to be watched by someone else while she was doing something. She couldn't look people in the eye and didn't try to defend herself even when she was right. She did not want to express herself, and preferred to say "I agree" when asked her opinion. When she had to speak in public, her body's reactions competed with each other to embarrass her. In such situations, his heart would beat faster than usual and his hands would shake. He didn't know where to put his hands and arms, he was sweating drenched.
His father was a man who didn't laugh much and seemed to talk forcefully. Her mother thought that her daughter looked like her father and chose not to dwell on the issue, but as the years went by, Melike was getting worse. He developed a school phobia due to his shyness and caring too much about people's opinions about him. He left school before starting high school. He now thought that he should just sit at home and stay away from people's opinions. According to him, everyone around him saw him as incompetent and ugly. His panic when he appeared in public led to many clumsiness that he did not do when he was alone.
One day, he watched an interview on television. All the problems he had been experiencing for years were described one by one and this situation was described as social phobia. The expert in the program said that the problem would be eliminated with the simultaneous work of a psychologist and a psychiatrist. Melike shared what she learned with her family and they decided to solve this problem with the help of experts. Melike's biggest chance was to watch that TV program. Because today, these symptoms are not defined as a disease but only as a personality trait. r.
Social Phobia, Not Embarrassment
Social phobia is defined as a state of extreme anxiety felt in social environments. Other people around, especially strangers, cause social phobics to experience extreme anxiety, restlessness and distress. Because of the fear of criticism, they give up doing many things they want to do and accept their fate in their own way. For many, the biggest nightmare is actually having their anxiety noticed by others. Blushing and having your hands trembling seen by others is the greatest torture. They generally choose to escape from people and live a quiet life away from the public eye as a way of escape. Figures regarding lifetime prevalence vary between 3 and 13%. Both pharmacological and psychotherapeutic approaches are effective in the treatment of social phobia. While the psychiatrist stops the disease with antidepressants, the psychologist allows the person to see that the negative thought patterns he has created are unrealistic. The importance of positive thinking in social phobia has been proven by many studies.
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