Painfully Shy: Do You Have Social Anxiety Disorder?

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Society Anxiety Self-Assessment Quiz:

Do You Have Social Anxiety Disorder?

By going through the checklists below, you’ll get a good idea of how your body and mind react to the fear of disapproval, and about the range of social and performance situations that you try to avoid. If you decide to seek help from a physician or a therapist, bring this completed form with you. It will provide the professional with much useful information about you and your situation and may speed up the assessment process.

These are ways I engage in "partial avoidance behavior".

(Partial avoidance means that you may not entirely avoid a situation, but you find some way to limit or control your experience of the situation.)

I use alcohol or drugs before entering a feared social situation.

If I attend a social situation, I stay only a certain length of time.

I’m likely to set other conditions on attendance, such as staying close to certain, “safe” people or staying in a certain place.

I frequently try to distract myself by daydreaming or thinking about other things.

I’m likely to avoid eye-contact.

Other:

Next set of questions: physical symptoms

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