Social phobia has become a very important health problem in today’s conditions where people need to show high performance both in their business and private lives. It is very normal for people to be a little shy and in some cases to blush with embarrassment, to sweat with their hands, to get excited while speaking in front of a crowd or making a presentation in business life, in fact it is strange that these do not happen. However, to what extent is this shyness and excitement normal? Stress and tension are factors that increase success up to a certain level. We can say that it is not possible for a person who does not experience any stress and tension to be successful in life, this forces us to be more prepared, to work more, to struggle to protect our image, human relations and our job. However, as stress increases, its effectiveness in this direction decreases, due to stress, it actually magnifies the things we could do better under normal conditions, the problems we could solve, the troubles we could overcome, and as we magnify them in our minds, we get anxious and eventually fail. In other words, the relationship between stress and success reverses after a while, this is called the Yerkes-Dudson rule. Here it is; If stress and tension have started to take the person to the opposite side, if the person cannot reach the points he/she can in his/her business life, if he/she cannot express his/her feelings to the person he/she feels close to for months, if he/she is already losing sleep because of a meeting or a speech he/she will have in 3 months and even if he/she is very well prepared for the meeting, if he/she is looking through his/her notes out of excitement, at this point, shyness and timidity cease to be positive emotions and it can be said that a social phobic behavior pattern has been established.
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Social phobia is twice as common in women as in men, and usually begins during adolescence. Social phobia is seen in 8% of women and 4% of men. Anyone who thinks they have social phobia should definitely get treatment, because this disorder is not related to the person’s intelligence or level of education, and the person realizes their disorder and feels great sadness because of it, and the feeling of not being able to live the life they deserve makes the person unhappy. For this reason, chronic depression is also added to the majority of people with social phobia, and since people start to resort to alcohol and other substances that they think will increase their self-confidence in order to cope with this problem, addiction is also a side problem that we encounter quite frequently in this group.
