Factors that affect Social Anxiety Disorders/Phobias
- Tends to run in families
- Negative experiences
- Brain chemisty involving serotonin, which helps regulate moods and emotions
- Brain structure involving the amygdala, which is in control of fear
- Females are more likely to get social anxiety disorders
- Social anxiety disorder may be a learned behaviour in the environment the person affected lives in
- New social or possible work demands
- Having a possible health condition that could draw attention
- Negative experiences
- Brain chemisty involving serotonin, which helps regulate moods and emotions
- Brain structure involving the amygdala, which is in control of fear
- Females are more likely to get social anxiety disorders
- Social anxiety disorder may be a learned behaviour in the environment the person affected lives in
- New social or possible work demands
- Having a possible health condition that could draw attention