so do you have social phobia or social anxiety in this video?
I'm talking about the exact differences between them all.
That's coming up.
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Okay guys.
So social phobia is all social anxiety.
How do you know the difference?
Right.
It's an interesting concept.
So.
A lot of people, um, will have social phobia and more people will have social
anxiety, but is there a difference in how do you know the difference?
So first off the bat, yes, there is a difference.
There's a difference between having a phobia and having anxiety
and just straight off the bat.
Right.
And there are many differences between no, no.
I've listed out three differences.
Um, But between them really, it will go through in this video.
Um, and, uh, the two conditions are completely separate social phobia and
social anxiety, two different things.
So they do act in different ways and they do impact the, the mental health
of a person in different ways as well.
So I'm going to go through those and break them down right now.
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Okay guys.
So first one is a phobia versus an anxiety.
Now a phobia comes from a deep rooted fear that is caused by trauma.
Right now this could be historical or fantasy.
Um, you know, so you could actually have had historical trauma, which would
cause you to have, um, a deep-rooted phobia or you can have like a fantasy,
like you could have had a dream about something that scared you, or you could
have invented something in your head.
That would cause you to have this phobia and anxiety is in mental
health condition caused by a misguided reaction to an issue.
So mental health issues like anxiety is like it's having the reaction
you're getting to being somewhere is having a miscommunication within the
brain, which is causing you to have an anxiety about it rather than a
relationship of understanding with it.
Whereas a social phobia would be something that was caused by
trauma or past trauma beforehand.
So you can see how.
And anxiety is more of a mental health condition, but like a phobia is more of
a trauma-based mental health condition.
So they are both mental health conditions, a phobia act from a fear of something.
And what anxiety gives you an anxious, nervous feeling because it can't
understand or compute the kind of chaos or the situation that one is presented in.
This is really, really interesting.
And I love talking about this stuff now.
Number two is therapy.
So.
Hypnosis therapy can work for social phobias along with kind of
medication and other bits and pieces.
Right.
But social anxiety we'll need stuff like CBT and other kind
of physical, psychological kind of therapies to improve it.
Um, because, uh, you know, when you're dealing with a phobia, you can, you
can set a phobia off with using things like, um, You know, for instance, the
hypno therapy and that kind of stuff.
So you can offset, um, you know, phobia by doing different types of
therapy, especially hypnotherapy and talking and counseling therapy, whereas
anxiety, because there's a mental health condition caused by misguided
interactions from issues, um, more kind of like behavioral therapy and.
And psychotherapy will be used to improve that condition.
And I don't think you can ever really get away from the anxiety.
You can improve it, but you can't get away from a phobia, which I
find really, really interesting.
Okay.
So number three is fear versus reaction.
It's social phobia is a genuine fear of a social place or a social situation, right?
But social anxiety is your body's kind of fight or flight response to
a situation that makes you anxious.
So when you have a genuine fear or something, the thing it causes
you to like, just completely just terrified or something.
But when you have an anxiety, you're nervous, it's because
there's something that's making you anxious about that duration.
So there is something to be said that a.
You know, a fear, his reaction kind of social phobia is a fear and social anxiety
is a reaction and one is reaction base.
The other one is fear based and I suppose having a fear of something
is a reaction to something, but that is a difference between them.
Now I suffer from a social anxiety perspective, just being
the fact that I don't really, um, understand people's intentions.
Socializing can be quite difficult with people, especially new people.
I've never met before and also social settings, like shopping centers,
shopping malls, all that kinds of stuff can be very difficult for me.
But in terms of social phobia is I don't think I have a social
phobia because I have nothing to be scared of in terms of like a fear
factor in a social environment.
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