shyness vs. social anxiety
By BART78
@BART78 (2927)
Canada
November 20, 2009 6:19pm CST
i had a childhood friend, when we're still kids his quite non-social type but now his grown up and with couple of friends he is still extremly shy, what i observe to him is he doesn't initiate a conversation in group of people, he hates complaints of other people around him and one time we watch this mini concert he suffer panic attacks, so i was wondering are there diffference with shyness to social anxiety? or social anxiety is just simply extreme shyness? 
2 responses
@mjcookie (2271)
• Philippines
21 Feb 10
I read in an article that social anxiety is much more extreme than shyness. In social anxiety, a person will go great lengths to avoid situations where she thinks she'll be put to humiliation or embarrassment. Shyness is much lighter and more common. A shy person may seem timid but doesn't really avoid social situations.
@pradeeptheone (49)
• India
21 Nov 09
Most the people will have such shyness ,its quite common aspect we do observe in most of the people,and even i'm one among them,feel what the people do think if we say anything wrong or any many more things make the people to feel like that,but once we start talking we just come out of that as if i've come out.....
