Social anxiety - interpersonal causes and effects

Abstract

Anxiety is one of the attributes of human existence, but it is not part of the category of those who maintain it, such as the need for food, shelter, perpetuation, but as a counter to them, a kind of shadowy companion of human beginnings and trials. Anxiety is an inevitable life experience and involves subjective feelings - worry, physiological responses - tachycardia, as well as behavioral responses - avoidance. Under certain conditions, anxiety is beneficial, preparing the body for action. We can say that self-controlling beneficial anxiety accompanies the human being in providing food and shelter. In unique situations, anxiety helps the person to prepare for coping and even solving them, having an adaptive role. At the same time, anxiety is a good protection against a possible danger. Under the mentioned conditions, the anxiety is at an optimal level, bearable both from a mental and physiological point of view for the controllable development of an activity. However, when anxiety takes over and disrupts daily life, it is no longer considered normal, slipping into pathology, in these conditions it is called anxiety disorder. In this case, we are not talking about an adaptive anxiety, this being felt as a suffering and becomes bearable only by giving up the natural and pleasant, limiting the individual's existence to different strategies of avoidance or compensation.