Fall Behind Your RDI.

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Men : 21 units/week or 4 units/day
Women : 14 units/week or 3 units/day
If you have been drinking more than your recommended alcohol intake, drink less a bottle or less half a pint every time until you are comfortable with your recommended daily intake or less.

Eat Big.

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Eat a really, really full meal before to minimize and delay alcohol entering your mouth and bloodstream.

Keep a record of your drinks.

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EVERY one of them. The point is to increase awareness. I highly recommend either using Evernote or Google Docs as both works with nearly every computer, phone and mobile device. Include the size and type.

Ration.

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Example, drag your bottle of beer to last for 30 minutes or order pints in halves. This slows down the amount of alcohol entering your body, ingesting less compared to slurping unconditionally.

Alcohol Then Water.

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Substitute every second drink with water. If you are in the company of friends and find it hard to do so, get your water from unseen places. Examples: keep a bottle of water in the car, get water from another section of the bar/pub/club, the tap from the washroom (applies to cities with safe to drink tap water). You get the drift. The aim is to dilute the alcohol in your body, keeping yourself as sober as possible. It also helps your stomach stay full, discouraging acts like guzzling, chugging and bottoms up.

Stick To 1 Type.

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Alcohol in and of itself is an irritant to your stomach and your nervous system. Alcohol contains congeners, toxins that are by-products from the process of fermentation that distinguish each of the different alcohol types and are a factor in the occurrence of hangovers. Mixing different types of alcohol is more likely to expose you to different congeners, which can increase the chances of becoming sick. Give your system a fighting chance by having it to cope with only 1 irritant type.

End your nights earlier.

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Make 2am the cutoff time for social events. If you’re home, lights off at 10.30pm. If you’re already approaching your daily recommended intake, start preparing to go to sleep.

Just Throw Up.

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For example, if you’ve had 5 bottles, and one is still unprocessed in your stomach when you throw up, it’s like you only had 4 bottles. Although vomiting does not aid the detox process, it reduces your body’s workload.

Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind.

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Take a different route home to avoid being tempted to visit the pub.

Only Duty Free.

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Stop buying alcohol from the local stores. Buy only duty free alcohol to keep at home, restricting purchases to only during travel.

Strictly Social.

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Drink only when around other drinking friends.

Weekend.

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Consume only during weekends and public holidays.

Alternate Your Drinking Days.

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Say NO today if you’ve had some yesterday.

Stay Healthy.

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Fill your nights with physical activities like sports, jogging, gym, swimming, etc. Putting your time and body at work helps rid trigger moments.

Pick up an interest.

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Fill your nights by learning something new like cooking, ballroom dancing, learning a foreign language, playing the guitar. The point here is to keep your mind immersed in positive, engaging activities.

Kudzu helps.

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Go to your local Chinatown practitioner and ask for Kudzu, a traditional herb used to treat alcoholism and hangover in China since thousands of years ago. The root was used to prevent excessive consumption, while the flower detoxifies the liver and alleviate the symptoms afterwards. Even Harvard University has proven Kudzu effective.

I was afraid of constipation. Being a kid, I thought that there will be a day where I will die of constipation poisoning. I imagined poisonous gas traveling in my veins all over my body up to the brain. I didn’t really care about my condition until after university. I found 7 very useful and natural ways to treat constipation forever. I have not used laxatives since 1 year ago. Anyways, here are the 7 constipation relief ways to help improve your health. =)

Water



Drink 4.5L of water everyday. I have a 1.5L tupperware which I refill 3 times throughout the day. That should make sure that I meet the minimum requirements of my body’s daily water intake.

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Bulk-forming (fiber) laxatives pass through the body undigested. The fibers attract water to the intestine, absorb the water and swell to form a soft, bulky stool. The bulky mass stimulates the intestinal muscles and speeds the stool transit time through the colon. Lots of water is needed for it to work.

Fruits



Common fruits contain lotsa fiber. It doesn’t matter as long as it is moist and delicious to eat. Use these every day for desert or in between meal. Use more than normal to get rid of constipation.

Exercise



Regular exercise helps your digestive system stay active and healthy. The contraction and relaxation of the muscles helps the intestines to more effectively move stools through the digestive tract. You don’t need to become a great athlete. A 20- to 30-minute walk every day may help.

Vegetables



Raw vegetables are the same as fruits. They have lotsa fiber that adds bulk to the intestines and creates well-formed stools that are easier to pass.

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A hot cup of coffee in the afternoon works for me. Seriously. Although caffeine tend to dry out the digestive system, it is also a stimulant.

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Use a platform to sit in the natural toilet bowl position. When the body’s full weight is on the feet and the pelvis is suspended like a cradle, your thighs will compress abdominal cavity to produce a natural laxative effect.

Acrophobia – Fear Of Heights.

Acrophobes becomes anxious going to high places for the first time. Some may even experience panic attacks and lose control of themselves. Causes usually stem from trauma during childhood like falling from a high place.

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Getting over it takes work. One example is to move up level by level in a high rise building (eg:apartment block) until you feel comfortable. Like maybe today, go to level 1 and look down below. Tomorrow, level 2. The next day, level 3 and so on and so forth until you get to level 40 or something. You can also do it with any swimming pool’s high dive plank. Slowly walk towards the edge. Stop if you feel any fear but stay put. After admitting that the fear exists, move forward or come down. Return to the same spot where you left off and continue with the next step until the day you are right at the edge of the plank and jump. The moment you hit the pool and realize that you are okay is the moment you’ve conquered your fear of heights.

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Astraphobia – Fear of Thunder and Lightning.

Happens especially when you are alone. As soon as you see dark clouds you try to go home as soon as possible. Brush your teeth as soon as possible. Go to bed and cover yourself with blanket. Close your eyes and cover your your ears as hard as possible. Start sweating profusely and your heart beats abnormally fast.

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Knowledge is power as the more you know, the less afraid your are of it. First step of getting over astraphobia is to understand what and how lightning and thunder works. Thunder is just a sound. A loud sound. Lightning on the other hand is dangerous. Avoid open fields, beaches, lakes and swimming pools when it rains. Also, chances of you being struck by lightning in a given year is as low as 0.000001%.

Secondly, be around people when it happens, be it family or friends, or at a local coffee house, mall, etc. Makes things less daunting. Adopt a pet. Keep each other company and weather through the storm. The idea is to keep yourself occupied.

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Blattodephobia – Fear of Cockroaches.

Totally normal. Cockroaches are fast and sneaky. The American cockroach is one of the fastest insect in the world. Where it is warm and wet, there the roaches will be. Imagine bacteria from sewers and drains being carried all over the kitchen. As a result, they stink and they produce hundreds of other younglings from a single female.

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Understand for a fact that they are here to stay. And the solution is simple. The only way to fix this phobia is to control the nearby population with poison cockroach baits. They are cheap and easily found in supermarkets. Place them all over the kitchen, near rubbish bins, under the refrigerator, near drains, etc. Regularly changing baits every 3 months should keep your house cockroach free.

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Claustrophobia – Fear of Being Shut In Place.

Defined as fear of having no escape and being closed in small spaces or rooms. Common situations include elevators crowded to capacity, windowless rooms, and even tight-necked clothing. An average of 6% of the world suffers from this very anxiety disorder.

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The first step in getting over claustrophobia is to understand that your mind is fooling you into thinking that you are indeed in grave danger when you are in fact not. Panicking is a self perpetuating thing. The key is to address your feelings and be reasonably comfortable enough. If you are uncomfortable being seated in a restaurant corner table with friends and you have no wiggle room, then don’t put yourself there. Seat by the aisle. Same goes to airplanes, subway, buses, etc. Get the aisle seat.

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Then as you progress, make small concessions to your claustrophobia. Gradually expose yourself to it. Just try it for a couple of minutes everyday. Try a larger room, walk into it, check out your surroundings, mentally say “This room is safe. It has a well planned fire escape route (the room has windows and doors) and I’ll definitely make it out alive if a fire were to happen. There’s only furniture (and whatever else)”. Once you are comfortable, remember the good times you had in that room, or a nice story about something in that room. Close the door once you are comfortably aware that the room is as safe as it gets.

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Coulrophobia – Fear of Clowns.

Johnny Depp has this extremely common phobia too. Although a clown is an entertainment figure that is suppose to make us laugh with their antics and funniness, many children and adults are just plain freaked out about clowns. Mainly thanks to movies like Stephen King’s It, Saw and Chucky of Child’s Play.

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First thing coulrophobes have to understand is that movies and real life are two different things. It’s just your imagination playing tricks on you. Understand that it’s just a normal human being wearing make up in a colourful costume. Watching how clowns put on their make up and transform, step by step, reinforces the aforementioned notion that they are totally harmless.

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Watch videos of clowns entertaining crowds like what they normally do, not as villains in films. Knowing that clowns have a long history of skillfully entertaining others helps. Lastly, avoid any horror or crime movies that do not portray clowns in a good way and your perception of clowns will definitely be more positive.

America’s leading drugstore in sales, earnings, growth, same-store sales increases, prescription drug market share and prescription sales per store. Not only that, Walgreens has been kind and caring towards ‘special’ people. It’s really admirable of Walgreens. Watch the video.

Fortune : Global Most Admired Companies 2006
No.1 most admired food and drugstore company

Here’s a video of 4 women from a Florida treatment center telling their story of ‘dying to be thin’.

National Eating Disorder Information Centre
Astonishing eating disorder statistics

In 2006, according to the World Health Organization, at least 171 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes. Its incidence is increasing rapidly, and it is estimated that by the year 2030, this number will double.

The statistics above show that diabetes is becoming a worrying trend in the United States. A total of 20.8 million people in the United States have diabetes and the number is increasing. Once you’ve been diagnosed with diabetes, know that there is nothing in the world at the moment that can cure it. You can only control it. To give yourself power over it, you have to know everything there is to know about it.

Although there are 3 types of diabetes, all forms share the same characteristic of high blood sugar.

Type 1

is due to autoimmune destruction of the pancreatic beta cells which produce insulin that prevents high blood sugar.

Type 2

the pancreatic beta cells are working, but a huge portion of tissues in the body are insulin resistant.

Gestational

insulin resistance caused by pregnancy in women who have a family history of developing diabetes.

People with diabetes are 3 times more likely to experience complications compared to non-diabetics. Below are several of the most common complications faces by diabetics.

1. Heart disease and stroke account for 65 percent of deaths in people with diabetes.
2. High blood pressure is experienced by more than 7 in 10 diabetics.
3. Blindness from diabetics is the highest cause of blindness between adults of 20 to 74 years.
4. Kidney disease like kidney failure accounts for 44 percent of new cases in 2002.
5. Nervous system damage happens to about 65% of diabetics. Results of such damage include slow food digestion, carpal tunnel syndrome, impaired sensation in the feet and hands.
6. Amputations on nontraumatic lower-limbs are carried out on more than 60 percent of diabetics.
7. Dental diseases such as periodontal disease (loss of attachment between teeth and gums) happens to more than 3 in 10 diabetics
8. Complications of pregnancy will only happen to ignorant diabetics. Major birth defects will happen to 7% of them. Their life will be at risk if the baby grows excessively large during the third trimester.

Here’s an advice for people new to diabetes. Let time help overcome the disorder. If you take care of yourself you will be happier than you ever were. There are 4 basic things that diabetics ought to do, especially Type 2′s.

• Exercise daily. Go for morning and evening walks. If your legs have problems, swim. Join a local gym. Let the fees paid be a daily motivation to exercise. Check the fitness section of this blog.
• Eat healthily. Lower calories equals to lower blood glucose. Combine daily exercising and healthy eating, you’ll get weight loss. Know that ALMOST everyone with Type 2 is overweight. Check out the food / cooking section of this blog.
• Focus on what you want, and what you don’t want will fall away by itself. Stay relaxed, be content and stay happy.
• Prescriptions are what you don’t need. Independence and freedom is what you need. Remember, if you don’t take control of your own life, prescriptions will.

Asparagus

Use :

• Kidney problems.
• Dissolves uric acid deposits.
• Promotes urination

Preparation :

• Boil in water and drink.

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Basil Tea

Use :

• Colds, flu
• Cramps
• Bladder

Preparation :

• Add fresh herb or seeds to boiled water to make tea for migraines and bed time restlessness.
• Douche for yeast infections.
• Gargle and mouthwash to eliminates candida.
• Pregnant women should avoid medicinal use of basil.

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Black Pepper

Use:

• Take at first sign of any disease
• Pain relief from toothache
• Brings down a fever.

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Celery

Use :

• Sedative.
• Seed and stalk reduces hypertension.
• Celery seed tea for the kidneys as a cleanser.

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Chamomile flowers

Use:

• Fever and restlessness in children

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Cinnamon

Use :

• Diarrhea
• Dysentery
• General Indigestion
• Yeast infection
• Athlete’s foot
• Reduces cancer causing tendencies of many food additives.
• Cold

Preparation :

• Cinnamon ground or taken with milk is a good balance after a heavy meal or dessert
• Simmer sticks with cloves for 3 min, add 2 tsp. lemon juice, 2 tsp. honey, 2 tbs. whiskey as cold medication.
• Boil 8-10 sticks in 4 cups water, simmer 5 min, steep 45 min, then douche or apply to athlete’s foot.

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Cloves

Use:

• Toothache
• Nasuea
• Vomiting
• Sore gums
• Topical pain relief of arthritis
• Antiseptic mouthwash
• Alcohol craving suppressor

Preparation :

• Chew for toothache, nausea or vomiting.
• Use oil for pain relief for sore gums and toothache.
• Add clove oil to neutral oils for topical pain relief of arthritis.
• Small amounts of clove in a tea for nausea.
• 3 cloves in two cups of boiled water, steeped for 20 minutes, as an antiseptic and mouthwash.
• Former alcoholics can suck on one or two cloves when the craving strikes to curb the desire.

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Freshly Brewed Coffee

Use :

• Alleviate headaches
• Clean bowels
• Break mucus congestion

Preparation :

• Caffeine in coffee is used to alleviate headaches (particularly those caused by caffeine withdrawal)
• Coffee enemas with olive oil are used to cleanse the bowels and are one of the safest and most thoroughly cleansing enemas available.
• Hot black coffee sipped through a straw helps break up mucus congestion in the lungs.
• Caution and common sense must be used to avoid dependency.

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Garlic

Use :

• Chronic and acute bacterial colds and flus
• Bronchitis, asthma, whooping cough
• High and low blood pressure
• Removing parasites and infections
• Sexually transmitted diseases
• Hypoglycemia
• Diabetes
• Destroys intestinal parasites
• Reduces cholesterol
• Repels insects
• Reduces sting effects of insects and red ants

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Ginger

Use :

• Cold / Flu
• Suppressing cough
• Cramps
• Nausea
• Stiffness
• Detoxify meat
• Blood Thinner
• Ease bruises & sprains
• Stimulate delayed period
• Break up congestion and fever

Preparations :

• Ginger prepared in tea form is useful for cramps, nausea, thinning blood, as a substitute for coumadin, break up congestion and fever.
• Use externally for stiffness
• Add in cooking to detoxify meat, especially chicken.
• Boil 2/3 cup of freshly chopped root in 1 gallon water, wrapped in cheesecloth (or old nylon stocking) until the water is yellow. Then soak towel and lay on bruises and sprains while still hot, to ease them.
• Ginger is one of the few herbs that easily passes the blood/brain membrane and is used in conjunction with other herbs that are meant to have an effect on the mind.
• Pregnant women should avoid medicinal concentrations of ginger.

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Lemon

Use :

• Colds
• Cough
• Heartburn
• Bloating
• Belching
• Sorethroat

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Mint (Peppermint)

Use :

• Migraines
• Nervousness
• Stomach disorders
• Heartburn
• Abdominal cramps, stomachache
• Herpes

Preparation :

• Herpes sufferers can take 2 cups of tea a day to ease the symptoms when the virus is active.
• Mints are used to buffer the action of other herbs that have uncomfortable effects on the stomach and intestines.
• Can be used in any combination for flavor.

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Mustard

Use :

• Sprained backs
• Deep rattling coughs
• Lack of appetite
• Headache
• Cold
• Cough

Preparation :

• 1 ½cups of dry yellow mustard in a bathtub of water for sprained backs.
• Make a paste with water and apply to knee and elbow sprains till blisters appear!
• 1 tsp. each mustard and ginger powder mixed with 2 ½tbs. of olive oil for deep rattling coughs. Rub over chest and back and put on an old T-shirt (or cover with cloth diaper).

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Nutmeg and mace

Use :

• Gas
• Indigestion
• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Kidney problems

Preparation:

• Make a paste of powder with cold water and then add to boiled water. 1 tbs. 1/4 tbs of powdered nutmeg is enough to produce a floating euphoria for hours. Can cause erections for men during that time.
• Side effects are bone and muscle aches, burning eyes, sinus drainage, and limited diarrhea.

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Onion bulb

Use:

• Cold
• Cough
• Life prolonger
• Dressing for burns
• Bee and wasp stings
• Asthma

Preparation :

• Interviews with hundreds of people who lived to 100 plus all indicated a heavy intake of onions in the diet.
• Onion is an excellent dressing for burns.
• Crush sliced onions with a little bit of salt and apply to burns.
• Apply sliced onion to bee and wasp stings.
• For asthma, puree an onion, cover it with brandy and let sit overnight, strain it, filter it through a coffee filter, and refrigerate. Take 2 tbs. 20 minutes before expected onset or before going to bed.

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Parsley

Use :

• Purifier
• Halitosis
• Tumor inhibitor
• Kidney stones and other kidney related problems
• Painful urination
• Sexual stimulant

Preparation :

• Chew for halitosis.
• A few sprigs provide 2/3 the vitamin C of an orange, lots of vitamin A, and the important amino acid histidine, which is a tumor inhibitor.
• Parsley tea is good for kidney problems, painful urination, and kidney stones.
• One cup of parsley to 1 quart of water makes a strong tea. Two cups of parsley to 1 quart of water, steep an hour and drink warm, as an aphrodisiac. In Spain they have found that feeding parsley to sheep will bring them into heat at any time of year!

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Rosemary Tea

Use:

• Headaches
• Body aches
• Breath purifier
• Aid in digestion of fat
• Free radicals reducer
• Stress
• Headaches
• Muscular stiffness and pain

Preparation :

• Flower tea for the breath.
• Boil water with rosemary in it to make it safe to drink.
• Diuretic and liver aid, increases bile flow. Two handfuls of flowering tips into 2 cups of good brandy, soak 10 days, strain and seal. Mouthful twice daily.
• Oil of rosemary is a natural anti-oxidant, and stress reliever
• Sniff for headaches.
• Chop a double handful of twigs and put in a pint of olive oil for one week, and use as a muscle liniment.

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Spearmint

Use :

• Colds, flus
• Mild fever
• Antispasmodic
• Prevents vomiting
• Relieves stomach
• Intestinal gas
• Diaphoretic
• Reduces pain

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Tea

Use :

• Relieve migraines
• Dental plaque remover

Preparation :

• Caffeine relieves migraines.
• Tea drinkers suffer less hardening of the arteries than coffee drinkers.
• Black tea kills dental plaque.

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Vinegar

Use :

• Blood cleanser
• Arthritis cure
• Reduce inflammation

Preparation :

• Naturally brewed apple cider vinegar is one of the finest blood cleansers and arthritis cures known.
• Take 1 tbs. per day of equal parts vinegar and honey in water to taste to cleanse the blood and reduce inflammation from arthritis.
• Be sure to use naturally brewed vinegar, as the white cheap stuff in the grocery store is actually acetic acid, a petroleum by-product, and pretty well useless except as a window cleaner!

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Walnut Hulls, Black

Use :

• Athletes foot
• Fungal infections, parasites
• Abscesses
• Boils

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Watercress herb

Use :

• Cold / Flu
• Purifying blood
• Soft teeth / Weak bones

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However, perhaps because by it’s very nature sufferers of Social Anxiety are reluctant to talk about their problems or seek help, the condition is still not widely known amongst the general public, and was only recognized as a disorder in it’s own right as recently as 1980.

In it’s simplest terms social anxiety or ‘SA’ is a fear of people: of being around, having to interact with, being watched, criticized or judged negatively by, other human beings.

Common anxiety provoking social situations include:

• talking with people in authority
• dating and developing close relationships
• making a phone call or answering the phone
• interviewing
• attending and participating in class
• speaking with strangers
• meeting new people
• eating, drinking, or writing in public
• using public bathrooms
• driving
• shopping

Physical symptoms that may occur during, or in anticipation of, the situation include:

• rapid heartbeat
• sweating
• muscle tension
• upset stomach
• trembling
• shaky voice
• dry mouth
• blushing
• queasiness
• ticks
• hyper ventilation
• difficulty making eye contact

At a deeper level, sufferers often experience chronic insecurity about their relationships with others, hypersensitivity to criticism, and deep-rooted fears of being judged negatively, mocked, or rejected by others.

There are two forms of SA, performance social anxiety where these feelings only occur in a few specific situations such as public speaking, eating in public or dealing with authority figures, and generalized social anxiety which affects most, if not all areas of the sufferers life. The latter is the most common type, affecting around 70% of SA sufferers.

Social Anxiety
Fear of social situations