Social anxiety is the 3rd largest mental health care problem in the world today with over 7% of the population suffering from social anxiety disorder right this very minute.

In public places such as shopping, meetings, or work, it appears to the social anxiety patients that everybody is judging, starring, and watching them even they consciously know that this is not true. It gets difficult for the social anxiety sufferers to relax and enjoy themselves in public places. As a matter of fact, they can never utterly relax when they are among other people.

Anxiety and fear is all patients of social anxiety focus on and because this disorder is so very painful, the sufferers find it much easier to avoid other people and stay away from social situations than doing opposite.

Not only social anxiety is the 3rd largest mental health care problem in the world, it is the 3rd largest psychological problem in the United States today as well. Fifteen million Americans get affected by this type of anxiety in any given year.

Social anxiety is not well understood by the general public or by mental health care and medical professionals such as counselors, psychiatrists, social workers, doctors, therapists, and psychologists. This fact is also a distinguishable factor of social anxiety from some other psychological problems.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy has been proved to be the only modality that works effectively as the treatment of social anxiety. Depending on the severity of the condition, social anxiety responds to comparatively short-term therapy.