Talk:Social anxiety
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[edit] Separate article
Social anxiety is not a disease. Just as shyness is not a disease. Pathological social anxiety called social anxiety disorder is a disease. These are separate topics and hence belong to different articles. Mukadderat (talk) 21:10, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
I agree. But this page should really be dumped or completely re-written to reflect the general subject of social anxiety, as it currently looks like a poor version of the social anxiety disorder (aka social phobia) article. 122.57.136.187 (talk) 15:59, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- It was an inattentive edit. Reverted. A the contributor was explained in their talkk page as follws:
- Thank you for your contribution to Social anxiety article. Unfortunately I have to revert them. You are confusing the terms "social anxiety" and "social anxiety disorder"; the first one being an emotional state, the latter being a disease. The latter one (disease) is discussed in the article "social anxiety disorder". The difference between the two is similar to that of between fear and phobia. Mukadderat (talk) 17:35, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Disputed
Social anxiety is just another term for Social phobia. Having an article on social anxiety apart from social phobia makes about as much sense as one on weather anxiety for people who dislike being rained on or driving in snow. The article doesn't even make good sense. The first sentence describes Social phobia for example. It calls shyness and timidness social anxieties when in fact they're personality traits.Thunder2k (talk) 22:42, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
- The article is thoroughly based on references. Your criticism is invalid. The first sentence does not describe social phobia. If you cannot see the difference between fear and phobia, then you probably must support your opinions by references to respectable sources. Pleas explain why social anxiety is not personality trait. Mukadderat (talk) 02:58, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
I did not add anything of my head:
- First I split the original text in two already separated topics
- Then I updated the smaller article with references from expert books.
The original article already indicated clear distinction: it said: "the remainder of this article concerns the diagnosis of social anxiety disorder (social phobia) rather than social anxiety in general" (emphasis mine). Mukadderat (talk) 03:08, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
- That's where the mistake is being made. There is no social anxiety in general that is different from social anxiety disorder.
- The references cited are two old, obscure books.
- It says that "A psychopathological form of social anxiety is called "social anxiety disorder" or social phobia" but almost everyone with social phobia calls it social anxiety. Those two terms are rarely used except in clinical settings. This article just confuses people. Thunder2k (talk) 01:10, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
I have read the social anxiety page, read much of the social phobia page, and read this dispute twice, and I DO NOT see why the pages are separate. To start with, each page mentions the other in its first sentence. Also, neither explains why there is a distinction. Social Anxiety also lists its diagnosis criteria but discusses almost nothing else while Social Phobia seems to discuss everything but the criteria. It seems like they complement each other. They certainly, as they are written now, should not be separate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.250.225.138 (talk) 01:02, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
- The article was incorrectly replaced with content related to social anxiety disorder. Reverted. Mukadderat (talk) 17:35, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
- This article is still disputed. Thunder2k (talk) 21:51, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Resources Section
Hello, I have been the guy that has been posting links to my social anxiety chat room (www.socialanxietysupportchat.com) in the external links section. I realize that just posting the links without clearing it here first was the wrong way to go about things, so I apologize for that, I haven't ever edited a wiki page before. I want to plead my case though to have a resources section where links to chatrooms, discussion boards and myspace style sites for social anxiety can be posted. I think as a page involved in the wikipsychology project, it is important to include these links which will allow those afflicted to meet other similarly afflicted people to discuss experiences and gain further knowledge on the subject at hand. All of the sites that I'm thinking of are non profit and exist solely for the purpose of benefitting those with social anxiety / social phobia. You have to remember that this page is the first page that comes up on Google when people search for social anxiety / social phobia, so it is going to reach a lot of people so I think it's important to have this information available. Here are some of the sites I'm thinking of:
www.socialanxietysupportchat.com - this is my chat site. www.sahideout.com - this is another SA chat site. www.socialphobiaworld.com - a social anxiety / social phobia message board with over 10,000 users. www.anxietytribe.com - a myspace style profile site for those that suffer with anxiety disorders.
I want to hear peoples feedback on this, so please tell me what you think. Feel free to send me a private message to my talk page. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Riverafan42 (talk • contribs) 20:50, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
