Many of us have had a phase in our lives where we were shy. Some will always be like this. While it may be considered a disadvantage, it is common and not surprising. But what if we are so embarrassed around other people that we start avoiding them, being in public makes us nauseous, and we have enormous difficulty even just buying stone food? Furthermore, it makes us feel useless and totally destroys our social life... It is no longer simple shyness, although many would classify it as such. This problem, still little known, is called Social Anxiety Disorder. Hippocrates was apparently the first human to notice the symptoms of social anxiety, which was first called social phobia around 1900. It wasn't really known until 1985, when psychiatrist Michael Liebowitz and clinical psychologist Richard Heimberg conducted a research on this topic and made it more widely recognized. Furthermore, it is actually the third largest mental problem in the world: as the Kim Foundation claims, there are approximately 40 million people aged around 18 who suffer from this disorder. Psychologists research the causes of this phenomenon. I write about social anxiety disorder, because I am trying to show you how it can change someone and why it is extremely difficult to live with, to explain how we can understand the person who suffers from it, help them or recognize this disorder, in order to learn more about human psychology. That said, it may be helpful to start by describing the most common symptoms to know how to recognize social anxiety disorder. These are divided into three categories: “cognitive symptoms (what you think), physical symptoms (what you feel) and behavioral symptoms (what you do)” (Cuncic 1). First group...... half of the paper...... of the judgment. And, of course, they are always their own biggest critics: we notice even our smallest mistakes and hate ourselves for them.10. Kearney Christopher, “Social anxiety and social phobia in young people” Springer Science+BusinessMedia, 2005. This book closely studies all the factors of social phobia in young people. One of the first points is that introverts are much more likely to suffer from SAD than extroverts. A very interesting observation is that every patient has something called behavioral inhibition. It is used to describe fear, avoidance, shyness when coming into contact with new things or people and the way you act towards them. Most “prevalent social fears included: speaking in front of others or taking tests, public speaking, conversing with others, eating or drinking in public” (Kearney, 24). More girls than boys confessed to having these types of fears. Patrycja Kosińska