The key to treatment is for the person to learn to control their anxiety and then accept that, even if they make mistakes because of anxiety, friends and colleagues will not judge them adversely as a person, only think that something must have been troubling them on the day. Social phobia is not uncommon and should be considered whenever someone says that “people make me anxious”. It is also not recognized because clinicians either confuse it with shyness, or judge the secondary depression or substance dependence to be the primary disorder. See also Social phobia, the fear of being judged negatively, is often not recognised because patients do not like to talk about their fears. Editions in Australia, Canada, China, Italy, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Pages 258-262 from the Management of Mental Disorders, published by World Health Organization, Sydney.
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