Social anxiety is a disorder that affects how people feel or deal with the social situations. Commonly known as social phobia, people with this disorder are afflicted by excessive and irrational anxiety or fear in certain social situations or during interactions with other people. Besides seriously affecting one’s personality and general life skills by triggering increased self-consciousness and nervousness, social anxiety can lead to agoraphobia, depression or other mental illnesses, when left untreated. Read more →