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Anxiety or Social Phobia · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So do you have social phobia or social anxiety in this video?
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  I'm talking about the exact differences between them all
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  that coming up. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  Asbury world. My name is Dan, I have autism,
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  ADHD, OCD, and dyslexia, and I make weekly videos on autism and
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  Just for you, from me, Let's get into it.
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  OK, guys, so social. Phobias or?
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  Social anxiety, How do you know the difference, right?
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  It's an interesting concept. So a lot of people.
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  Will have social phobias and a lot of people will have.
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  Social anxiety. But is there a difference?
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  And how do you know the difference?
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  So First off the bat, yes, there is a difference.
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  There's a difference between having a phobia and having
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  anxiety and just straight off the bat, right?
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  And there are many differences between them.
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  Now I've listed out three differences between them,
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  really. It will go through in this video
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  and the two conditions are completely separate.
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  Social phobia and social anxiety, two different things.
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  So they do ACT in different ways and they do impact the the
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  mental health of a person in different ways as well.
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  So I'm going to go through those and break them down Right now.
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  If you want to leave me a comment about anything to do
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  with this and you have something to say, pop it in a comment down
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  below. I read everyone.
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  That would be super awesome. OK guys, so the first one is a
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  phobia versus an anxiety. Now a phobia comes from a deep
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  rooted fear that is caused by trauma.
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  Right now, this could be historical or fantasy, you know,
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  so you could actually have had historical trauma which would
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  cause you to have a deep rooted phobia.
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  Or you could have like a fantasy, like you could have had
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  a dream about something that scared you or you could have
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  invented something in your head that would cause you to have
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  this phobia. Anxiety is in mental health
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  condition caused by a misguided reaction to an issue.
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  So mental health issues like anxiety is like it's having the
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  reaction you're getting to being somewhere is having a
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  miscommunication within the brain which is causing you to
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  have an anxiety about it rather than a relationship of
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  understanding with it. Whereas a social phobia would be
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  something that was caused by trauma or past trauma
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  beforehand. So you can see how an anxiety is
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  a more of a mental health condition but like a phobia is
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  more of a trauma based mental health condition.
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  So they are both mental health conditions, but phobia act from
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  a fear of something where anxiety gives you an anxious
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  nervous feeling because it can't understand or compute the kind
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  of chaos or the situation that one is presented in.
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  This is really, really interesting and I love talking
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  about this stuff. Now #2 is therapy.
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  So hypnosis therapy can work for social phobias along with kind
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  of medication and other bits and pieces, right?
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  But social anxiety will need stuff like CBT and other kind of
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  psychological kind of therapies to improve it.
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  Because, you know, when you're dealing with a phobia, you can,
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  you can set a phobia off with using things like, you know, for
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  instance the the hypnotherapy and that kind of stuff.
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  So you can offset, you know, phobia by doing different types
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  of therapy, especially hypnotherapy and talking and
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  counting therapy. Whereas anxiety, because it's a
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  mental health condition caused by misguided interactions from
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  issues more kind of like behavioral therapy and
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  psychotherapy will be used to improve that condition.
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  And I don't think you can ever really get away from the
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  anxiety. You can improve it, but you can
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  get away from a phobia, which I find really, really interesting.
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  OK, so #3 is fear versus reaction.
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  A social phobia is a genuine fear of a social place or a
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  social situation, right? But social anxiety is your
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  body's kind of fight or flight response to a situation that
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  makes you anxious. So when you have a genuine fear
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  or something, it causes you to like, just completely, just
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  you're absolutely terrified or something.
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  But when you have an anxiety, you're nervous because there's
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  something that's making you anxious about that situation.
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  So there is something to be said that a, you know, a fear versus
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  reaction kind of social phobias of fear and social anxiety is a
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  reaction. One is reaction based, the other
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  one is fear based. And I suppose having a fear of
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  something is a reaction to something, but there is a
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  difference between them. Now I suffer from a social
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  anxiety perspective just being the fact that I don't really
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  understand people's intentions. Socializing can be quite
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  difficult with people, especially new people I've
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  never, you know, met before. And also social settings like
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  shopping centers, shopping malls, all that kinds of stuff
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  can be very difficult for me. But in terms of social phobias,
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  I don't think I have a social phobia because I have nothing to
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  be scared of in terms of like a fear factor in a social
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  environment. That being said guys, if you
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  I'll see you next time guys. Peace.