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Anxiety is common among adolescents, and every teenager goes through various phases.
A phase is temporary and usually harmless. But adolescents who suffer from social anxiety
disorder (SAD) experience fear, nervousness, and shyness and they start to avoid places, people,
and activities. Teenagers who suffer from social anxiety disorder (SAD) also suffer from
depression and in the long run, resort to substance abuse and even suicide. We aim to prove that
mentally sound adolescents do not suffer from social phobia. The title of my paper, Teenagers
and the Stigma of Social Phobia, is inspired by the research we made on social anxiety disorder.
I aim to make this paper as a background for our advocacy which will be a partial fulfilment in
Grade 9-Luke instructed by Mr. Archie Lim
start smoking and become tobacco dependent in the According to Pawlina et al. (2014), smoking per se process".
That is so because to some extent, "anxiety is is a disease and it is attributed to anxiety.
reduced when nicotine is introduced in the brain circuits and thus, euphoria is produced and other
sensations perceived as pleasant by the smoker". In regards to depression which co-occurs with
social anxiety disorder, Maritza Muzzi Cardozo Pawlina et al. (2014) also mentioned that
“Smoking could act as “self-medication” of feelings of sadness or negative mood. There is
evidence that the use of nicotine interferes with the neurochemical systems and fosters the neural
at highest risk for subsequent depression, they also experience a more malignant course of
depressive illness. This is manifested in more suicidal ideation and suicide attempts, and more
depressive symptoms during episodes as well as more frequent and or more protracted
depressive episodes”.
Healthy adolescents do not resort to substance abuse; they do not use illegal drugs, drink
alcohol, smoke tobacco (cigar), endure sleepless, restless nights, and suffer from abrupt weight
changes let alone consider the idea of committing suicide. We proved that a comorbidity between
social anxiety disorder (SAD) and depression exists and that both are attributed to adolescents
resorting to substance abuse and even suicidal thoughts - where depression, alone, is attributed
to sleeplessness, restlessness, and abrupt weight changes basing from L. Sher’s Depression and
Alcoholism - as scrutinized in greater depth by journals like Social Anxiety Disorder and Risk of
Depression and by published books like Triumph Over Shyness: Conquering Social Anxiety
Disorder. Hence, we conclude that indubitably mentally sound adolescents do not suffer from
social anxiety disorder (SAD) or social phobia which is a disease that produces other sorts of
diseases per se.
References
1. Murray B. Stein, MD; Martina Futsch, MagRerNat; Nina Müller, DiplPsych; Michael Höfler,
DiplStat; Roselind Lieb, PhD; Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, PhD. Social Anxiety Disorder and the
Risk of Depression. 2001.
2. John R. Walker; Murray B. Stein. Triumph Over Shyness: Conquering Social Anxiety
Disorder. 2003.