How to treat social phobia

The treatment of social phobia mainly refers to the patient’s fear and worry in the process of social interaction, accompanied by plant nervous dysfunction and avoidance symptoms, and clinical often uses psychotherapy and medication as the main treatment modality. Psychotherapy can choose exposure therapy, exposing the patient to social scenarios to predict whether the patient’s thoughts are correct, to reduce anxiety, fear to achieve the habituation process, in the exposure process need to prohibit avoidance behavior or related safety behavior to ensure that patients in the exposed social environment can experience anxiety, and ultimately relieve anxiety; social skills training is also very important treatment for patients with social phobia. Medication as an important treatment for social phobia, mainly using benzodiazepine anxiolytics and antidepressants for systemic treatment, such as the application of lorazepam, eszopiclone and other short-term small dose applications, generally taken for less than a month, antidepressants are mainly selected with anxiolytic effect of antidepressants, such as paroxetine, sertraline, fluoxetine, escitalopram and other drugs as the first line The drugs are used in the clinic and the therapeutic effect is confirmed.