I'm suffering from social anxiety disorder from the last 5 years symptoms like excessive facial sweating during interaction and when nervous, loss of breathing, avoiding social gathering and friends, not able to face job interviews. There is a doctor who told me to take betacap for anxiety disorder but it not works great bcoz I also sweat a lot when I see people around me. I don't know what's wrong with me. So kindly help me please.

Mr. Kaartik GuptaPsychologist4yrs exp

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Dear Lybrate user, All the symptoms that you have mentioned are some of the ways in which anxiety is manifested physically, mentally and behaviourally in all of us. We all would have faced or experienced some of these at some point of time in our lives. So it is normal to experience this occasionally. If it happens very frequently and disturbs your functioning, then you need to seek from a Clinical Psychologist. Through psychotherapy, the therapist would assist you to deal with the anxiety more appropriately, handle such thoughts and situations more efficiently and be more confident while facing such situations. You need to know and understand one thing, i.e. Anxiety is harmless and it will settle down on its own in a few minutes. Face the situations that you have been avoiding, you can start from the one which seems slightly easier to you and then gradually follow the same approach for other such situations. Deep breathing and relaxation training will also help immensely. Best wishes.  

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