Because of this, it is helpful to have a tool that we can use to tell how anxious or worried we are. The tool we like to use is the anxiety scale! When you are not feeling anxious at all, your rating ...

Social anxiety disorder is marked by an intense fear ... on one's upbringing. The child may have had at least one parent who was impossible to please, so she kept moving the goalpost of success.

This might explain why some 70% of people with SAD are on the lower end of the socioeconomic scale and nearly 50% fail to complete high school. How common is social anxiety disorder? Figures vary ...