We all experience anxiety in social situations, whether it's the flutter of nerves you feel before giving a presentation or ...

It's common for adolescents to feel nervous or shy around others. But how their parents treat them may help ease or worsen ...

Social anxiety disorder is marked by an intense fear of judgment, the strong and pervasive sense that most people are thinking poorly of you, and the equally intense urge to avoid most, if not all, ...

A new study shows that both mothers and fathers significantly shape their adolescent children’s social anxiety, but in different ways.

Anjali sat at the kitchen table in front of a blank piece of paper. She sat, and sat, and sat. Then she got up from the table and walked away. The unfinished task? A Valentine’s card for her ...

Cliched advice can be a hit or a miss, It depends on the context, how it's received, and when it is given. When we dissect it, we can often extract multiple meanings. Some of it, however, is plain bad ...

Be sure to scroll down after this story to find links to extensive Medscape Medical News coverage addressing mental health and medical professionals. The nightmares started in his second quarter of ...

Seattle-area therapists say anxiety is common early in the school year, and parents should be on the lookout for a variety of ...

No: Kierkegaard was referring to anxiety itself. He believed that understanding and using one’s anxiety was the great ...