Social Anxiety Disorder Treatment in San Diego
Solara Mental Health provides the best social anxiety disorder treatment in San Diego. We’ve focused on creating a comfortable, caring environment for veterans to address their social anxiety, including their experiences, symptoms, and triggers. This environment begins with our clinicians, who provide expert, compassionate care to all veterans.
Our mixture of individual psychotherapy, group therapy, holistic therapies and psychiatric medicines provides veterans with comprehensive care. This helps them gain insight into the causes of their anxiety and devise a treatment plan that is individualized, specific and effective, helping veterans overcome the negative effects of social anxiety and lead healthy, happy lives.
Symptoms of Social Anxiety
Social anxiety disorder, which is a greater-than-normal fear of social situations, can feel inescapable. This particular kind of anxiety ingrains itself so deeply into your thoughts and feelings that it alters your behavior, ultimately changing the way you feel about and experience the world. Specific symptoms of social anxiety vary from individual to individual, but can include any number of the following:
- Extreme self-consciousness and nerves during social interactions
- Disproportionate worrying about future social interactions
- Physical symptoms of anxiety, including blushing, shaking, or sweating, and/or worry about manifesting these physical symptoms during a social interaction
- Excessive fear of being watched and/or judged, or of being humiliated
- Compulsively reviewing past social interactions, going over your behaviors, and feeling ashamed of your perceived social mistakes
- Minimizing social interactions by avoiding people as much as possible
Anxiety symptoms can contribute to powerful feelings of loneliness and isolation for veterans with social anxiety disorder. Such feelings can be intensely disruptive to day-to-day life, causing withdrawal from social situations, including work obligations, or even interactions with family and friends. But it is important to remember that seven percent of the population also has social anxiety, and you are never alone in your struggle with this mental disorder.
Treatment Methods
After identifying the symptoms of social anxiety, it is advised to source the help of a specialized clinician. Depending on each patient’s diagnosis and behaviour research, the most common methods for efficient recovery from social anxiety disorder are the following:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Usually known as psychotherapy or usually referred to as “talk therapy”, is the most common method to treat social anxiety. CBT is a therapeutic practice designed to help people with mental health disorders address their current struggles and negative thoughts – learning to accept the things and situations they cannot change and take control of the things they can.
Medication
Depending on the diagnosis and the social anxiety disorder symptoms, a healthcare provider might suggest the use of medication as a complementary step for the healing process. The dosage of this medication is assigned based on each patient’s needs and diagnosis and the severity of the mental illness.
Some of the most common medications used for treating social anxiety are antidepressants, beta-blockers, and benzodiazepines. It is not advised to self-medicate or abuse the following medications. It is usually provided to patients presenting significant distress and severe social anxiety.
Support Groups
People struggling with social anxiety sometimes find that a group environment for healing is helpful for them. Understanding they are not going through this process alone and sharing their own experiences has been proven to benefit the treatment. At Solara Mental Health, we provide safe environments and social settings for efficient group therapy.
Solara’s Social Anxiety Treatment for Veterans
Solara Mental Health in San Diego is focused on giving veterans a supportive and safe environment to recover from their social anxiety disorder. Our mental health treatment facility recognizes that each veteran will have their own personal needs, and we will customize their treatment plan to help with their specific diagnosis and symptoms.
Solara Mental Health is VA-contracted, which gives us the unique opportunity to help veterans with their mental health needs, including anxiety disorder treatment. As long as authorization is approved, we provide housing, transportation, and accommodations.
Healing from Social Anxiety at Solara
Solara Mental Health seeks to help veterans overcome this isolation. We understand that the unique nature of social anxiety can make it difficult to seek treatment, and as such, we have fostered a calm, comfortable, and understanding environment for veterans that promotes open conversation.
As experts in social anxiety treatment, our psychiatric facility’s clinicians know how to create therapeutic experiences that are conducive to progress. Our small group environment will minimize social intimidation while allowing veterans to practice anxiety management skills in a supportive, judgment-free environment. In turn, veterans leave our mental health treatment center with concrete methods for managing their social anxiety, allowing them to fully participate in social situations and lead fulfilling lives.
While our veterans make considerable and rapid improvements, social anxiety disorder is often a long-term condition. Through years of experience, our mental health treatment center has learned how to provide the entire spectrum of care for our veterans. From inpatient to outpatient, from transitional living to a long-term aftercare plan, our program has been designed to free our veterans from the clutches of social anxiety.
Contact us now to start the healing process.
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