Did you know that one of the largest mental health disorder in the United States is social anxiety? Not many people know this and the media does not pay any attention at all. However, we need to be aware of this mental disorder signs, so we can detect if any of our children have this problem.

What happens, is that most parents confuse social anxiety with shyness. You need to notice the behavior of your child at an early age, you need to see if he has any problem being around with people, if he likes to meet knew people, if he likes changes or not.

When children start to develop, some of them are very hyperactive and others not, if the child have negative feelings when is around new people and does not like any new activities, he might have a social anxiety problem.

As I said sometimes we think that is shyness and that he is just a little insecure and that can be the case, but if you notice his avoidance of people and social activities on a consistent basis then the problem could be anxiety.

Its important to take your child with an expert or psychotherapist that can make a proper diagnosis of your child insecurity. Sometimes its just a little lack of confidence and nothing more.

Experts say that almost every child or teenagers at certain age experience some kind of social anxiety as part of his development stages, but then they overcome it and integrate to the social life.

To be safe, you must take your child with a psychotherapist or doctor and let them make a diagnosis and follow up with the proper treatment, the sooner you treat them the easier it will be to overcome it.