social anxiety disorder
anxiety disorder associated with social situations
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Summary
social anxiety disorder is a class of disease[1]. It ranks in the top 0.051% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,301 views/month, #1 of 1,968).[2]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: anxiety disorder[3], phobia[4], mental disorder[5]
- Commons category: Social anxiety disorder[6]
- Said to be the same as: avoidant personality disorder[7]
- Symptoms and signs: social anxiety[8]
- Topic's main category: Category:Social anxiety disorder[9]
- Possible treatment: cognitive behavioral therapy[10], antidepressant[11]
- ICD-9-CM: 300.23[12]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C34927[13]
- Short name: SAD[14]
- Different from: seasonal affective disorder[15]
- Health specialty: psychiatry[16], clinical psychology[17], psychology[18]
- Drug or therapy used for treatment: gabapentin[19], paroxetine[20], sertraline[21], venlafaxine[22]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_11257[23], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:11257[24]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[25]
Why It Matters
social anxiety disorder has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] It is known by 85 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]