Depression And Social Depression: Social Anxiety And Depression

Social Anxiety and Depression Today, many Americans today suffer from either social anxiety disorder (SAD) and/or depression. In general, people who suffer with either one of these disorders actually have both, as social anxiety and depression are closely linked together. Allegedly, if someone has social anxiety disorder or social phobia, and does not receive treatment, they have the tendency to develop depression. There is a major factor between the two disorders. A person suffering with SAD is unlikely to attending social situations out of fear that they will not be liked by others. Someone suffering with depression avoids social situations because they feel hopeless and no longer care about themselves. Typically, SAD leads to the onset of the

A study was done by Erhan Ertekin analyzing the correlation between the two disorders. In his results he states “alexithymia and SAD, but our results also demonstrated that this relationship is much stronger when there is comorbid major depression. Our results may suggest that although SAD is associated with alexithymia, this association may be primarily attributed to the high comorbidity of mood disorders. Another implication of our findings is that alexithymia may be related to current depression in SAD rather than being a trait characteristic of patients with or without a history of past major depressive episodes.” (22 Ertekin,Erhan 2015). What Ertekin is stating here is that social anxiety disorder can lead to depression, but depression cannot lead to social anxiety disorder. Even though they both related to one another you cannot develop social anxiety disorder if you have depression, since that is how depression can start. It is important to know that social anxiety disorder is the start of major depression. This lowers their self-esteem and adds to their depression. This in turn becomes a downward