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Solve adrenal fatigue.

  A college friend was blushing, sweaty, and shaking when a teacher asked her to speak in class. A few weeks before the presentation, he was anxious, agitated, and unable to sleep. I was still a student at the time, so I had no idea what he was going through. But I knew something was wrong. A few years ago I noticed a man at the airport waiting to leave the bathroom before using the urinal. He felt uncomfortable having someone watch him urinate. In retrospect, I can say (since I became a psychiatrist) that these two of them may have suffered from social phobia or social anxiety disorder (SAD) . I can only hope they are fine now, but the symptoms they were exhibiting at the time were consistent with this devastating disease . How bad is a social phobia or SAD? Social phobia or SAD is a type of anxiety disorder characterized by extreme fear, anxiety, or stress when exposed to social gatherings or when doing something in front of a group of people . Public speaking is the most comm...