Question

Anna is terrified of speaking in public. She always finds an excuse to avoid public speaking or gets someone to speak for her. Once, Anna had a full-blown panic attack when her boss called on her unexpectedly to speak at a meeting. Anna is most likely exhibiting symptoms of______________.

Answer 1

Answer:

Social anxiety disorder

Explanation:

Social anxiety disorder is also called social phobia. In this disorder, an individual feels an intense fear when they have to deal with a crowd. They fear, anxiety, phobia of the crowd at an intense level. They feel that they will be judged, interpret negatively in the crowd.

These people were anxious about how they will act or perform in front of people. People who feel a strong fear of crowd have strong physical features such as heart attack, pulse rate increase, high heartbeat, palpitation, etc. These people have unreasonable high anxiety and fear.  

Anna is terrifying speaking in public. She always makes an excuse to avoid that particular situation. Just because of her intense fear she had a full-blown panic attack when she had called my boss to speak in meetings.