Social Anxiety Disorder

Once there were people who were shy. Now there are people with ‘Social Anxiety Disorder’, and that can be treated with drugs. One way to tell if you have ‘Social Anxiety Disorder’ is, according to a pharma-sponsored advert, if you feel you are ‘allergic to people’. But maybe the people around you really are intolerable.

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