Social Anxiety Disorder & College Students

I have been seeing more SAD showing up in college students coming in to my private practice. Oftentimes the symptoms are less classic and well hidden by what appears to look like general incompetence or what most parents think is just a bad case of "laziness". If you are wondering if your young adult is suffering from this please visit the Anxiety Disorders American Association web site, www.adaa.org they have all the latest research and a self test. In some of there latest findings, "colleges and universities across the country are seeing a major increase in students requiring mental health services for anxiety disorders. Some students may have experienced symptoms before college that became worse upon leaving home, while others may be experiencing such symptoms for the first time (the college years are often when mental health problems such as anxiety disorders manifest themselves)."