1.   After much discussion and specialty consultation, it was determined that Jim suffered from a social phobia known as social anxiety disorder.

2.   Donny Osmond has social anxiety.

3.   Drinking alcohol is a form of self-medication, especially for people who struggle with social anxiety.

4.   Federal regulators this week have approved use of Paxil, a common treatment for depression and panic disorder, for social anxiety disorder, a debilitating condition. . . .

5.   For people affected with social anxiety, common everyday experiences can cause severe emotional distress.

6.   If you suffer with social anxiety, you may feel so hopeless and depressed that you doubt your life will ever get better.

7.   In the meantime, people with social anxiety disorder severely restrict their lives because of this debilitating fear of being embarrassed or humiliated in public.

8.   Indeed, a cottage industry of psychotherapy has sprouted to ease the social anxieties of the seriously shy.

9.   Indeed, like the fear of snakes, heights or deep water, social anxiety probably has its roots in natural selection.

10.   Lawns consume unconscionable amounts of energy and chemicals, while producing little more than landscape conformity and social anxiety.