Hippocrates on Social Anxiety Disorder

Hippocrates of Kos (c. 460 BCE – c. 370 BCE)

Hippocrates of Kos (c. 460 BCE – c. 370 BCE)

I’m catching on that many Anxiety Disorder NOS diagnoses may be Social Phobia. To quote the Father of Medicine:

“(this man) … through bashfulness, suspicion, and timorousness, will not be seen abroad; loves darkness as life and cannot endure the light or to sit in lightsome places; his hat still in his eyes, he will neither see, nor be seen by his good will. He dare not come in company for fear he should be misused, disgraced, overshoot himself in gesture or speeches, or be sick; he thinks every man observes him.”

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