Are social anxiety and shyness the same thing?

Question

If not explain why please.?

Also I cannot go to sleep at night what so ever but once the sun comes up im tired, could I be a vampire? lol

Answer 1

shyness is probably the older term for the same thing....i've about given up on sleeping all night. it doesn't matter how tired i am. at one or two in the morning i become wide awake. and yea, then come morning it's really really hard to stay awake. i'll grab a nap and then start the day, tired.

Answer 2

People who are shy are just quite in social situations and people with social anxiety take things to the extreme, they may not eat in public, talk to any strangers, avoid certain places out of social embarrassment.  Its a very extreme case of shyness.

Answer 3

No, Social Anxiety is more extreme than shyness.

Shyness is a personality trait. Social Anxiety is a mental illness.

And I do that exact same thing. Sometimes I'm not tired until 10 am. o_0

Answer 4

No. Social anxiety can form many mental illnesses such as Agoraphobia whereas shyness just refers to you being more introvert than others.

5% of the population suffer from Agoraphobia/social anxiety and a lot more than 5% are shy people.

I'm also like you, my bed time is 8am and I wake up at 5pm. It sucks, I can't go shoe shopping =(