 The way, you know, we are more, what's the word? Output driven nowadays, so like people judge you so much based on what you can achieve and all that. So there's so much pressure on everybody to, you know, achieve, achieve, achieve, career, career, career. You know, and that kind of pressure can easily predispose you to having one form of anxiety. It's fairly with the social phobia. Because that has to do with having a fear of embarrassment or scrutiny when you have to be involved in an activity where people are going to have the chance to actually scrutinise you or people have the chance to or make you feel embarrassed. So like having, so like what I'm doing today, it's, of course I'm excited because I'm going to now talk to, it's going to be on YouTube isn't it? So the whole what I'm going to watch, and I'm wondering what people are going to say about what I'm going to say are people actually going to say that, oh, he doesn't know what he's talking about. He looks like this, you know, I was worried about my hair not being brushed. People are going to say that, oh, you're going to be on TV and you're even like prepared properly. You don't look like you're supposed to be on TV, no makeup, whatever. It's okay for me to worry about those things. But when I get to the point where now that worry about those things make me decide that I'm not going to show up at all. Yeah, or afraid and illness so that I don't have to do it. I mean, it's not always easy, but so that's okay, it's sort of acceptable. But going to far, doing so much to make sure that you don't have to do it. For instance, taking some pills so I have loose tooth or so I, I don't know, cutting myself so I have an injury so that I don't have to do it. It's considered a disorder. So that's where it's a problem. So it's an abnormality that needs treatment. And that is typically how social anxiety disorder is. So I guess it's common. There's a muscle here. So I guess it's from there's a pressure of pressures of the expectations that people have of each other in this current world. The hustle and bustle work culture. Yeah. So what should one do when they are confronted with some of these things that drive them to literally want to do something to not show up? Yeah. What about these instances where, I mean, events or programs or parties or being around people? I may not necessarily have the social anxiety disorder of work relatedness or performance relatedness. But just people in general and having to be an active participant in that sense. How do you navigate such a thing? Yeah. So if it's such that it makes you, makes it difficult for you to do the things that you want to do. Like I mentioned earlier, then it's a problem. It's impairing your functioning. So you definitely need help. And so you need to seek mental help. Depending on, I mean, like I said, idealistic as I catch this, they talk to you. Sometimes the way you think of the problem might not be how it's exactly because it might actually be more severe than you think because you might not even realize it yourself. And so they go into all your problems, talk to you about how it is. Sometimes you might have to speak to people around you, for instance, your parents or the people you work with to see the gravity of their problem. And then when the diagnosis is made, depending on the severity, like I said, you need treatment and treatment involves medications and psychotherapy. So typically if it's mild, the psychiatrist might just say, go see the psychologist and they'll have a number of sessions with you, therapy sessions. And then they get to help you deal with those thoughts. Because the thing about mental illnesses is that it has to do with the mind. So it's about thoughts, feelings, emotions. And maybe we'll talk about that a bit later, but how these anxieties arise have a lot to do with thinking adaptive mechanisms or defense mechanisms and things like that. So the cyclists will go into those things and help you realize them and then show you ways of dealing with them better so that you don't have that kind of breakdown in those systems. And then you can actually face the situations that you previously wouldn't be able to face. So you basically need to see a psychiatrist, get diagnosed, get diagnosed, and then get a proper treatment, which involves psychotherapy and medications. For an anxieties order, typically the treatment medication-wise would take months. So that's what a lot of people typically are not happy with. The fact that you need to take medications for so long because nobody wants to take medications for a very long time. It's not like, I always say that it's not like malaria where you take medications for three days, maximum five days. You're better, you don't need a medication. Even when you are better after taking medications for a couple of weeks or months, you still need to be on the medications to prevent the illness from recurring. So typically, you have to be on medications for about six months to a year, and that depends on the response to the medication. And there are so many options when it comes to treatment. So if one medicine doesn't work for you, the psychiatrist will then have to change another one which might work for you. And then it goes on until you are better. And then you can go on to take it for about six months, depending on how things go. And then eventually reduce the doses gradually and then you stop. And then after you stop, sometimes you need psychotherapy to also support you to make you keep on and then ensure that you remain well. And then you can live your life normally again. So it sounds like a simple but... It's not really a simple.