pect of shyness and is provoked before a social situation. It involves a person wanting to make a good impression on a real or imagined audience but have doubt that they are capable of doing so. Although shyness includes this kind of anxiety, which is a kind of social stage fright, it also includes behavior, thought, and feelings during and after interactions. People often confuse shyness with introversion , but introverts are not necessarily shy, they have the conversation skills and self-esteem necessary for interacting successfully with others, but simply prefer being by themselves.(Stocker, p.96) They feel energized by solitude, and they do not become anxious or self- critical when they are with others. The performance anxiety, self- consciousness, and self-defeating thought so common among the shy may not occur in introverts. Shy people, on the other hand, want desperately for others to notice and accept them, but they seem to lack skills and the thoughts, feelings, and attitudes that could help them manage social interactions. This desire to be with other people is called sociability, and shyness influences how much a person can handle being in contact with others and not how much they actually want to be around them. Shyness is also not a social disease, such as social phobia or avoidant personality disorder. These mental illnesses interfere with daily life and people who suffer from them simply cannot be with others and are usually treated with medication and psychotherapy. Shyness affects a person's whole being, such as their mind, body, soul, and the way they see themselves. When a person is feeling shy, their pulse races and their hands become cold and clammy while their cheeks flame with embarrassment. Their minds are also working overtime because their thoughts are turning obsessively on how they are handling the current social interaction. Many great minds have attempted to understand the true reasons for...