Paul Latimer: Social anxiety disorder starts in childhood

Most people with social anxiety will report having been this way as long as they can remember. The childhood equivalent seems to be behavioural inhibition, which is characterized by an elevated fear response to both social and non-social novelty and social reticence by school age. Extreme childhood inhibition is relatively enduring and heritable. It may represent a marker for later Social Anxiety Disorder.

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