Selective mutism
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selective-mutism-161-8491512
title:
Selective mutism
text:
Selective mutism (SM) is an anxiety disorder in which a person who is otherwise capable of speech becomes unable to speak when exposed to specific situations, specific places, or to specific people, one or multiple of which serving as triggers. This is caused by the freeze response. Selective mutism usually co-exists with social anxiety disorder. People with selective mutism stay silent even when the consequences of their silence include shame, social ostracism, or punishment.
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encyclopedia
description:
Anxiety disorder causing the inability to speak under certain circumstances
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_mutism
date created:
2004-12-01T02:33:31Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T06:33:53Z
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