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Social anxiety disorder is less of a SAD expression & more of a SHY expression. It is a chronic debilitating mental illness characterized by a marked & persistent anxious fear related to one or more social or performance situations involving reflection of negative facial expressions & exposure to familiar or unfamiliar situations with people followed with embarrassment & avoidance. The aim of the study that was completed at DIPR, DRDO is to study the concept and literature of social anxiety disorder. To understand application of social anxiety questionnaire for adults (saq-a30), test anxiety inventory for analysis of social anxiety among patients. To understand the continuum and relation of social anxiety with suicidal ideation attributes scale & beck's hopelessness scale. To understand the application of homeopathic treatment as intervention in social anxiety disorder using homeopathic repertoire / rubrics evaluation & case taking. To understand the psychological interventions including mindfulness and applied relaxation / yoga techniques and social skills training in social anxiety disorder. The test subjects/patients were obtained from various hospitals and polyclinics from district Gurugram. After following up with each case the inferences were drawn thus obtaining average scores from both test anxiety inventory and SAQ A30 including both pre and post treatment. They were given homeopathic medicines along with various psycho therapies including mindfulness log sheets. The prevalence ratio was found to have females suffering from social anxiety more as compared to males. The graphs obtained revealed patients need proper counselling over a long period of time especially to go for social skills training. Practicing mindfulness and applies relaxation techniques was found very much beneficial and have overall improved major stress level and quality of life.