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The study aimed to uncover the concepts of social anxiety and its relation to the mental health of individuals in adolescence. Which is one of the most dangerous stages that pass on the human because of what they develop in the minds of adolescents from the changes they feel and do not find an outlet to satisfy them or to achieve or to what they receive from the outside community of the lack of understanding and appreciation and differences in views. Adolescence is the most difficult stage of life and dealing with it is harder and harder for parents and many of the problems that people face are due to the factors of ignorance and negligence. In the teenager, he is changing in terms of membership, immature in terms of emotion, with limited experience. He wants everything, but he does not know what he wants. He thinks he knows everything, but he knows nothing. Therefore, it was necessary to find sound solutions to these problems, from parents, teachers and educators involved in the supervision of adolescents and care for their problems through research and study and evaluation of behavior, not through quick suggestions may cause the adolescent's psychological distress. The researcher presents the most important diseases affecting the adolescent's relationship with society, which is the social anxiety. Social anxiety is one of the mental disorders classified as an anxiety disorder, which is included in the tenth index of the classification of psychiatric and mental illness of the organization of the health. It is a widespread psychological disorder, which is chronic but treatable and appears in adolescents and occurs with depression. This study included explanations of the manifestations and causes of social anxiety and the extent of its association with mental health of adolescents, as suggested some of the solutions proposed to treat this type of anxiety. (Published abstract)