Editing Selective mutism (section)

{{Short description|Anxiety disorder causing the inability to speak under certain circumstances}}
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'''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 serve as [[Trauma trigger|triggers]]. Selective mutism usually co-exists with [[social anxiety disorder]].<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Viana | first1 = A. G. | last2 = Beidel | first2 = D. C. | last3 = Rabian | first3 = B. | doi = 10.1016/j.cpr.2008.09.009 | title = Selective mutism: A review and integration of the last 15 years | journal = Clinical Psychology Review | volume = 29 | issue = 1 | pages = 57–67 | year = 2009 | pmid = 18986742 }}</ref> People with selective mutism stay silent even when the consequences of their silence include shame, social ostracism, or punishment.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/12/health/psychology/12mute.html|title=The Child Who Would Not Speak a Word|first=Harriet|last=Brown|date=12 April 2005|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref><!-- Treatment and epidemiology -->