Phobias
A phobia is a strong persistent fear of situations, objects, activities or persons. The main symptom is the unreasonable desire to avoid the feared subject. Psychologists classify most phobias into three categories: Social, Specific and Agoraphobia. Depending on the different types of phobias, there are forms of treatment that help patients to lose that excessive repulsion to the thing feared.
Social phobias have to do with fears involving other people or social situations such as performance anxiety or fears of public embarrassment. Specific phobias relates to fears to a single specific panic triggered by spiders, dogs, elevators, water, etc. And finally, Agoraphobia which is described as a generally fear of leaving home. But, it is not just a matter of classifying phobias. Quite the opposite, phobias vary in severity among individuals. Some only suffer only mild anxiety. Others suffer panic attacks without the chance to override their panic reaction.
Some therapists use virtual reality to desensitize patients to the feared entity. Others are helped by important doses of medications, even hypnosis. This last one can teach a person teach to be comfortable with the thing feared.Doctors are trying to help patients to re-educate their conscious mind to relax keeping a healthy reaction and losing the panic progressively
A phobia is a strong persistent fear of situations, objects, activities or persons. The main symptom is the unreasonable desire to avoid the feared subject. Psychologists classify most phobias into three categories: Social, Specific and Agoraphobia. Depending on the different types of phobias, there are forms of treatment that help patients to lose that excessive repulsion to the thing feared.
Social phobias have to do with fears involving other people or social situations such as performance anxiety or fears of public embarrassment. Specific phobias relates to fears to a single specific panic triggered by spiders, dogs, elevators, water, etc. And finally, Agoraphobia which is described as a generally fear of leaving home. But, it is not just a matter of classifying phobias. Quite the opposite, phobias vary in severity among individuals. Some only suffer only mild anxiety. Others suffer panic attacks without the chance to override their panic reaction.
Some therapists use virtual reality to desensitize patients to the feared entity. Others are helped by important doses of medications, even hypnosis. This last one can teach a person teach to be comfortable with the thing feared.Doctors are trying to help patients to re-educate their conscious mind to relax keeping a healthy reaction and losing the panic progressively
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