Phobia In The Mayo Clinic

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Phobia is an uncontrollable anxiety disorder that overwhelms a person, even when all logic is to the contrary. The Mayo Clinic relates that a phobia is the tenacity to fear an object or a place and avoid it at almost any cost. The psychological disorder can cause tremendous stress and inhibit a person’s life. Hippocrates the first Greek physician, made the first written reference to a phobia, which he called Nicanor.
——————————————————————————————————————— Phobia’s can appear at the most inconvenient times. An article was released by NHS.uk concerning a women named Claire and her agoraphobia. For Claire, she developed agoraphobia at twenty six. Usually the attacks would occur, while going grocery shopping. Thus Claire began going to a different

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