Foremost, phobias are an anxiety disorder that creates a perpetual, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or environment (Myers, 2012). When broken down, there are three distinct type of phobias that an individual can be diagnosed with. The first is specific phobia, which deals with an individual having a fear of a specific object or environment (Preda, 1994-2014). Hence, that said individual might display the symptoms of having a specific phobia towards a certain stimuli that…
Social Phobia: McKenzie Simpson Wiregrass Georgia Technical College Social Phobia Social phobia, also known as social anxiety, is a very common disorder that many people struggle to cope with. It is characterized by a constant fear of social situations and an expectation of judgment or rejection from their peers (NIH). It can be caused by numerous circumstances, many of which stem from childhood experiences. Social phobia has a very optimistic outlook due to the many treatments available…
we will focus on vasovagal fainting episodes induced by viewing injections and wounds in persons with Blood-Inject-Injury Type Specific (BIITS) phobia. Reports of fainting reactions to fear-related stimuli are less than 0.1% across all phobias but reported in 100% of BIITS phobia patients (H. Stephan Bracha, 2004). In physiological terms, a BIITS phobia vasovagal fainting response consists of two phases. First there is a brief spike in heart rate and blood pressure. This increase is immediately…
Traumatic events cause phobias. An article, written by W.J. Magee., called the Effects of negative life experiences on phobia onset, found that unpredictable and uncontrollable evets can understandably threaten or result in harm and can have an influence on the onset of agoraphobia—otherwise known as an anxiety disorder, this is based on the National Comorbidity Survey and several other studies. The theories involving the etiology, or the cause, of phobias offers to explain the impacts of…
A phobia is an anxiety disorder. A phobia causes one to have a fear of certain objects or a setting which results in avoidance and can aggravate anxiety. Arachnophobia is the phobia of spiders and can start as young as infancy in girls. (infant article) In the article, Does women’s greater fear of snakes and spiders originate in infancy shows a study that is done to see the reactions of boy and girl infants, where they are being shown pictures of happy and fear faces, along with pictures of…
Types of Phobia Everyone is afraid of something. Everyone encounter nervousness and anxiety in an unpredictable times. They find different and unnatural things frightening. These fears affect people starting from their childhood, because people cannot see the difference between real and unreal things when they are children. It is not a phobia when being scared of something like going into the water. This is because there is a real danger and there is a need for survival in the individual. Only…
specific phobias. However, the development and course of specific phobias can be traced to or determined by several different factors. Behavioral, cognitive, and social theories of learning and conditioning, psychodynamic models such as the psychoanalytic theory of Freud, physiological studies of the brain, family background and genetic predisposition, variations in sociocultural themes, and theories on trauma are some of the factors that can help explain the development of specific phobias.…
phenomena involving the specific behaviors affecting his quality of life. My client is currently suffering from severe phobias, which enhances his anxiety levels to the extreme of producing him panic attacks. Jackson, as he prefers to be called, has developed arachnophobia, acrophobia and verminophobia. Additionally, arachnophobia is the excessive fear to spiders, acrophobia is the phobia to heights and verminophobia, also known as mysophobia is the obsession to be free of germs or in other…
Imagine floating away into space with nothing to save, or being pulled into the Earth because the gravity is to strong. Sounds funny at first but many people all over the world have this phobia. This phobia is called Barophobia, the fear of gravity or the fear of falling. "....causes a person to feel helpless when faced with thoughts about the forces of gravity." according to a young woman who suffers from Barophobia. Irregular breathing, fast heartbeats, dread, panic, and anxiety just by…
Outline for Informative Speech Name: Darius Tan Jing Wei Tutorial Grp: W37 Date: 7th October 2016 Title: Informative Speech Topic chosen: Phobias Specific purpose: To inform my audience that phobias are wide ranging, different from fears, and there are specific methods of treatment to treat them. Central Idea: Phobias are an irrational fear, a kind of anxiety disorder in which the individual has a relentless dread of a situation, living creature, place or thing. They are…