Blood phobia

Are you scared of heights or tight, enclosed spaces? Of the wriggly legs of a spider? You might be frightened of these things, but people with phobias are actually impaired physically or psychologically by them. They experience extreme panic attacks, heart palpitations, dizziness, nausea, or even fainting! These are not the symptoms of a normal fright, but rather of a phobic, a person who has a phobia. Phobics avoid the object of their fear at all costs, to the point where it is unreasonably affecting their normal lives. Dr. R. Reid Wilson says: “I had a woman come in who was afraid of spiders, and it got to the point where she wouldn 't go out at night because she couldn 't see where they were.” Phobias that impair people and disrupt their…

Background Fear is a primal instinct that has plays a crucial role in the evolution and survival of every animal species. In our study, 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…

making it a phobia. Phobias are sometimes caused by traumatic events causes in childhood. There are three main types of phobias: agoraphobia, social phobia, and specific phobias. Agoraphobia is a fear of places where escape might not be easy or where help might not be available if something bad happens. It causes people with a phobia in this category to have anxiety about being in places or situations where it might be difficult or embarrassing to escape, such as being in an elevator. In severe…

Phobias: Fear of something. Wikipedia free dictionary says that phobia is a type of anxiety Disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation the affected persons will go, to great lengths to avoid, typically disproportional to the actual danger posed. My paper is on the treatment of phobias and the medicines that are part of the therapy treatment. A trusted friend or family member is always good to have when confronting the phobias. Web MD is who I quoted for most of…

to an increase in the amount of adrenaline from the sympathetic nervous system. This increased adrenaline speeds the heart and respiration rate, raises blood pressure, and diverts blood flow to the muscles. These physical reactions are used for escaping from serious danger however when the reactions cause anxiety in many normal everyday situations throughout, they may be detrimental, or harmful, to a normal lifestyle. An anxiety disorder is a disorder where feelings of fear alarm, or anxiety…

appear at the first sight. So what does fear means? It’s simply our self-defense reaction that helps us to avoid dangerous situations.Each time we have a situation that is classified like a dangerous one by our brain, we feel fear. The result of this reaction is the increased amount of adrenalin in our blood, heart start to beat harder and our body is ready to run from dangerous situation or for an impact with it. The fear is completely normal reaction in any case but, we might know how to…

Phobia is defined as an overwhelming and irrational fear for an animal, thing or place; also it is described as a mechanism of defence before the torment that provokes the internal conflicts. The individual that develops a phobia has perceived a sense of danger in certain objects or situations. People with phobias do everything possible to avoid a perceived danger, which is much higher in their minds than in real life. It is believed that the model of classical conditioning studied by Pavlov has…

How do generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and phobias differ? This is a common question when exploring psychological disorders and the answer is: generalized anxiety disorder is where a person is unexplainably and consistently tense and uneasy while panic disorders cause panic attacks and sudden episodes of dread or fear, and phobias are irrational and intense fears that someone has. Anxiety can cause people to become distanced from the world. Two third of anxiety victims are women…

Phobias How common are phobias in individuals? What are different triggers that cause these phobias? Possibly the sight of an object or an animal. Approximately 4 to 5 percent of the US population has one or more significant phobias in a given year (Bresset, 2014). Phobias are very common in many individuals, but the causes are not always known. Most people do not know how to get over common phobias. However, we do not know what causes them, symptoms of phobias, or how to treat their phobias. …

A phobia is defined as an irrational fear of something that can sometimes pose little or no real danger. In this paper we will look further into what a phobia really is and the theories and experiments behind them. There have been many experiments behind phobias including one experiment conducted by John B. Watson known as The Little Albert Experiment. We will dig deeper into this experiment and others later in the paper. According to the National Institute of Mental Health more than 10 million…