Phobia

In fact, people fear, fear. These are called phobias, and they are extremely unhealthy. For example, my sister has arachnophobia; the fear of spiders. If she sees one she will call me to come kill it or she won’t be able to function. Phobia’s are not healthy fear because instead of functioning at a…

predict the source of the phobia or fear. Visual signs of fear, such as facial expressions, in the presence of the stimuli are seen as observational learning. Modeling produces our most complex behaviors. Children can learn and develop anxiety and the contributing traits through salient behaviors of their caregivers. Fredrikson, Annas, Fischer, and Wik (1996) used a mailed out questionnaire of true-false questions to determine the age and gender difference in different phobias. A visual analogue…

Palms sweating, knees trembling, senses numbing, heart racing almost as fast as your legs, and what else to call this chain of synchronized bodily responses other than fear. Fear, stereotypically, is simply a feeling, a reaction in which takes place in the brain when one is frightened. But what is it that causes this sensation called fear? Why does the brain react to certain circumstances in such a way? Fear is the brain's reaction to abnormality, not recognizing what it is seeing. Fear is…

as cynophobia. It is categorized as a specific phobia, under anxiety disorders. Since dogs are popular pets, cynophobia sufferers face a large number of anxiety triggers. Symptoms Cynophobes experience anxiety at nothing more than thinking of a dog. Thus they feel compelled to avoid a number of places where "man's best-friend" might be. Consequently, the social interactions of cynophobes become limited. As is the case with any other type of phobia, the physical manifestations include…

Depressive Disorders and Phobias: Social and Specific Depressive Disorder and Anxiety Disorder Based on a meta-analysis written in 2014, approximately one fifth of individuals experience symptoms of either an anxiety disorder or a depressive disorder (Steel et al., 2014). Within this population, “49% to 81% of persons with a depressive disorder have met diagnostic criteria for an anxiety disorder, and 47% to 88% of those with an anxiety disorder have met criteria for a depressive disorder…

Extra Credit 2: Therapy Video The video I decided to watch is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Specific Phobia of Heights by Dr. Michael Tompkins. In the video Michael Tompkins has the patient say what kind of phobia he had and how he came to find out about having a fear of heights. By asking the patient questions he was able to get enough information from him to go back to the beginning of the story of when he first found out about having a fear of heights, Further in the video he approaches…

people only fake them to get attention from others. They just fake an asthma attack and say they are having a panic attack”. No, Panic disorders, Generalized Anxiety disorder, Obsessive Compulsive disorder, Post-Traumatic stress disorder, and Specific Phobias are not fake; they are terrible mental DISORDERS that millions of people encounter everyday. It is more common than you think for people to say that a panic attack or anxiety attack are just those certain people wanting attention. But what…

norm; as it is seen as uniform in our society. As a result, I have simply had to come to terms with being seen as an outsider when it comes to what I am afraid of. At a young age many people begin to uncover some of their hidden fears. Often times phobias uproot from an emotional experience that occurred but we vaguely remember. Arachnophobia - better known as the fear of spiders - is a very common and understood fear. I can see how a creepy eight-legged…

As a result, it has been concluded that this phobia in adults is the aftereffects of unresolved childhood separation anxiety or traumatic death. Many patients diagnosed with agoraphobia report that their first episode happened after the death of a loved one. Another conclusion found was that diagnosed…

Story of Slavery or Misconception Through Fear According to Robert Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions there are eight basic emotions that the human body can show. These emotions are joy, sadness, trust, disgust, anticipation, surprise, anger, and fear. (Wilkins, Quora.com) One these basic emotions shows more of a presence in the Octavia Butler’s short story Bloodchild than any other. This basic emotion would be fear but not in the way most of us would think of it in a literary work. This…