Specific phobia

There are three types of phobias: agoraphobia, social phobia, and specific phobias. People with agoraphobia fear that something extremely embarrassing will happen to them. ( This phobia tends to start between the ages of 15 and 35 and is twice as common in women as in men. Anxiety occurs when the person is in or thinks about being in a place where escape…

There are so many case studies on Phobia, and lots of people and children that are born with it or may come to discover that they have a disorder. It’s a fear one gets of something as a Bee or to something as into heights. We may think having a Phobia may not affect us bit it’s such a bigger deal then we may think its affects the life of one there relationship even there work averment. Phobia comes from genes of a family member that might have a phobia and we never know about it, it’s something…

I would diagnose Mr. Schackleford with PTSD, depression, and specific phobia of germs. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) requires that a trauma must be experienced, witnesses, or heard about in order for a patient to be diagnosed. Mr. Schackleford served in the Operation Iraqi Freedom conflict and experienced many traumatic situations including IEDs. The specific event that he believes to have had the greatest impression on him as a time with their troop was cleaning up after an event and…

whether the client’s presenting problems meet such criteria. (200) Regarding Samantha´s case and in comparison with required symptoms due to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), it can be assumed that she suffers from a specific anxiety (animal anxiety). Whereas this manual does not have expanded subcategories, the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) still further described the special fear of spiders as…

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…

Fear” by Richard A. Friedman, a contributor to the New York Times, focuses on the issues of anxieties, fear, panic attacks, and related feelings. To be specific, Friedman reflects on the possibility to control these negative feelings and eliminate them through medicines. The author starts with the explanation why people have panic attacks or phobias and how it brings a lot of inconvenience to everyday life. After this, Friedman claims that using of propranolol is an efficient way to remove…

Oehlberg 2008). Based on literature, a panic attack represents emergent reactions to prepare for impending or ongoing threats (Bouton et al., 2001). This is unlike illness phobias primarily because the interoceptive cue associated with the anticipatory anxiety is generally specific to a specific type of reaction (e.g., cardiac-type phobia reacting to heart related issues such as chest pain or tachycardia) whereas panic disorder…

potential danger and help keep us safe. However, for individuals with phobias - intense, irrational fears of specific objects or situations - fear is a consistently unpleasant part of their everyday lives. The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that approximately 19.2 million Americans over the age of 18 suffer from a specific phobia, and yet there is still an unfortunate stigma associated with anxiety disorders such as phobias. Inaccurate ideas and negative attitudes about anxiety…

marry a “dog” trainer and wants to get over her fear phobia so that she can live a happy life with her husband and be comfortable with her soon to be husbands dog training profession. Both classical and operant conditioning could account for Jackie developing this phobia Pick one and use it to explain why Jackie has remained fearful of dogs. Respondent conditioning in which Ivan Pavlov described as certain types of stimuli typically elicit specific types of bodily…

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…