phobia
Tuesday, January 7th, 2014
social phobia Cognitive Symptoms. In terms of broad assessment, social phobics report more negative thoughts and less positive thoughts than nonanxious controls before and during a social interaction. More specifically, Hartman found that the thoughts of social phobics fell into four factor analytically derived categories: general physiological discomfort and social inadequacy, concern with others’ awareness […]
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Monday, January 6th, 2014
People with social phobia report experiencing a number of somatic symptoms, including palpitations, sweating, tension, nausea, and blurred vision. Nevertheless, people with social phobia report greater concern over those symptoms that are visible to others such as trembling, shaking, blushing, twitching, and sweating. Physiological measures generally support these reports by demonstrating that social phobics have […]
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Saturday, January 4th, 2014
social phobia diagnosis Social phobia was first identified in the DSM system with the publication of DSM-III, although it had been described clinically by a number of authors well before this time. Social phobia is described as a fear and/or avoidance of situations involving the possibility of scrutiny by others. It is diagnosed reliably and […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
Specific phobia (illness phobia of HIV/Aids) Michael was a 23-year-old final-year student nurse who lived at home with his parents. He developed a terrifying fear of ‘catching HIV’ and dying of Aids. He had intrusive unwanted thoughts and images when at work, that somehow the virus had entered his skin (although there were no cuts […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
Steven is a 19-year-old student who was having increasing difficulty continuing with his degree. He had a lifelong history of shyness. However, this never effected his day-to-day functioning and although slightly anxious in situations, never panicked. His problems began when he started his degree course and had to move away from home. Within two weeks […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
John is a 27-year-old postman, married with three children and has a sixyear history of agoraphobia. John recalled having his first panic attack in a crowded shop five years earlier after returning from a two-week summer holiday. At the time of this first panic attack, it started with severe sweating, and then feeling dizzy, followed […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
Prevalence studies on phobias suggest that 1–2 per cent of the general population suffer from agoraphobia, 1–2 per cent from social phobia and 7 per cent from specific phobias (ibid.). Phobia onset varies; specific phobias tend to develop in childhood and may be an exaggerated response of normal childhood developmental fears. For example, it is […]
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Thursday, December 27th, 2012
A social phobia is an anxiety-provoking reaction that occurs when a person thinksabout meeting with others in public. It revolves around the person’s fear of beinglooked at by other people and generally relates to small gatherings as opposed tocrowds. The person can feel that others are watching their every move,thinking that people may be judging […]
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Thursday, December 27th, 2012
Case study: Specific phobia Oliver is 27 and works as a car mechanic. When Oliver was eight years old,he was playing football with his cousin in the back garden when the footballaccidentally went into the next-door-neighbour’s garden. Oliver climbed overthe fence to retrieve the football, but when he was climbing over the fencehe was attacked […]
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Thursday, December 27th, 2012
About 17% of people seen by psychiatrists will have a specific phobia, and theratio for this is equal between males and females. Conversely, Puri (2000) argues that it is more prevalent in the female populationand suggests that phobias usually commence either in childhood or early adultlife and, if left untreated, the person may experience years […]
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