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Anxiety Phobia - Fear from anxiety

     

Specific phobias, at least in children, can co-exist with some other anxiety disorders. Also, in order for a diagnosis of phobia to be made, a clinician must first eliminate these other anxiety disorders. Hence it is helpful at this point to include a brief description of these in order to compare and contrast them with phobias.

Anxiety Disorders and Phobias

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is an anxiety disorder in which the person is greatly troubled by intrusive and unwelcome thoughts, images, imagined events, urges or ideas. These thoughts arise spontaneously, or at least are not consciously summoned by the person, and cause a variety of unwelcome emotions ranging from anxiety to disgust. The person finds the intrusive thoughts bizarre, embarrassing, morbid or repugnant and, characteristically, carries out repeated ritualised behaviours in order to counteract them.

Post-traumatic stress disorder is caused, in the first instance, by experiencing and surviving a severely traumatic event or series of events. The experience evoked terror and feelings of helplessness, despair and pain. Often, the person's own life was in danger or he may have suffered severe injury and frequently, the event involved the death, injury and suffering of those around him. Afterwards, when the person has returned to a safe environment or has recovered physically, the experience comes back to 'haunt' him as a series of flashbacks and / or nightmares. The original, frightening and painful emotions are experienced over again and the person often additionally suffers from depression and feelings of guilt, especially if he has survived when others did not (survivor guilt).


Phobia of different kinds
Gynophobia
Glossophobia
Genophobia
Haphephobia
Heliophobia
Hemaphobia
Hexakosioihexe kontahexaphobia
Hippopotomonstro sesquippedaliophobia
Hydrophobia
Hypnophobia
Russophobia
Scopophobia
Paraskavedek atriaphobia
Ichthyophobia
Judeophobia
Lachanophobia
Lygophobia
Mysophobia
Monophobia
Musophobia
Necrophobia
Neophobia
Nyctophobia
Ophidiophobia
Ornithophobia
Osmophobia
Pyrophobia
Papaphobia
Pathophobia
Pediophobia
Peladophobia
Pentheraphobia
Phalacrophobia
Phasmophobia
Philophobia
Phobophobia
Photophobia
Phonophobia
Pogonophobia
Polyphobia
Selachophobia
Sinophobia
Taphephobi
Technophobia
Thanatophobia
Theophobia
Tocophobia
Toxiphobia
Triskaidekaphobia
Trypanophobia
Xanthophobia
Xenophobia
Zemmiphobia
Zoophobia


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