Phobics

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Phobics

• Are you one of them ?

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What is a phobia?

• phobia (from Greek f?ß??, phobos, "fear") .
• is an inappropriate sense of anxiety or fear
  triggered by exposure to a specific object or
  situation.
• It is not an illness, not a mental disorder, Nor
  is it a lack of will-power, or 'moral fibre', or
  determination.

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Categories of Phobias
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Social phobia

• Social phobia occurs when there is an excessive
  fear of social situations ,ex. small groups of
  people at parties .
• People with social phobia have no confidence with
  people they don't know, and fear that strangers
  are being critical of them.
• fear that they will behave in an embarrassing
  way, such as blushing or shaking in public.

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Agoraphobia

• means a fear of open spaces, often because of
  worry about having a panic attack .
• People with agoraphobia may avoid being on
  bridges, busy streets or in crowded stores, so
  disabled. they literally will not leave their
  homes.
• often starts in late adolescence and early
  adulthood. It's more common in women than men.

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Specific Phobia

• These are very common in children. But some
  phobias carry on until adult life,
• animals (e.g. spiders, snakes, mice, birds and
  insects) .
• the natural world (e.g. storms, heights, weather)
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• blood, injections and injury .
• certain situations (enclosed spaces, lifts,
  planes) .

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Specific Phobia

• Sometimes, people can become phobic about
  catching illnesses or anything that puts them at
  risk of vomiting or choking.
• Specific phobias are more common in women, and
  they often begin in childhood.
• People who suffer from these phobias rarely have
  any other psychiatric or psychological problems

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Symptoms of Phobias

• If you have a phobia, you usually won't have any
  symptoms until you are faced with your feared
  situation
• or object (or, sometimes, if you think about, or
  see a picture of it).
• You may then develop symptoms of anxiety,
  including

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Symptoms of Phobias

• fast breathing
• being aware of a fast heart
• a choking sensation
• flushing
• sweating
• feeling faint

• numbness .
• tension headaches .
• dizziness
• "churning" of the stomach
• diarrhea

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Some Reasons of What Causes Phobias

• There are several different theories about why
  phobias develop.
• They do seem to run in families. But
• Young babies
• a stressful life event

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Treatment

• Self-help
• Talking therapies
• Behavioral therapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Flooding
• Medicines

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Resources

• American Psychiatric Association (APA) .
  www.HealthyMinds.org
• Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA)
  .www.adaa.org
• Mental Health America (formerly NMHA)
  www.mentalhealthamerica.net
• http//hcd2.bupa.co.uk/fact_sheets/html/phobias.ht
  ml.
• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
  www.nami.org

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Thanks.

• By
• Loloa Riad