Course assignment Topic: Phobias Prepared by: Accepted by F1-10 ------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents What is a phobia? pg 3 Types of phobias pg 3 Symptoms of phobias pg 5 Coping with phobias
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Discuss the relationship between stress, anxiety, habits and phobias and describe how you would treat these issues with hypnotherapy Introduction In this essay I will be looking at the relationship between stress, anxiety, habits and phobias and the ways that they may affect people. I will then outline ways in which I could use hypnotherapy to treat people who may have these issues. Stress, anxiety, habits and phobias are disorders that share a certain amount of common ground and can be related
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fearful situations, because we are all scared of something. I just happen to be scared of everything. When I was 10, I wiped my hands every time I touched someone because I believed their germs would infect me with a disastrous disease. I had my first panic attack when I was 13; I thought that I had stopped breathing for about 20 minutes, which would have been impressive if I was underwater, but I never learned to swim after the death of my sister’s friend-- she drowned in a lake. After my parents were
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event or situation". Generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder and agoraphobia, specific phobia, and social anxiety disorder are all group as anxiety disorder. In further detail, generalized anxiety disorder is characterized by intense, uncontrollable, unfocused, chronic, and continuous worry that is unproductive and distressing. The client may worry about real life situations such as dealing with a loss of a loved one. Keywords: anxiety, panic disorder, agoraphobia, specific phobia, social anxiety
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couple little anxiety attacks, but acquire the skill to handle these stressful moments a lot better every other time. But it did state that twenty percent of adolescents in the United States experience a anxiety disorder, like generalized anxiety or panic attacks. That can most of the time result from a mix of genetic factors and environmental influences. The article also stated that feeling a little anxiety is a normal emotional response to threatening situations. They probably wanted to make
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people have this fear? What makes their mind behave the way it does? Research has only just recently begun in this area of mental health, however, the little research scientists have gathered suggests that Agoraphobia develops after experiencing many panic attacks and that the main reason of its occurrence, according to Mayo Clinic is, “Biology— including health conditions and genetics — temperament, environmental stress and learning experiences.” Other factors known to increase the risk of Agoraphobia
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Obsessive compulsive behavior Nomophobia can be described traditionally as an anxiety or discomfort that manifests itself in a human being due to unavailability of a cellular phone, personal computer and in most recent times literally any virtual communication device including tablets. This is typically a social phobia that is brought about by the prevalent use of emerging technologies that cause changes in a person’s normal habits and behaviors (King, Valenca, & Nardi, 2012). Obsessive
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Glossophobia Using the cognitive-behavioral model of systematic desensitization, the phobia of Glossophobia will be approached with this model. It is common for people to have Glossophobia even actors, singers, business people have suffered from this phobia. Glossophobia affects three out of every four individuals (Glossophobia about, 2012) What is Glossophobia? Glossophobia is a fear of public speaking, speech, anxiety, and stage fright. When even the thought of having to present in front of
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Carolina Garcia Aguilar Psychological Disorders Panic disorder is a psychological disorder. The main features are recurrent events of panic abrupt, events of extreme fear, bordering on terror. The person not only experiences the recurrent events, but also a pounding heart, shortness of breath, faintness, and shaking. All these happen unexpectedly and are sometimes unexplainable. These recurrent events can play in the person’s head for up to 10-20 minutes. There is a relatively history of this psychological
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Panic Disorders affect people throughout the world in various countries although a major facet of panic disorders, panic attacks, are experienced in differing ways in separate cultures where the certain attack may include wailing, feeling like there is “worms crawling in [the patients] head” and so on(Kohn). With the varying ways that just a portion of a panic disorder is experienced, it is not surprising the amount of differing subsets of panic disorders there are and the range of ways to experience
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