Aquaphobia Fear of Water | Isis N’tara Aidid Solomon | A paper looking into the causes, symptoms, and treatment for the fear of water. | | We’re all afraid of something in life whether that is a fear of spiders, fear of the ghosts, and even in some extreme instances a fear of pickles. One of the most common fears is Aquaphobia which is defined as a social phobia that is a persistent, unwarranted, and irrational fear of water. This fear is not to be confused with Hydrophobia which
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what they could be anxious about changes depending on the person. A person with anxiety shows signs of nervousness, rapid breathing, sweating, or trembling. While their internal symptoms may include, but are not limited to, powerlessness, sense of panic from false dangers, feeling fatigued, and having trouble concentrating on anything but what they are worried about. A common anxiety disorder called General Anxiety Disorder, or GAD, causes excessive and persistent worry, where the worry “is usually
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processing. Anxiety Sensitivity: Reiss – AS is one of 3 fundamental fears. The others include illness/injury sensitivity & fear of negative evaluation. Cognitive Model of social phobia: Clark & Wells (1995) Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia Issues with this disorder: controversy == 1. panic attacks and generalized anxiety are not qualitatively distinct forms of anxiety. 2. Agoraphobia is a major disability – why listed as secondary? McNally (1994): Agoraphobia is a separate and distinct
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United States suffer from some sort of common mental illness, such as depression and phobias. Studies have also shown that 2.6 percent of adults in the United States suffer from some sort of severe form of mental illness, such as schizophrenia, panic disorders, or bipolar disorders. Younger people also suffer from mental illnesses the same way that adults do. 14 to 20 percent of individuals under the age of eighteen suffer from a case of mental illness. Studies show that 9 to 13 percent of children
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(Elliott Ingersoll, 2016) Medications can control anxiety and/or panic attacks from and individual thinking about or being exposed to an object or situation they may fear. When working with a client that needs exposure therapy, the doctor might give the client Antidepressants, Bate Blockers, or Sedatives. Treatment depends on what phobia you are experiencing. There are three types: Agoraphobia: mainly when it's accompanied with a panic disorder, agoraphobia is typically treated with exposure therapy
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Agoraphobia Marissa Burton SOC 313 Shamika Smith February 18, 2013 Panic disorders are anxiety disorders, diagnosed in people who experience thoughts of intense fright or discomfort; they are described by panic attacks, episodes in which the individual has feelings of deep anxiety or terror, followed by a sense of imminent doom (Flavo, 2009). Some people avoid going into situations or places in which they have formerly had a panic attack in anticipation of it reoccurring again. These people have
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Chapter II Presentation of Data A. Definition of social anxiety disorder or social phobia was defined by different sources. 1. In 400 BC, Hippocrates described the overly shy person as someone who loves darkness as life and thinks every man observes hi. During the second edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSMII), social fears were described as a specific phobia of social situations or an excessive fear of being observed or scrutinized by others and in the third
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ANXIETY DISORDERS The term “anxiety” refers to a general state of dread or uneasiness that occurs in response to an imagined danger. Usually, it is characterized by nervousness, inability to relax, and concern about losing control. Physical symptoms include trembling, sweating, rapid heart rate, shortness of breath, and feelings of lightheadedness (Rathus, 2007). While everyone feels anxious at some point or another, it can turn into a problem for many people. If a person constantly feels anxious
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Public speaking phobia is an intense and irrational fear of experiencing judgment by others when speaking in front of public or being embarrassed or humiliated in such situations causing dread, panic, and avoidance.More accurately, it is not the scrutiny and negative judgments themselves but the speaker’s own emotional response to them; the feeling of shame, rejection or humiliation that causes intense fear in the speaker. Sufferers recognize that their fear is excessive or unreasonable but they
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pleasure) in the absence of a distinct sustaining cause. A person that has a panic disorder, based on the above definition, has a malady. Having a brain implant that will rid them of panic disorder is a treatment for the malady that they are suffering. There is a line between treatment and enhancement, however, because to treat the malady would be restoring them to “normal” functioning, which in this case, would be to eliminate panic disorder. I do not think there is anything wrong with treating this
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