Phobia Child Abuse

Known as a mental disorder a phobia is a persistent fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to compelling desire to avoid it. Phobias tend to affect the way people live their lives, for example, their working and social environments, considering that they last for a very long time and are capable to cause intense psychological physical stress. It is considered today the most common mental and anxiety disorder in the United States (Matig Mavissakalian & David H. Barlow 1981 pp 2). There are many phobias such as: the fear of aging, fear of changing, fear of clowns, fear of getting fat, fear of being in closed spaces, etc.

Physical abuse is something millions of children and adolescents face every day, with the Children’s Bureau (2011) citing that physical abuse ranks as the second most common type of child maltreatment. However, it’s critical to consider some physical abuse goes unreported, as well as the fact that some states define physical

After a few years, my parents decided to take me away from that bad place.

My mother’s childhood environment was hugely dissimilar to my own. While my grandparents were largely removed in her life as a child, my mother and father were extremely supportive and present throughout my childhood. My aunt and mother described their home environment as chaotic and full of marital tension. In light of this, my mother’s response was to leave her home as often as she could. Being deemed the quiet child that rarely stood up for herself, my mother expressed how she felt during daily occasions like dinnertime:

Just simply going to therapy and accepting the fact that many get molested at a young age is what many families need to do instead of hiding it and letting the victim suffer. The fact that she had relationship problems led her to drug and alcohol abuse as an adult. Susanne Babbel mentions that,”Substance abuse is a common outcome of sexual abuse.” She also noted that researchers have estimated about a high percentage of people that were once sexually abused have had a history with some form of substance abuse. After going through something so traumatic as sexual abuse, people do drugs or drink to forget and move on, therapy is needed at that point because once a person makes drinking and smoking part of their lives it will

It was obvious to me that my mother had a serious problem. The drugs that she would take just to get through the day and the abusive childhood had played a role in the person that she had become. Her father had started the cycle of abuse and my mother let it continue turning her into the weak domineering, selfish evil mother that I never wanted or deserved.

As you walk the streets all around you there are individuals who may live their life in fear of the petrifying clowns that appear out of nowhere, the spine-chilling darkness that creeps in at dusk, or even the nauseating germs of others surrounding you, but what if you knew someone simply terrified of the outdoors. This may seem strange, but these individuals are constantly living in fear of the outside world away from their “Safe Zone”. From the moment they wake they fear the outside world, constantly panicking about what could happen if they venture to the outdoors. Agoraphobia affects between 5-12% of Americans (Misconceptions of Agoraphobia), and is essential to become aware of the true definition of Agoraphobia.

You wouldn’t know it just by looking at me, but I spent years of my life being abused by the father of my children. We married at the tender age of 15, while I was pregnant with our first child. At the time, I imagined us having a wonderful life together while raising a passel of kids. Instead, he physically and emotionally me and my children. Although I left him several times in the next few years before finally leaving in 2011, I was still often held hostage by his mind games, physical violence, and drama until the summer of 2016.

A phobia is a persistent and unreasonable fear of an object or situation which can initiate an anxiety response such as a panic attack or crying and freezing in children – the response is out of proportion to the threat posed. The sufferer is aware that their fear is unreasonable, causing distress, but also distinguishing the disorder from schizophrenia and psychosis. The anxiety response includes dizziness and difficulty breathing and is maladaptive as avoidance or distress in response to the feared situation or object interferes considerably with the individual’s daily routine. For those under 18, symptoms have to be present for at least 6 months and cannot be better explained by the criteria of another

One of the most traumatizing experiences in my life, was when I was nine years old. I was sitting in my room, then heard a really loud knocking on the door. I heard sirens coming from outside, so I looked out the window and saw nothing but flashing lights. I try to run into the living room to see what was going on, but my mom was trying to block the view. Then seeing Police flood into my house, jerking my older brother off of the cough. They put him into the back of the cruiser and took him to the Police Station. My parents confused, why he was being arrested. They found out that he had gotten into trouble with drugs and theft.

At the age of five, my mother sent me with my grandparents because my stepfather didn't like me. He would force me to rob money from my aunts just for he could have money for himself. If I didn't bring him money by the end of the day he would beat me, which lead to my mom to sending me with

Mom quitting her job and staying at home was a good thing for me because after working she found my father fast asleep on the bed while I on the floor wearing a dirty diaper or no diaper and clothing and my face stained with dried tears. The rationalization he would give is it was too hot to wear clothes. There were other times I was left me alone in the apartment, or worse, left with a heartless woman. For all of these reasons, she never went back to work. She would never again wonder if I was being neglected in her absence, and she would never again have to explain the marks of abuse that on her face. It’s not that the abuse stopped, but at least she didn’t have to explain. My mother never knew what kind of mood my father would be in, or what he would do next, so therefore we all lived with constant insecurity, stress, and fear. Making matters

In no particular order, I remember: being caught smoking on the baseball field, throwing a teacher against a locker, choking another and being put into custody by a officer. The last time I saw him was just after midnight in 2007 on New Year’s Day, when he threw me into an ambulance and escorted me to rehab. Unlocking the handcuffs, red rings pressed into my wrist, he made it a point to tell me I was bright, very intelligent, had so much potential. Much like the town in which we lived, I took his and everyone’s words as garbage. You say that to every kid. You don’t know me. This all made me feel more powerful, more in control, cunning and cool— what I’d always

Phobias are a type of a phsycological disorder that occurs in humans, it has several types, classifications and categories.As we all know, phobias are extreme types of fear, usually of unreasonable proportions and of the most ordinary of things. Some phobias are considered to be common phobias that can happen to people often. There are several common types of phobias such as spider phobia, snake phobia, flying phobia germ phobia. We can almost understand why and how a person could be afraid of heights or of crawling insects and spiders and other common types of phobia, there some types of phobias that are considered to be uncommon, and it is a totally different concept to become afraid, to an extreme degree, of

The 21st century is the age of achievement in every area of human life. But it is also an age that brings many risks, for example different phobias associated with contemporary times. Phobias are more serious than just fear or disgust. It is possible to mention a lot of types of them, because they are experiences of individual as well as all people. Though both fear and phobias have been with people for hundreds of years, people still do not know much about how it happens that some situations or objects cause extreme fear and panic. The purpose of the essay is to consider what do some mankind's phobias, especially focusing on phobias related to weather, result from.