Psychopharmacology And Mental Disorder-Phobia

Specific phobia, also known as simple phobia, is an anxiety disorder characterized by persistent and unreasonable fear of something or fear of a situation, wherein such fear is not proportionate to the danger or risk of that thing or situation that a person has the fear of. The five sub-type of specific phobia are the animal, natural environment, blood injection injury, situational and others. The most common specific phobia is the animal phobia. Examples of this animal phobia include fear of dogs, snakes, insects or mice. To prevent over diagnosis of specific phobia, DSM 5 have made several changes based on the over assessment of danger or erratic fear. To be considered as one of the specific phobias, it should meet the requirements

Phobias can be treated one of four ways. The most common is to faces the fear. This person would either get assistants from a behavioral therapist or go at it alone. This would be the most extreme way of getting over the phobia. Or a person can receive help from a behavioral therapist. The therapist may ask the patient to read up on the object or place, then look at photos of their fear. The patient might be asked to final go face their fear after all the research and preparation (Mayo Clinic). The treatment with medication is always an

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.

Though the experience of phobias is relatively common and their physical characteristics are generally well understood, there is no real consensus on the neurobiological basis of phobias. Instead, there are currently several different models and theories that work to try to understand how and why phobias occur in the human brain. Most hypotheses regarding phobias take a different approach, from biological to psychoanalytic to evolutionary. Is there one model that seems "less wrong" or more satisfying in our efforts to understand the biology of phobias? Using the various models, how do phobias seem to come about? How does thinking about phobias add to our understanding of the brain and behavior?

Phobias, an extreme fear of something, can best be understood through use of the psychodynamic perspective. Oftentimes, childhood traumas or exposure to the object of the fear at an early age can lead to the phobia to manifest itself when the patient is an adult.

Phobic disorders are objects, places, things that people develop a fear of that are not realistically dangerous. People often develop this usually from one past experience. Many people have arachnophobia, acrophobia, claustrophobia, and hydrophobia. There is some strange phobias that people develop like homophobia, fear of long words, fear of popping balloons and fear that somewhere a duck is watching you. I don’t know if it was from when I was a child but I fear that people are going to let go of their balloons or pop them, which is very strange. My friend has agoraphobia which greatly affected her social life, and only last year got over it to find a job and be able to shop by herself. I used to have to drag her into town when I needed to go and if she saw someone we knew she would hide, and would even run out of the store.

Introduction: Almost everyone has an irrational fear or two—of mice, for example, or your annual dental checkup. For most people, these fears are minor. But when fears become so severe that they cause tremendous anxiety and interfere with your normal life, they’re called phobias. A phobia is an intense fear of something that, in reality, poses little or no actual danger. Common phobias and fears include closed-in places, heights, highway driving, flying insects, snakes, and needles. However, we can develop phobias of virtually anything. Most phobias develop in childhood, but they can also develop in adults. If you

Phobia in clinical psychology context is an irrational fear of something or situation. The person suffering from phobia will try their best to avoid their phobia. In the extreme case that the person suffering from the phobia cannot avoid it, they will attempt to endure through the situation with a lot of distress ADDIN EN.CITE Swanson1986158(Swanson, 1986)15815817Swanson, Guy E.Phobias and Related Symptoms: Some Social SourcesSociological ForumSociological Forum103-130111986Springer08848971http://www.jstor.org/stable/684555( HYPERLINK l "_ENREF_2" o "Swanson, 1986 #158" Swanson, 1986). Phobias can cause difficulties in a person performing their daily activities.

A Phobia is a persistent, abnormal or irrational fear of a specific thing or situation that compels one to avoid the feared stimulus. Phobias are largely underreported. An estimated 6 million people

Phobia is an acquired fear whenever we sense danger or when we are confronted with something new or unknown that seems potentially dangerous. It can be social anxiety disorder which characterized by excessive fear or anxiety about one or more social situations or specific phobia that developed when a person has an encounter with an object or situation that involves or provokes fear. Phobias vary in severity among individuals. Although phobias are common, they do not necessarily cause significant disruption of everyday activities.

Of the many disorders presented in chapter 15, I find phobias the most interesting. Phobias are more than just a strong fear or dislike. A specific phobia is diagnosed when there is an uncontrollable, irrational, intense desire to avoid some object or situation. There are numerous types of phobias. A few common phobias are; agoraphobia, which is the avoidance of situations in which one will fear having a panic attack, especially a situation in which it is difficult to get help, and from which it difficult to escape. Social phobia, which refers to an intense fear of being watched and judged by others. It is visible as a fear of public appearances in which embarrassment or humiliation is possible, such as public speaking, eating, or performing.

The term phobias a greek word for "fear" that most people have living their daily lives. The fear is caused by a "particular object, activity, or situation." The fear that we all experience is normal. Most affected people that are upset with items more than they are with other items can cause the person

A phobia is an anxiety disorder, it is a fear of something that triggers someone to feel intimidated. Most phobias are triggered in early childhood by a past event. The phobias of spiders, the dark, germs and small spaces are the top most rated phobias in the world. Believe it or not, but some people have a fear of phobias. Its called Phobophobia and its the fear of phobias in general, or developing one. There are more than four hundred phobias in the world, and over half of the world's population is affected by them. Pretty much anything can be a phobia. For instance, there is a phobia called Anatidaephobia. It is, in my opinion, a weird fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you. To me, this makes no sense, but apparently .09 of the world's population has this phobia. To conclude, even the simplest things such as a pencil can be a phobia to someone around the world.

According to Depla, phobias are one of the most widely prevalent mental disorders on a lifetime basis. Only major depressive disorder and alcohol abuse have a higher lifetime prevalence in the surveys that were conducted. They also found a very high linkage between people suffering from a specific phobia to having other mental disorders as well, a percentage as high as 80%. Things bring forward the question, what exactly is a phobia?

So what is a phobia? Well, a phobia is basically an anxiety disorder. Most of the time it’s described as a persistent fear in which the affected person would go great distances to avoid such fear. Most people experience fear in their lifetime at least once. Fears and phobias appear in many shapes and sizes. Some people have rational fears like my friend Enoch’s fear of heights and others have irrational fears like my 10th grade Creative Writing teacher’s disgust of bananas.