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Treatment usually includes a combination of psychotherapy and medication:

- Specific phobia: cognitive therapy may help behavior, especially a treatment process called desensitization or exposure therapy. This technique involves gradually increasing their exposure to the cause of fear, going at their own pace, under controlled conditions. As you expose the object is supposed to manage fear through relaxation, breath control and other strategies to reduce anxiety. For short-term treatment of phobias, your doctor may prescribe an anxiolytic (antianxiety). If you face the phobia only occasionally, as if afraid to fly, you can limit the use of drugs. Read the rest of this entry »

Duration

In children, specific phobias can be short-term problems disappear within a few months. In adults, approximately 80% of new phobias become chronic conditions (prolonged) that do not disappear without treatment.

Prevention

There is no way to prevent the onset of a phobia, however, if you have a phobia or other anxiety disorders, may reduce the anxiety level by avoiding stimulants such as caffeine (in coffee, tea and cola drinks ), chocolate and nicotine (in snuff). Read the rest of this entry »

Symptoms

The symptoms of phobias are:

- Excessive feelings of fear, unreasonable and persistent or anxiety triggered by an object, activity or situation, these feelings are irrational or disproportionate to the actual threat. For example, while anyone could fear a menacing dog and wild, most do not flee from the presence of a calm and relaxed animal on a leash.

- Physical symptoms related to anxiety, might include tremors, palpitations, sweating, shortness of breath, dizziness, nausea or other symptoms that reflect the response of “fight or flight” of the body to danger. Read the rest of this entry »

There are three main types of phobia:

Specific phobia (simple phobia): In this most common form of phobia, people fear specific animals (dogs, cats, spiders, snakes), people (clowns, dentists, doctors), environments (dark places, thunderstorms, high places) or situations (flying, riding a train or stay in an enclosed area). These are at least partly genetic (inherited) and partly run in families.

Social phobia (social anxiety disorder): people with social phobia fear social situations where they might be humiliated, embarrassed or judged by others, and become particularly anxious when strangers. Fear could be limited to performance, such as lecture, concert or business presentation. Or it could be generalized, hence avoiding the phobic part in many social settings, such as eating in public or use a public restroom. Social phobia runs in families, the people who were shy or lonely children or who had a history of unhappy or negative social experiences in childhood, seem more likely to have phobia. Read the rest of this entry »

A phobia is a persistent fear, excessive and unrealistic of an object, person, animal, activity or situation is a type of anxiety disorder. A person with a phobia is to avoid the triggers or causes the bears with great anxiety and distress.

Some phobias are very specific and limited. For example, a person may fear only spiders (arachnophobia) or cats (galeofobia). In this case, the person has a relatively free from anxiety but avoids the cause of your fear. Some phobias cause problems in various places and situations. For example, symptoms of acrophobia (fear of heights) may be triggered by looking through the window of an office building or driving on a high bridge. Read the rest of this entry »