2. Depression
Depression is common and
serious medical illness that
negatively affects, how you feel, the
way of think & how you act.
Phobia
Phobia is type of anxiety
disorder abnormal fear,
irrational fear, obsessive fear
etc.
3. It is a serious illness caused by changes in
brain chemistry.
4. Depression is a real illness
that impact the brain, it is a
serious condition. It’s also,
unfortunately, a common one.
Everyone has experienced
feeling of depression at one time
or another. Each person’s
experience of depression is
different as there wide variety of
symptoms.
Depression
7. Symptoms of Depression
• Sadness
• Anger
• Helpless
• Sleeping to little
• Over eating
• Turning to drug of Alcohol
8. Dealing with Depression
• Exercise
• Do things that make you laugh
• Living environment
• Set Realistic
• Weekly Schedule
• Professional Help
9. MAIN TYPE OF PHOBIA
• Specific phobia
Intense fear of a particular object that’s harmless
• Social Phobia
The fear of embarrassment in front of people
• Agoraphobia
Characterized as being in places or circumstances
that prove to be difficult or humiliating to escape
10. • Some believe genetics to play a role but most
people do not share phobia
• Life experiences is what most experts and
researchers believe to be the leading cause
behind the development of phobia
12. Phobia Classifications
Specific phobias are grouped under four main
types:-
– Animal
– Dogs spiders e.g
– Natural Environment
– Height water
– Blood injection-injury
– Situational
– Airplanes, elevators e.g
13. Figuring out phobia
• More than 10 million adults in the United States suffer
from some sort of phobia, according to the National
Institute of Mental Health.
• These exaggerated fears--whether of spiders, needles,
snakes, heights, social situations or even public spaces
can become so all-consuming that they interfere with
daily life.
• The good news is that over the past several decades,
psychologists and other researchers have developed
some effective behavioral and pharmacological
14. Research
• More than 30 years of research has examined the
neurological underpinnings of fear in laboratory rats.
• Now researchers are taking the next step they are using
neuroimaging techniques like positron-emission
tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI) to understand the brain circuitry that
underlies phobia and what happens in the brain during
treatment.
• They're finding that the amygdala--a small, almond-
shaped structure in the middle of the brain's temporal
lobes--is a key player, and that malfunctions of the
amygdala and associated brain structures may give rise to
many phobias.
• Still, researchers have yet to work out the details of how
