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Abdulaziz Alhajeri Ch s 151 Tu-Th 9.30 Informative Spe.docx
Abdulaziz Alhajeri
Ch s 151
Tu-Th 9.30
Informative Speech
June 17, 2014
Phobias
Can you imagine being so afraid of something that it becomes hard to breathe? That your anxiety is so high that you are completely frozen? What if you did not know when you would experience this level of fear which could happen at any time and you live your life trying to avoid it? This is what having a phobia can feel like. According to the National Institute of Health, more than 3.6 million Americans have a phobia of some sort and can live with fear like this every day. Upon learning about other people's phobias, some people can say that they sound irrational and don't make sense, but this is how a phobia can be characterized.
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition there are different types of phobias: social phobias, specific phobias and agoraphobia. Social phobias can be divided into two categories: generalized social phobia and specific social phobia. Generalized social phobia is better known as social anxiety disorder. According to Franklin Schneider 2006, approximately 12% of Americans have social anxiety disorder at some time in their life. This disorder can be explained as the fear of being judged or by doing something embarrassing in public. This disorder may cause sufferers to avoid social situations as much as possible. Specific social phobia is more targeted and can be experienced in social situations with specific triggers such as someone with glossophobia who fears public speaking. Glossophobia is thought to be the most common phobia in America.
The most well known types of phobias are those which fall under the category of specific phobias. These are phobias which cause the sufferer to go out of his or her way to avoid the thing that cause this fear altogether. Specific phobias themselves can be divided into 5 different types: Animal type (such as arachnophobia, a fear of spiders), natural environment type (such as claustrophobia, a fear of confined spaces), situational type (such as acrophobia, a fear of heights), blood/injection/injury type (such as necrophobia, a fear of death) and other. Specific phobias are very common among children between the ages of 7 and 13 and can often been seen as a normal part of the developmental process.
Agoraphpobia is the final kind of phobia noted by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition. Agoraphobia is the fear of open spaces which often leaves the sufferer house-bound for many years, unable to leave the walls of their home for fear of what lies outside of these walls. I have an aunt who suffers from this kind of phobia and rarely leaves her house even though she has nothing to do there and it makes her life very difficult. As we said before, these fears can be completely irrational to those who do not suffer from them.
But how can we diagnose a phobia? One fact is that we cannot diagnose a .
phobia.pptx total topic with description of
Phobia: persistent, irrational fear of specific objects, activities, or situations
Types of phobias
Specific: response to specific objects
Social: result of exposure to social situations or required performance
Agoraphobia: fear of being in places/situations from which escape is difficult or help unavailable
Panic attack
Sudden onset of extreme apprehension or fear of impending doom
Fear of losing one’s mind or having a heart attack
Panic disorder with agoraphobia
Panic attacks combined with agoraphobia
Agoraphobia is fear of being in places or situations from which escape is difficult or help unavailable
Feared places avoided, restricting one’s life
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Abdulaziz Alhajeri Ch s 151 Tu-Th 9.30 Informative Spe.docx
Abdulaziz Alhajeri
Ch s 151
Tu-Th 9.30
Informative Speech
June 17, 2014
Phobias
Can you imagine being so afraid of something that it becomes hard to breathe? That your anxiety is so high that you are completely frozen? What if you did not know when you would experience this level of fear which could happen at any time and you live your life trying to avoid it? This is what having a phobia can feel like. According to the National Institute of Health, more than 3.6 million Americans have a phobia of some sort and can live with fear like this every day. Upon learning about other people's phobias, some people can say that they sound irrational and don't make sense, but this is how a phobia can be characterized.
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition there are different types of phobias: social phobias, specific phobias and agoraphobia. Social phobias can be divided into two categories: generalized social phobia and specific social phobia. Generalized social phobia is better known as social anxiety disorder. According to Franklin Schneider 2006, approximately 12% of Americans have social anxiety disorder at some time in their life. This disorder can be explained as the fear of being judged or by doing something embarrassing in public. This disorder may cause sufferers to avoid social situations as much as possible. Specific social phobia is more targeted and can be experienced in social situations with specific triggers such as someone with glossophobia who fears public speaking. Glossophobia is thought to be the most common phobia in America.
The most well known types of phobias are those which fall under the category of specific phobias. These are phobias which cause the sufferer to go out of his or her way to avoid the thing that cause this fear altogether. Specific phobias themselves can be divided into 5 different types: Animal type (such as arachnophobia, a fear of spiders), natural environment type (such as claustrophobia, a fear of confined spaces), situational type (such as acrophobia, a fear of heights), blood/injection/injury type (such as necrophobia, a fear of death) and other. Specific phobias are very common among children between the ages of 7 and 13 and can often been seen as a normal part of the developmental process.
Agoraphpobia is the final kind of phobia noted by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition. Agoraphobia is the fear of open spaces which often leaves the sufferer house-bound for many years, unable to leave the walls of their home for fear of what lies outside of these walls. I have an aunt who suffers from this kind of phobia and rarely leaves her house even though she has nothing to do there and it makes her life very difficult. As we said before, these fears can be completely irrational to those who do not suffer from them.
But how can we diagnose a phobia? One fact is that we cannot diagnose a .
phobia.pptx total topic with description of
Phobia: persistent, irrational fear of specific objects, activities, or situations
Types of phobias
Specific: response to specific objects
Social: result of exposure to social situations or required performance
Agoraphobia: fear of being in places/situations from which escape is difficult or help unavailable
Panic attack
Sudden onset of extreme apprehension or fear of impending doom
Fear of losing one’s mind or having a heart attack
Panic disorder with agoraphobia
Panic attacks combined with agoraphobia
Agoraphobia is fear of being in places or situations from which escape is difficult or help unavailable
Feared places avoided, restricting one’s life
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The objective of this lesson
is to give you an overview
of psychological disorders
and approaches to their
treatment. It isn’t meant to
make you a clinical
psychologist. Two
points should be stressed
from the very beginning. First, the labels that have been applied to
mental disorders have changed over the years. For example, at one
time, excessive masturbation was considered pathological in males,
and it was sufficient to have a woman confined to an asylum.
Homosexuality was finally eliminated from the official manual
of mental disorders in only the past couple of decades.
Second, mental disorders and approaches to their treatment are, to
some extent, social products. As societies change over time, so do
ideas about mental disorders. For that matter, as society changes,
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different kinds of mental disorders are likely to become more common.
For example, eating disorders, which certainly have psychological
components, were all but unknown in the sixteenth century. Getting
enough to eat was a sufficient problem for most people. Conclusion:
One should apply labels to people with extreme caution. Just as
personalities vary, every disorder has commonalities and differences.
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- 1. Jennifer Liao Pd. 1AP Psych Final So Ask Psyduck. What exactly is… C L A U S T R O P H O B I A ?
- 2. For Psyduck…Claustrophia involves… 1.Fear of crowded places.
- 3. 2. Fear of Enclosed Spaces ….!!
- 4. Psyduck also experiences frequent panic attacks if stuck in 1. or 2.
- 5. 4. Nausea. His panic attacks usually consist of…
- 8. 7. Dry Mouth
- 9. 8.Heart Palpitations BADUMbadumBADUMbadumbADUMBADUM…
- 10. 9. Inability to Think Clearly
- 12. This is all because when Psyduck is in small or crowded rooms, he feels that the walls or the people are closing in on and smothering him. ….!!
- 13. Psyduck loves doors. When he is in uncomfortable situations, he tends to constantly focus his attention on the door or seek out places close to the door.
- 16. Before MRI scannings, 30% of the population expressed mild discomfort at lying in a confined space for extended periods of time, indicating extremely mild claustrophobia.How many people suffer from this disorder?
- 17. What other disorders are related to claustrophobia? Claustrophobia is strongly linked to other types of anxiety disorders, namely general anxiety disorder because all the patients suffer panic attacks and uncontrolled anxiety. Many people with GAD also suffer from claustrophobia, since a variety of sources can cause them anxiety.
- 21. Cognitive Behavior Therapy- The patient is encouraged to confront and change the attitudes which lead to their fear and phobic behavior.
- 22. Counter-Conditioning- form of systematic desensitization where the patient is taught specific relaxation techniques when experiencing anxiety. A phobic trigger is introduced slowly, until the patient can confront the source of their phobia without anxiety.
- 23. Flooding- type of exposure therapy where the patient is exposed to their phobia, confined spaces, to gain the realization that they have overcome their worst fears.