Archive for February, 2008
10 Best Ways To Relieve Stress
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008Finding ways to relieve stress are great ways to relieve anxiety. By relieving anxiety, one is able to head off anxiety attack symptoms and cure anxiety itself. Stress is the number one cause of anxiety attacks and by handling stress, one learns how to deal with panic attacks and find other anxiety solutions. Stress relieving [...]
Top 10 Bizarre Phobias
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008From Wikipedia: “A phobia is an irrational, persistent fear of certain situations, objects, activities, or persons. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive, unreasonable desire to avoid the feared subject. When the fear is beyond one’s control, or if the fear is interfering with daily life, then a diagnosis under one of the [...]
Phobias
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008A phobia is an intense fear reaction to a particular thing or a situation. With a phobia, the fear is out of proportion to the potential danger. But to the person with the phobia, the danger feels real because the fear is so very strong.
Phobias cause people to worry about, dread, feel upset by, and [...]
What to do about a phobia?
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008A phobia is an irrational fear that is driven by our emotions, which is why will-power, facts and reassurance tend to have little impact. Of course, this doesn?t stop us trying to intellectually ?understand it? so we examine the past and try to remember or figure out how the phobia developed in the belief that [...]
What is a phobia?
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008A phobia is a mainly irrational fear of something. It is not an illness. It is not a mental disorder. Nor is it a lack of will-power, or ‘moral fibre’, or determination.
A phobia can make one’s life miserable, cause embarrassment, and undermine self confidence and self esteem.
However you do not have to ‘learn to [...]