Social Phobia in Children and Adolescents
Thursday, May 8th, 2008Social phobia — also known as social anxiety disorder — is an intense fear of becoming humiliated in social situations, specifically of embarrassing yourself in front of other people. It often runs in families and may be accompanied by depression or alcoholism. Social phobia often begins around early adolescence or even younger.”
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Fears: Ranked from childhood through parenthood
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008I found this article through sumbleupon and it seems that i will be addicted to this site. Here is a list of fears from childhood to parenthood. Knowing yourself starts with knowing fears and finding ways to cope with them. This list is a good start.
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How To Spot a Commitment Phobic
Saturday, March 1st, 2008 Due to negative experiences and beliefs (or sometimes a personality disorder), both sexes can suffer from commitment phobia, but more and more men seem to be suffering from this problem (or challenge).
Let’s look at some typical behaviours commitment phobic men display in relationships.
Commitment phobic men are tortured souls full of FEAR. [...]
Public Speaking Phobia
Saturday, March 1st, 2008There was this one time at band camp when I had to give this speech, but I wet my pants just before I stepped on stage. Uh, not really. The band camp thing is from “American Pie,” which I’m sure you remember. And although I’ve never been to band camp, I still have a few [...]
Fear of Spiders
Saturday, March 1st, 2008Arachnophobia is the scientific name for the fear of spiders. It is the most common example of an animal-based phobia and many people experience it mildly. For some people it has very intense effects. Different people suffer to different degrees and to those who do not suffer them phobias seem irrational, the afflicted person reacts [...]
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 [...]