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	Phobias
		Phobias can be described as a constant, overwhelming and disabling fear of exposure to specific objects, activities or situations, which represent little or no actual danger to the sufferer.
		Whilst specific phobias can cause anxiety and even panic to happen on exposure to them, they are not caused by generalized anxiety or an underlying anxiety disorder.
		Phobias are symptoms of an anxiety disorder and NOT stand-alone disorders.
	www.panic-anxiety.com /phobias (351 words)

	Specific Phobia DSM-IV Criteria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The diagnosis would be Delusional Disorder instead of Specific Phobia for an individual who avoids an elevator because of a conviction that it has been sabotaged and who does not recognize that this fear is excessive and unreasonable.
		Having one phobia of a specific subtype tends to increase the likelihood of having another phobia from within the same subtype (e.g., fear of cats and snakes).
		Although phobias are common in the general population, they rarely result in sufficient impairment or distress to warrant a diagnosis of Specific Phobia.
	anxiety.psy.ohio-state.edu /phobia-d.htm (1262 words)

	Specific (Simple) Phobia - Anxiety Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Specific Phobia is characterized by the excessive fear of an object or a situation, exposure to which causes an anxious response, such as a Panic Attack.
		Specific Phobia is diagnosed when an individual's fear interferes with their daily routine, employment (e.g., missing out on a promotion because of a fear of flying), social life (e.g., inability to go to crowded places), or if having the phobia is significantly distressful.
		Specific Phobia may have its onset in childhood, and is often brought on by a traumatic event; being bitten by a dog, for example, may bring about a fear of dogs.
	www.healthyplace.com /communities/anxiety/specific_phobia.asp (241 words)

	Specific phobia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Specific phobia" is a generic term for any kind of anxiety disorder that amounts to an unreasonable or irrational fear related to exposure to specific objects or situations.
		The fear or anxiety may be triggered both by the presence and the anticipation of the specific object or situation.
		Generally, phobias cause distress, impairment, and are excessive of an expected response to a particular situation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Specific_phobia (1155 words)

	Evidence Based Mental Health Information: PsychDirect
		In addition, an individual with a specific phobia is distressed about having the fear, or experiences significant interference in his or her day-to-day life because of the fear.
		Specific phobias are the only anxiety disorder for which psychological treatments are almost always considered to be the best approach to treatment.
		The average age of onset for height phobias is in the teens, whereas specific phobias of enclosed places often begin in early adulthood.
	www.psychdirect.com /anxiety/specphobia.htm (2244 words)

	What is a phobia? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In some cases, the sufferer may not be aware he/she even has a phobia, and may not be aware that this is the reason for the avoidance of certain situations, people, places, or things as a result of that phobia.
		Specific phobia is characterized by extreme fear of an object or situation that is not harmful under general conditions.
		People with specific phobias know that their fear is excessive, but are unable to overcome their emotion.
	phobiakingshomepage.netfirms.com /id4.htm (470 words)

	Specific Phobias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Some people with specific phobia get so upset they experience a panic attack that is triggered by their fears.
		Most adults and teens with specific phobia realize their fear is excessive or unreasonable (i.e., their sense of danger is out of proportion to the actual risk) but some children may not.
		Many people with specific phobias can trace their fears back to childhood but there are also some people with specific phobia who developed their fears as an adult (typically this occurs during early adulthood).
	www.anxietybc.com /disorders/SPECIFIC.html (1940 words)

	Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General - Chapter 4
		Like specific phobias, the fear is recognized by adults as excessive or unreasonable, but the dreaded social situation is avoided or is tolerated with great discomfort.
		Social phobias generally are associated with significant anticipatory anxiety for days or weeks before the dreaded event, which in turn may further handicap performance and heighten embarrassment.
		Social phobia typically begins in childhood or adolescence and, for many, it is associated with the traits of shyness and social inhibition (Kagan et al., 1988).
	www.surgeongeneral.gov /library/mentalhealth/chapter4/sec2.html (2716 words)

	Phobias:Specific Phobias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Specific phobias are the phobia category most typically referred to in the everyday use of the term “phobia.” Specific phobias are characterized by a persistent fear that is unreasonable and brought on by the presence or anticipation of a specific object or situation.
		Persons suffering from specific phobias are typically aware that their fear is excessive, but are unable to control their immediate and overwhelming anxiety (psychcentral.com).
		Treatment for specific phobias involves a type of cognitive-behavior therapy, either desensitization or exposure, in which patients are gradually exposed to what frightens them until their fear begins to fade (Webmd.com).
	iml.jou.ufl.edu /projects/Fall04/Lewis/specificphobia.html (305 words)

	Phobias A-Z and Phobia List
		It is an intensive, most of the time an unexplainable concern and a fear in certain specific situations or compared to certain specific objects which at the end carries out to the action to avoid with this situation or object.
		Phobias affects people of all the ages, all the long walks of the life, and in each place in woeld.
		Phobias forms the psychiatric disease commonest between the women of all the ages and is the second common disease between the men oldest of 25, according to NIMH statistic.
	www.phobia.depression-guide.com (400 words)

	Program for Anxiety & Traumatic Stress Studies: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
		Phobia is a term that refers to a group of symptoms brought on by feared objects or situations.
		Phobias are caused by a wide array of psychological and sometimes physiological factors.
		Specific Phobia As the name implies, people with a specific phobia generally have an irrational fear of specific objects or situations.
	www.patss.com /hea_inf/phobia.html (944 words)

	Phobia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A phobia is something a person fears to the point that they feel they have to change how they behave.
		Specific phobias can be treated, helping a person have a full and healthy life.
		Phobias are a type of anxiety disorder, the most common of all the mental disorders.
	singlemommy.org /services/mentalhealth/phobia.htm (1610 words)

	Phobia, Phobias Treatment Information, Phobia List, Chat Room, Forum, UK
		A specific phobia is an extreme fear of a specific object or situation that is out of proportion to the actual danger or threat.
		In addition, an individual with a specific phobia is distressed about having the fear, or experiences significant interference in his or her day-to-day life because of the fear.
		Specific phobias are the only anxiety disorder for which psychological treatments are almost always considered to be the best approach to treatment.
	www.phobics-awareness.org /phobia.htm (2541 words)

	Phobia - simple/specific
		A phobia is a persistent and irrational fear of a particular type of object, animal, activity or situation.
		Specific phobias are among the most common of all psychiatric disorders, affecting up to 10% of the population.
		Phobia clinics and group therapy are available in some areas to help people deal with common phobias, such as a fear of flying.
	pennhealth.com /ency/article/000956.htm (492 words)

	Attacking Anxiety and Depression: Specific Phobia
		Specific Phobias are described as unreasonable, excessive, and persistent anxiety caused by the presence, or anticipated presence, of a specific object, situation, or activity.
		Phobias can appear suddenly, in children, adolescents, or adults, and can sometimes be brought on by a traumatic event related to the specific phobia (i.e.
		As with all Anxiety Disorders, Specific Phobias are generally treated with medications, therapy, or a combination the two.
	www.stresscenter.com /resource/specific_phobia.htm (229 words)

	Specific Phobia-Find the Light with Natural Therapy
		Specific phobias affect an estimated 6.3 million adult Americans and are twice as common in women as in men.
		The causes of specific phobias are not well understood, though there is some evidence that these phobias may run in families.
		Specific phobias usually first appear during childhood or adolescence and tend to persist into adulthood.
	www.findthelight.net /anxiety/specific_phobia.htm (347 words)

	Phobia: NWHIC - WrongDiagnosis.com
		A specific phobia is a fear of a particular object or situation.
		Many people experience specific phobias, intense irrational fears of certain things or situations -- dogs, closed-in places, heights, escalators, tunnels, highway driving, water, flying, and injuries involving blood are a few of the more common ones.
		Adults with phobias realize their fears are irrational but often facing, or even thinking about facing, the feared object or situation brings on a panic attack or severe anxiety.
	www.wrongdiagnosis.com /artic/phobia_nwhic.htm (1081 words)

	Specific Phobia: Specific Phobia treatment- phobic disorder
		Adults with phobias recognize that their fear is excessive and unreasonable, but they are unable to control it.
		The exact cause of specific phobias is not known, but most appear to be associated with a traumatic experience or a learned reaction.
		A phobia is a fear which is caused by a specific object or situation.
	www.depression-guide.com /specific-phobia.htm (1251 words)

	Specific Phobias (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Everyone is afraid of something...but phobias are excessive and persistent fears that are specific to certain objects or situations.
		In certain cases, however, specific phobias can become impairing or individuals may go to excessive lengths to avoid exposure to the feared object or situation.
		This is particularly important, as individuals with a single Specific Phobia are likely to develop additional phobias--particularly within the same subtype.
	anxiety.psy.ohio-state.edu /specific.htm (394 words)

	Specific Phobia
		Specific Phobias are the fear of an object of situation and in relation to an Eating Disorder could be as specific as food or eating itself.
		What is particularly interesting in looking into specific phobias with food or eating is that the phobia itself may precipitate the Eating Disorder or vice versa.
		To permanently eliminate Social Phobia & Agoraphobia the root cause of these conditions should be addressed directly the root cause of anxiety and phobias is the inappropriate reaction of the anxiety switch in the brain.
	home.cogeco.ca /~ezine/phobia/specific-phobia.html (211 words)

	Welcome to Dual Diagnosis and Addiction Treatment
		A specific phobia can be described, not only as an extreme fear, but as an irrational one of a particular thing.
		Though individuals experiencing these phobias may be aware that the fear they feel is irrational, they often find that facing the said fear causes severe anxiety or may even cause a panic attack.
		Specific phobias tend to surface in childhood or adolescence and stay on unto adulthood.
	www.dual-diagnosis.net /Specific-Phobias (249 words)

	Specific phobias
		A specific phobia, formerly called a simple phobia, is a lasting and unreasonable fear caused by the presence or thought of a specific object or situation that usually poses little or no actual danger.
		Adults with a specific phobia recognize that the fear is excessive or unreasonable, yet are unable to overcome it.
		Children with a specific phobia may express their anxiety by crying, clinging to a parent or throwing a tantrum.
	www.webmd.com /anxiety-panic/specific-phobias (604 words)

	Specific Phobia
		A specific phobia is a fear of specific object (e.g., snakes) or activity (e.g., flying).
		There are specific phobias where it is impossible to point to a tramatic event that could account for the fear.
		The most common problem with this phobia is the avoidance of important medical procedures, such as blood tests or immunizations, because the person fears passing out in the doctor's office.
	www.acsu.buffalo.edu /~raulin/simphob.html (867 words)

	Specific phobia statistics
		All three types of phobia, social, agoraphobia and specific are likely to effect between 5 and 10 people in every 100.
		Phobia statistics suggest that roughly twice as many women as men suffer from panic disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, generalised anxiety disorder and specific phobia though about equal numbers of women and men have obsessive-compulsive disorder and social phobia.
		Only about 20% of specific phobias disappear on their own for an adult.
	www.phobias-help.com /phobia_statistics.html (273 words)

	Specific Phobia
		Specific Phobias are characterized by strong, irrational, involuntary fear reactions to a particular object, place or situation.
		When confronted with the feared situation, someone with a phobia may even have a panic attack - the abrupt onset of intense fear or terror in which individuals feel like they are losing control, unable to breathe or having a heart attack.
		Phobias can disrupt daily routines, limit work efficiency, reduce one's self-esteem and place a strain on relationships, since individuals will do whatever they can to avoid the uncomfortable and often terrifying feelings of phobic anxiety.
	www.adaa.org /GettingHelp/AnxietyDisorders/SpecificPhobia.asp (252 words)

	Phobias
		A social phobia common in Japan but almost nonexistent in the West is taijin kyofusho, an incapacitating fear of offending or harming others through one's own awkward social behavior or imagined physical defect (Kirmayer, 1991).
		The focus of cognition for a sufferer of this phobia is on the harm to others, not on embarrassment to the self as in social phobias in the West.
		Most psychologists believe that people with panic disorder develop their social phobia or agoraphobia because they are afraid of being incapacitated or embarrassed by a panic attack in a public place.
	www.phobialist.com /class.html (1027 words)

	Specific Phobias
		A specific phobia is a fear of a particular object or situation.
		Many people experience specific phobias, intense, irrational fears of certain things or situations- dogs, closed-in places, heights, escalators, tunnels, highway driving, water, flying, and injuries involving blood are a few of the more common ones.
		Adults with phobias realize their fears are irrational, but often facing, or even thinking about facing, the feared object or situation brings on a panic attack or severe anxiety.
	www.anxietypanic.com /specificphobia.html (415 words)

	Specific Phobia (Simple Phobia) Symptoms
		The formal diagnosis of specific phobia, or simple phobia, rests on these symptoms, which can be evaluated by psychiatrists and other mental health professionals.
		According to the DSM, "The essential feature of Specific Phobia is marked and persistent fear of clearly discernible, circumscribed objects or situations" (p.
		The following specific diagnostic criteria are reproduced verbatim (except for codings and page references) from the DSM-IV TR (where 'IV TR' indicates fourth edition, text revision), pages 449-450.
	counsellingresource.com /distress/anxiety-disorders/specific-phobia-symptoms.html (521 words)

	Childhood Specific Phobia Disorder
		Specific Phobia is a fear or anxiety over a specific object, place or situation.
		Parents state the fear is intense and children tend to avoid situations where they will be confronted with their 'phobia.' It is common for a child to have multiple specific phobias.
		If Psychotherapy is not successful and the specific phobia impacts negatively on a child's life, medication has been used to help lower the child's anxiety so psychotherapy can be done more productively.
	www.childhoodanxietynetwork.org /htdocs/htm/sp.htm (165 words)

	Phobia Menu
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	www.ahsuburbia.com /menu/phobia.htm (691 words)

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