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Anxiety disorders. How to recognize
Anxiety is a state of mind characterized by unpleasant sensations in the individual’s physical and mental that inspire a feeling akin to fear, from which the Anxiety is distinguished by the fact of not necessarily occur in response to a specific stimulus. The emergence of a state of anxiety accompanied by physical symptoms such as specific tachycardia, difficulty breathing, chest pain, tremors, dry mouth, abdominal pain, pallor or redness. That set the ‘Anxiety of itself is a physiological phenomenon, closely ingrained in human nature which plays important functions related to survival and adaptation, a moderate degree of anxiety in fact, by increasing the concentration, muscle tension, attention helps us to adapt to all life situations that require an effective response.
Anxiety begins to pose a problem when the state of activation it induces prolonged too much time or is manifested in a non-specific. In this case physiological anxiety becomes pathological and can cause discomfort to the person or be the basis for a real mental disorder. Possible to distinguish mild anxiety disorders Anxiety disorders easily solvable by proper where the anxiety rise to a series of behaviors, seemingly inexplicable and irrational, which sought to restrict it. In both cases it is appropriate to use a mental health professional (psychologist or psychiatrist).
Phobias Listing
Specific phobias are perhaps the best known among the anxiety disorders, it is because of irrational fear of avoidance of objects, animals, or situations defined. We distinguish four groups of specific phobias: the first group are phobias that have as their subject animals, such as Arachnophobia (phobia of spiders), the cinofobia (fear of dogs)’ s ornitofobia (fear of pigeons or birds in general), ailurofobia (fear of cats), the second group belong instead phobias regarding environmental situations: such as’ acrophobia (fear of heights), the brontofobia (fear of thunderstorms), agyrofobia (fear of crossing the street) , rupofobia (fear of dirt) in the third group are phobias of blood, injections or injury, and finally the fourth group, phobias directed to specific situations such as claustrophobia (fear of closed places), or the fear of driving or air travel (aviofobia), train, bus and so on. Generally the person with a specific phobia can handle the situation carefully avoiding the dreaded bump in the circumstances. In this case, however, is more appropriate to consult a specialist who put a proper diagnosis and indicate the most appropriate care.
We conclude this brief overview of phobias by listing a series of specific phobias that might be called “unusual” alliumfobia (fear of garlic), basifobia (fear of falling while standing or walking), calliginefobia (fear of having relations with women good), eritrofobia (fear of the color red), iatrofobia (fear of doctors), logofobia (afraid to say or hear certain words), pendofobia (fear of clocks), pogonofobia (fear of beards), xylofobia (fear of wooden objects or forests), automatonofobia (fear of objects that have human form), clinofobia (fear of beds), eisoptrofobia (fear of mirrors), falacrofobia (fear of baldness), leucofobia (fear of the color white), xantofobia ( fear of the color yellow), melofobia (fear of music), tafofobie (fear of being buried alive).
Phobias. The chameleon-like forms of anxiety
Phobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by an uncontrollable and irrational fear of an object or situation that leads a person to his avoidance. People with this type of noise are well aware that their fear is excessive and often unwarranted but nevertheless fail to change things. The anxiety is distinguished from phobic fear simply because of the presence of the pipeline to prevent the individual will not only lead to fear a particular situation or object, but also to “avoid” being implemented to this end, a whole set of behaviors and strategies that are likely to cause them a high degree of personal distress and relational.
Literature we find three distinct types of phobias: Agoraphobia, which may be more or less associated with panic disorder, specific phobia and social phobia. Agoraphobia is the fear of being left alone in public spaces from which escape is perceived impossible. When the ‘Agoraphobia is associated with panic attacks, a major factor for its occurrence is the fear of social consequences of having a panic attack in public. Typically the person agoraphobic fears the public places such as shops, trains, buses. Social phobia refers to a fear of speaking or performing in public for fear, irrational; to commit impulsive acts contrary to the common sense of decency and / or shame that may expose the person to negative judgments. Physiological anxiety commonly experienced by everyone before you speak or show themselves in a situation of “public” in these individuals becomes pathological to the point of preventing them from these types of performances.
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