Fears And Phobias A Brief Overview
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Fears And Phobias A Brief Overview
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283
Summary:
Learn to live your life without the pressures of fear, anxiety or phobia. Uncover articles and
Keywords:
fears, phobias, anxiety, panic
Article Body:
Psychiatry identifies three different categories of phobia:
Agoraphobia is a fear of open spaces. It is also a fear of having a panic attack in a public p
Social Phobia is an irrational anxiety brought forth by exposure to certain social situations,
Specific Phobia is a persistent and irrational fear in response to some specific stimulus, whi
Approximately 1 in 23 people suffer from phobias. That´s nearly 4.25% of the population. There
Approximately 19.1 million American adults aged between 18 and 54 (13.3% of people in this age
5.2 million Americans (aged 18 to 54) or 3.7% of people in this age group have social phobia.
Approximately 3.2 million Americans have agoraphobia.
Almost 6.2 million US citizens have some sort of specific phobia.
All three types of phobia, social, agoraphobia and specific are likely to effect between 5 and
Females are more prone to irrational fears than males. Roughly twice as many women as men suff
In England in 2002-3, there were 310 hospital consultant episodes for phobic anxiety disorders
Only about 20% of specific phobias disappear on their own for an adult.
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Fears And Phobias A Brief Overview
Word Count:
283
Summary:
Learn to live your life without the pressures of fear, anxiety or phobia. Uncover articles and
Keywords:
fears, phobias, anxiety, panic
Article Body:
Psychiatry identifies three different categories of phobia:
Agoraphobia is a fear of open spaces. It is also a fear of having a panic attack in a public p
Social Phobia is an irrational anxiety brought forth by exposure to certain social situations,
Specific Phobia is a persistent and irrational fear in response to some specific stimulus, whi
Approximately 1 in 23 people suffer from phobias. That´s nearly 4.25% of the population. There
Approximately 19.1 million American adults aged between 18 and 54 (13.3% of people in this age
5.2 million Americans (aged 18 to 54) or 3.7% of people in this age group have social phobia.
Approximately 3.2 million Americans have agoraphobia.
Almost 6.2 million US citizens have some sort of specific phobia.
All three types of phobia, social, agoraphobia and specific are likely to effect between 5 and
Females are more prone to irrational fears than males. Roughly twice as many women as men suff
In England in 2002-3, there were 310 hospital consultant episodes for phobic anxiety disorders
Only about 20% of specific phobias disappear on their own for an adult.
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