Have you ever heard of Emetophobia ( the fear of vomiting or being near someone who is vomiting), do you know anyone who has been succesfully treated and the method used? Exposure therapy is not an option.
sam s – you dont answer a question with another question, but to answer you, it is not an option because it does not work
Serious answers only please!

I have been diagnoised with generalized anxiety disorder and PTS what medications do they perscribe for treatment for these disorders?
I have also been diagnoised with bi polar stage 2 (guess the lowest one), So I’am concerned about medications… I took paxil once and saw white! Anger just came on me & I had to stop taking that one! Plus with the anxiety, I worry about everything! lol! Any ideas???? Thanks!

I’m taking a psychology course, and for a project I am to take a survey.
For it I chose Social Anxiety. I’d like to ask people with this disorder what type of occasion or childhood experience brought it on?
Thanks a bunch!

I have read plenty about how to deal with post traumatic stress. But how about the people who live with these folks? I am so exhausted, so confused, my self esteem is zero living and trying to cope with this person.
Pls, can I hear from someone else tonite for some support or guidance on how to take all this? The silence, the emotional abandonment, the lonliness, the depression. I feel like I have no life anymore but taking care of him.

My boyfriend and I have been together for a little over a year, but have been friends for about 2 years. So, I know him very well. He has always been a very “emotionally healthy” person. People always turn to him for advice, and for opinions because he is so smart and put together and has a trusted outlook on things. Recently he has been acting a little off, which confuses the mess out of me! He tells me that he has been getting this overwhelming anxiety that causes chest pains, racing heart beats, to the point where something just takes over and he doesn’t know what’s going on. Personally, I think he’s being a little bit of a hypochondriac (and this is ONLY because it’s like he’s trying to find some reason to go to the doctor, to me). I have A.D.D. and keeping my life and work organized is a huge struggle for me, so a few months ago I decided to try taking adderall, prescribed by my doctor. It’s like ever since then, he’s been trying to come up with something, and I really don’t understand why. He is 29 years old, has a great job, great family, good morals, does NO drugs/alcohol, awesome musician, and is my best friend. I believe that everybody has some anxiety, and I’m not trying to be insensitive towards his feelings either. But, like I’ve said he is so put together, and this is kind of like him showing weakness. He’s looked up his “symptoms” and has come up with Panic Disorder. How do you go from being completely sain (and that coming from him on numerous occasions) to having panic disorder? I DON’T think anything is wrong with him, but he’s practically obsessing over panic disorder now, and it is starting to come in between us. I don’t want him going and getting on Xanex or something like that which will zone him out, change his personality, or him possibly becoming an addict. I don’t know what the deal is but if anybody can relate, please help me out! Me and him have such a close relationship and tell each other everything, but this is making him a little cooky… and nobody would ever use that word to describe him! He’s maybe playing into the “symptoms” a little much. I’m so in love with him, but all of this is really not the “him” that I know. I don’t know where this is coming from. I really need some advice on what is going on. What should I do? Is there really actually something wrong? Is this more of an insecurity or what? I have told him how I feel about it, and that I don’t understand why now? How can you be so honestly secure about yourself, thoughts, and actions, to flipping a switch practically overnight, and then you have “panic disorder.”

I am a nurse and it is embarrasing when I have panic attacks on the job. I am supposed to be taking care of sick people not the other way around. Any suggestions?

i found a 20 session on torrent site i was wondering if it will work??

There are many signs and symptoms of agoraphobia, including some of the more classic ones. Only a qualified medical professional can truly make a proper diagnosis though.

Agoraphobia may be present with panic disorder, which is usually the case. On rare occasions, a person with agoraphobia may not have a panic disorder.

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Watching someone you love get sick is not an easy thing to do. While it takes a physical and emotional toll on the person going through it, those who love that person feel it too. It is a very hard thing to watch someone you are so close to go through something so hard.

While panic and anxiety are not considered to be a major illness, in many ways they are. The person afflicted has mild to severe attacks that may not seem like much to an outsider, but to the person going through it, they are horrible.

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For 2 years now i have been having Panic attacks at very often. It started out rarely, then got worse, until i was having them 3 times a week. I suspected it was something i ate or being over worked from the heat because i didn’t know what the symptoms of a panic attack were. Once i got so dizzy and had such an extreme hot flash I blacked-out for 3 minutes! I was always feeling detached from reality, hot, cold, sweaty, dizzy, an scared. But no one around me noticed, i was afraid i was crazy. Then it became less frequent it went down to a few times a month or only once a month. But a a few moths ago I woke up having severe hot and cold flashes, i was sweating severely and I thought i was dying or going insane, i couldn’t breathe, i though someone was smothering me, I began to think of this instant almost constantly, i was scared, “what if it happened again, people already think i’m crazy.” it was always there, that thought. From then on the attacks weren’t that bad, maybe it was hard to breath, heart palpitations, sweating, hot flashes. this didn’t bother me though, not that much, that fear was what scared me, I was so afraid i was losing my mind, or my life. i tried to convince myself i was being dramatic, but i couldn’t shake that thought. A week or two ago i had my worst attack yet. I was working on homework for my online psychology class (ironically, it was the panic disorder section) when my heart felt as if it were about to burst, next i was choking, and then hyperventilating, soon my fingers were tingling, and I was so scared. I told my self i was just tired that these things happen, but i couldn’t shake the feeling that i was dying, that they (i couldn’t even define who “they” were) would institutionalize me. “They” were after me. Soon i was convinced that I would kill myself. my friend, who i was talking to on chat, told me to “stop working on homework and get some good rest”. but I tried to tell her (my typing was illegible due to my shakiness) that I couldn’t leave the room, that if i got up I would keel over. But suddenly the urge to get up hit me, I had to leave the room before i did die. I just hit the power button without saving my homework or saying “GTG” I shakily ran to my room, but if i went to bed i knew i would die. then i was sobbing, absolutely bawling. The next few days all (and i mean all) i thought about was this event, and the more i thought about it the more i realized that this had been going on for longer then a few months.

I know that was long but i just don’t think i could say i have even panic attacks without input.