What actually causes phobia? Well, as reported on listofphobias. org Phobia is a negative emotional disorder, caused by an interaction between biological and environmental factors. Such factors include emotional trauma, unpleasant situation and negative experiences that often become imprinted in a person’s memory. These unpleasant memories are converted to fear after some repetitions with the same situations and consequently make the person become phobic. Treatment of phobias might be in form of psychotherapy referred to as cognitive behavior therapy. Cognitive behavior therapy may involve exposure to very thing that cause the phobia. Within this type of therapy, the individual gradually works up the strength to face the situations he or she fears most.

This allows the individual to become better skilled at coping with these anxiety inducing situations and to develop the confidence to face their fear. There is another type of treatment that involves the use of medication and therapy combine together. When these types of therapy are combines oftentimes the person that is suffering will experience relief very fast. Some of the negative points of medication are side effects and finding the right type of medication that will work for the individual. A good number of individual, suffer from one kind of phobia or another. Just as the saying that a certain man’s poison is another mans happiness, what may be phobia for me personally may not be for you and does not occur in children more than adults. Adults suffer from phobias too although childhood phobias occur most commonly between the ages of 5 and 9 and tend to fade as the child starts to grow older. By definition, phobia is an intense, uncontrollable, irrational and persistent fear of something that poses little or no actual danger.

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Social phobia disorder is quite common, in fact I bet just about every one at some stage in there lives have been anxious in a performance situation. That is normal BUT, if you are somebody that simply CAN NOT,  and Will NOT participate in any social gathering this when this disorder has taken over control. Finding out which order of  symptoms needs to be treated first is a matter of reading the whole article. This will surprise you.

Does Severe Anxiety Disorder Cause Social Phobia Disorder ,Or The Other Way Around?

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I know this is so stupid of me but I tried huffing spray glue enamel and injecting rubbing alcohol in myself. This has been a few months back. Recently, I was diagnosed with panic disorder after a bad mishap that occurred after smoking marijuana. Now, when ..I can’t breathe well, i’m sick or anything else happens i blame it on my past and think im dying. I hope no one else has made the mistakes I have but I was wondering if it caused anyone else to have regret ?

For the past year or two, I’ve suddenly experienced intense panic attacks. I’ve only had two spells that last a few days to a few weeks. I have depression and know that it is linked to anxiety, but I want to find the root of the problem so I can really began healing it. I just don’t know what could have caused it. Are there any starting points? Any red flags or triggers?

I was recently diagnosed with Panic Disorder w/Agoraphobia. I have been told a lot in recent years that I over react to things (get overly upset about something that’s not a bid deal, melodramatic, etc). I don’t see it, but I have to validate that almost everyone that interacts with me regularly feels that way. So maybe I am, and how do I stop? When someone hurts my feelings, I turn into the devils advocate and people that love me tell me my retaliation is beyond healthy… My partner tells me all the time that when we get into argument I really hurt his feelings, bad. But I know that when someone hurts my feelings, makes fun of me, or rejects me; I feel like it’s the end of the world and a reason to end whatever type or relationship that I have with the person imposing those feelings…

I am one of these people. White coat syndrome and panic attack with appts., then high bp and high heart rate. Understanding of this disorder is truely appreciated. Our bp & heart rate returns to normal after appts. Some drs. freak at the spikes, and hand out bp meds. when we do have normal readings. I will not let any dr. talk me into any meds for this disorder. I have taken meds before and got no where fast, with side effects and er visits for normal readings, no thanks. We know our bodies better than anyone else. I think a dr. who has experienced panic disorder could be the best help of all. We are a special breed, have high regard for others, kind, compassionate, and loving. Some feel its anxious personallity and we will have to learn to live with it. Reassureance helps us to cope. Its a disorder and yes, benzos help from time to time. We are not addicts, we are phobics. With a disorder. We are highly sensitive people, HSP, google it.

What would cause a beautiful, successful, confident woman to suddenly have bad anxiety to the point where she has bad panic attacks, fear of crowds and needs to seek a therapist?
@ Bananas

Thanks. But I’m not talking about myself. I’m talking about someone I care about.

I was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and the doctors after running a series of blood tests are convinced that this is the cause of my fatigue. To what extent can anxiety cause fatigue?

Kay soo i was feeling sick and I went to the doctor and the doctor said I have depersonalization from anxiety cause of stress but my head always feels hot and I get head aches that go away from time to time and now im worrieing that its a brain tumor or brain cancer and YES it is sure its depersonalization
But can someone answer this?

I have anxiety disorder and bipolar. I know there is some link between stress and irregulars periods but the drs won’t admit this. I am not sure why. It seems when I am having different phases my periods are different. When I am manic my periods are light; when I am depressed they are heavy. Is it my period causing this change of moods or is it my moods causing the change in my flows?