Studing Phobias, Can you help?

Question

I have to answer these questions:
1. What causes a phobia?
2. What causes someone to have a phobia?
3. What are the signs of someone who has a phobia?
4. Who will diagnose Phobias and how will it be done?
5. What age group is more likely to be diagnosed with phobias?
6. What gender is diagnosed with more phobias?
7. What is the up to date statistic of phobias in the U.S.?
8. what are the treatment methods for phobias?
9. What are the most common Phobias?

Answer 1

1. negative experience or sights
2. same as #1
3. They react in a negative fashion towards phobia mentioned or seen.
4. Doctor, qusetions and records reactions
5. young children i suppose
6. males
7. ?
8. facing fear
9. fear of hieghts, i have that, fear of blood, fear of dark

Answer 2

You can look this up on Wikipedia but I'll just give you my opinion:


1. What causes a phobia?

Both interaction with the object of the fear and mere thinking about the object of the fear. Fear if it's strong enough can be attached to almost any incident

2. What causes someone to have a phobia?

Usually a sudden surprising incident with the object of the phobia (like a spider jumping on your head). You don't need to have been injured, but that would intensify the feeling. It is a classic fight or flight response. The 'flight' sensation is so strong it affects future encounters as well.

3. What are the signs of someone who has a phobia?

Unwillingness to engage in any activity that would expose them to their phobia, sometimes irrational. Some people with spider phobias can't even look at a picture of a spider, it's too scary.

4. Who will diagnose Phobias and how will it be done?

A psychologist or a psychiatrist can diagnose, but only a psychiatrist would be able to treat the fear chemically. A psychologist would also be able to make inroads with purely learning/cognitive-behavioural treatments

5. What age group is more likely to be diagnosed with phobias?

It can happen at any age, but is more likely to onset in younger people who aren't able to rationalise away their fears as much.

6. What gender is diagnosed with more phobias?

I don't think there is a stronger gender basis but women tend to be better at admitting they have a phobia

7. What is the up to date statistic of phobias in the U.S.?

No idea.

8. what are the treatment methods for phobias?

Medicine is a possibility but the first step would be exposure therapy - small steps of getting closer to the object of your fear to show that there is nothing to worry about, eg touching the picture of the spider, being in the same room as a spider. being with a metre of the spider etc, etc.

9. What are the most common Phobias?

Most common phobias are animals like spiders, natural fears like fear of the dark and situations like being in a small space

Answer 3

Causes

Inheritance of Social phobia refers to whether the condition is inherited from your parents or "runs" in families. The level of inheritance of a condition depends on how important genetics are to the disease. Strongly genetic diseases are usually inherited, partially genetic diseases are sometimes inherited, and non-genetic diseases are not inherited. For general information, see Introduction to Genetics.


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Inheritance of Social phobia: Animal studies are adding to the evidence that suggests social phobia can be inherited.

Triggers

If someone has a claustrophobia then an enclosed space. there is no one answer to q2. The triggers are as varied as the phobias.

Symptoms

The symptoms of phobia are:

Excessive, unreasonable, persistent feelings of fear or anxiety that are triggered by a particular object, activity or situation — The feelings are either irrational or out of proportion to any actual threat. For example, while anyone may be afraid of an unrestrained, menacing dog, it is not reasonable to run away from a calm, quiet animal on a leash.


Anxiety-related physical symptoms — These can include tremors, palpitations, sweating, shortness of breath, dizziness, nausea or other symptoms that reflect the body's "fight or flight" response to danger.


Avoidance of the object, activity or situation that triggers the phobia — Because people who have phobias recognize that their fears are unreasonable, they are often ashamed or embarrassed about their symptoms. To prevent anxiety symptoms or embarrassment, they avoid the triggers for the phobia.

DIAGNOSIS

In addition to the routine questions, a mental health professional will ask about your current symptoms, and your family's history, particularly whether other family members have had phobias. He or she will also ask about any experience or trauma that may have set off the phobia — for example, a dog attack leading to a fear of dogs.

You may find it helpful to discuss how you react — your thoughts, feelings and physical symptoms — when you are confronted with the thing you fear. Also, you should describe what you do to avoid fearful situations, and how the phobia affects your daily life, including your job and your personal relationships.

Your doctor will ask about depression and substance use because many people with phobias have these problems as well.

Typical Age

... sorry gotta go but this is a start.

Answer 4

1. It is generally accepted that phobias arise from a combination of external events and internal predispositions. Some phobias such as arachnophobia (fear of spiders) and ophidiphobia (fear of snakes) however, may arise more easily due to an evolutionary trait that conditioned humans to fear certain creatures that could cause them harm. In a famous experiment, Martin Seligman used classical conditioning to establish phobias of snakes and flowers. The results of the experiment showed that it took far fewer shocks to create an adverse response to a picture of a snake than to a picture of a flower, leading to the conclusion that certain objects may have a genetic predisposition to being associated with fear. Many specific phobias can be traced back to a specific triggering event, usually a traumatic experience at an early age. Social phobias and agoraphobia have more complex causes that are not entirely known at this time. It is believed that heredity, genetics, and brain chemistry combine with life-experiences to play a major role in the development of anxiety disorders and phobias.
2. Fear is what causes someone to have a phobia (see above).
3. Most psychologists and psychiatrists classify most phobias into three categories:

Social phobias - fears involving other people or social situations such as performance anxiety or fears of embarrassment by scrutiny of others, such as eating in public. The symptoms may extend to psychosomatic manifestation of physical problems. For example, sufferers of paruresis find it difficult or impossible to urinate in reduced levels of privacy. That goes beyond mere preference. If the condition triggers, the person physically cannot empty their bladder.
Specific phobias - fear of a single specific panic trigger such as spiders, dogs, elevators, water, flying, catching a specific illness, etc.

Agoraphobia - a generalized fear of leaving home or a small familiar 'safe' area, and of possible panic attacks that might follow. Agoraphobia is the only phobia regularly treated as a medical condition.

In Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV), social phobia, specific phobia, and agoraphobia are sub-groups of anxiety disorder.

Many of the specific phobias, such as fear of dogs, heights, spider bites and so forth, are extensions of fears that a lot of people have. People with these phobias specifically avoid the entity they fear.

Phobias vary in severity among individuals. Some individuals can simply avoid the subject of their fear and suffer only relatively mild anxiety over that fear. Others suffer fully-fledged panic attacks with all the associated disabling symptoms. Most individuals understand that they are suffering from an irrational fear, but are powerless to override their initial panic reaction.

4. Some therapists use virtual reality or imagery exercise to desensitize patients to the feared entity. These are parts of systematic desensitization therapy.

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can be beneficial. Cognitive behavioral therapy lets the patient understand the cycle of negative thought patterns, and ways to change these thought patterns. CBT may be conducted in a group setting. Gradual desensitization treatment and CBT are often successful, provided the patient is willing to endure some discomfort and to make a continuous effort over a long period of time.

Anti-anxiety or anti-depression medications can be of assistance in many cases. Benzodiazepines could be prescribed for short-term use.

These treatment options are not mutually exclusive. Often a therapist will suggest multiple treatments.

Answer 5

well its form by many things hun
its pasted down by family members belive it or not its true, and if something tragic like drowning, hights, water, food, black cats, spiders, and anything that teriffies an idividual
i would advise you to talk to your doctor or go on the internet and do a little reaserch ok hun

good luck

Answer 6

You can easily type these questions in Google search and discover many results. We shouldn't have to do your homework for you.

Answer 7

arachnophobia is pretty much the most common. the fear of spiders. and claustrophobia, the fear of tight spaces