Fear of heights. Acrophobia

Acrophobia is the fear of heights. Symptoms of Acrophobia Phobias are to be taken seriously. If they aren’t given proper attention and treatment, might start to limit the sufferers life. In some cases up to the degree of extreme anxiety and depression. Knowing how to manage thoughts and anxiety will not only help a person

Fear of noise. Acousticophobia

Acousticophobia is the fear of noise. Symptoms of Acousticophobia Phobias are to be taken seriously. If they aren’t given proper attention and treatment, might start to limit the sufferers life. In some cases up to the degree of extreme anxiety and depression. Knowing how to manage thoughts and anxiety will not only help a person

Fear of darkness. Achluophobia

Achluophobia is the fear of darkness. Symptoms of Achluophobia Phobias are to be taken seriously. If they aren’t given proper attention and treatment, might start to limit the sufferers life. In some cases up to the degree of extreme anxiety and depression. Knowing how to manage thoughts and anxiety will not only help a person

Fear of sourness. Acerophobia

Acerophobia is the fear of sourness. Treatment of Acerophobia For many individual who are suffering from sourness – Acerophobia. Don’t always feel the need of treatment because they can just avoid the object of their fear. This gives people suffering from Acerophobia a feeling of control on the problem. But sometimes avoiding sourness might not

Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching. Acarophobia

Acarophobia is the fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.Treatment of AcarophobiaFor many individual who are suffering from itching or of the insects that cause itching – Acarophobia. Don’t always feel the need of treatment because they can just avoid the object of their fear. This gives people suffering from Acarophobia a

Fear of washing or bathing. Ablutophobia

Ablutophobia is the fear of washing or bathing. Ablutophobia Symptoms Phobias should never be taken very lightly. Because, all phobias can to some degree limit a persons daily activities and are in some cases the root cause that make someone experience anxiety and leading up all the way to depression. The People that are suffering

Survival Mechanisms and fears

The phenomenon of anxiety represents but one of many separate but interrelated “strategies” for dealing with threat and thus should be analyzed within the total framework of an organism’s responses to danger. In the broadest sense, these responses include not only those patterns generally associated with anxiety but also the class of hostile behaviors associated

The Function of Anxiety

ADAPTATIONAL ASPECTS When we consider such reactions as anxiety, inhibition, blanking out, fainting, it is not at all clear what useful function they serve. However, when we regard these symptoms as having served a function in the evolution of our species, their presence begins to make sense. Terms such as teleonomic and adaptational are used

HOCH’S PARADOX

While a large proportion of writers concur with Freud’s concept, some, like P. Hoch, have challenged the logic of his formulation. Hoch posed the question, “If anxiety is a signal that repressed instinctual forces have begun to erupt, why should the alarm burn down the house?” (1950, p. 108). Hoch’s paradox applies especially to cases

Realistic and unrealistic fears

Making a distinction between affective response and cognitive process resolves semantic contradictions like “realistic” or “neurotic anxiety,” “rational anxiety” or “irrational anxiety.” It is illogical to qualify an emotion or a feeling state with adjectives (“rational” or “irrational,” for example) that are usually applied to ideas or concepts. One can label a fear as being