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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Children with posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, may have intense fear and anxiety; become emotionally numb or easily irritable; or avoid places, people, or activities after experiencing or witnessing a traumatic or life-threatening event. These events can include a serious accident, violent assault, physical abuse, or …

Panic disorder. Panic disorder is diagnosed if your child suffers at least two unexpected panic or anxiety attacks—which means they come on suddenly and for no reason—followed by at least one month of concern over having another attack, losing control, or “going crazy.” https://therapyforanxiety.org/the-treatment-of-agoraphobia/ THE TREATMENT OF AGORAPHOBIA A panic …

THE TREATMENT OF AGORAPHOBIA. Beginning in the 1960s a variety of behavioral treatments for agoraphobia were investigated including systematic desensitization, and imaginal flooding, in addition to prolonged in vivo exposure. Of these, in vivo exposure is clearly superior. Systematic desensitization, developed by Wolpe(1958), involves having the patient construct a hierarchy …

Panic Disorder of anxiety. The distinguishing feature of panic disorder is the presence of abrupt and frequently unexpected disturbances involving symptoms such as palpitations, sweating, tingling, chest pain, shortness of breath, dizziness, nausea, depersonalization, numbness, and hot flashes or chills. Patients frequently experience fears of dying, going crazy, or behaving …

THE BEHAVIORAL DIMENSION FOR ANXIETY Behavioral symptoms associated with anxiety may be classified into acute and chronic responses. In animals there is first the recognition of threat, perhaps associated with behavioral signs of fear, followed by four basic responses to threat: withdrawal, immobility, aggressive defense, and submission (Marks,1987). The behavioral …

Understanding more about your body. Your brain and your body communicate with each other via your nervous system. If you hit your thumb with a hammer, your nerves carry messages about that to your brain and you feel pain (and probably saysomething unprintable too). Your brain sends messages back to …

Management and treatment of anxiety. As you will have seen from the personal accounts of anxiety given, whilst the principles of anxiety are thesame, people are individuals and therefore find different treatment combinations helpful when it comes to the management of their anxiety. The guidelines set out the currently recommended …

Living with emetophobia. Emetophobia. That sound – the awful ‘scratching’ noise and the mere thought of someone being sick. This was the beginning of my phobia. It all started when I was about five years old. My sister Anna was being sick, not so much violently but she was being …

Living with health anxiety. Having always been an anxious child, it seems quite inevitable that at 20 years old, moving in with my partner, leaving college and starting full-time employment, my anxiety disorder introduced itself into my life. After an attack of irritable bowel syndrome, which was misdiagnosed as a …

Behavioural aspects of anxiety. These symptoms are what we DO when we are anxious – i.e. our response to our thoughts, feelings and physical symptoms. The most common behavioural symptom of anxiety is avoidance. How many times have you simply avoided putting yourself into a situation where you have previously …