Agoraphobias

Humanity is a complex yet simple phenomenon. A group of species that accomplish so much and have some of the most complicated brains of evolution. That it’s hard to believe that there are situations and or circumstances they can’t handle. However, like any species even humankind can have defects and or errors that limit us as humanbeings. In the human brain, there is a gene that create fear called the Stathmin gene. Which usually benefits people when it comes to touching a stove, jumping off a building, and playing with fire. Fear often used correctly save people’s lives everyday. But what happens if these fears are irrational? Fears, that not only limit a person’s life but hurts them as well and acts as something that can even danger one’s …show more content…
Patients dealing with a Social Phobia have a deep fear of social interactions and performance situations they usually feel anxious, nervous, embarassed, judged, or fearful of offending other people. Whereas, agoraphobia cause patients to fear an indefinite situation, like taking public transportation, residing in open or enclosed areas, being in a large crowd on a hot summer day and standing in a long line. The anxiety is created by fear that there’s no way out or try to find help when an episode occurs. People with agoraphobia get it after having one or more panic attacks, causing them to fear having to experience it again thus, avoiding the place that stimulated the attack. The same could be said for specific phobia patients instead of tight places rather any place in general and objects. This includes dated elevators, bridges, and amusement park rides. Individuals usually are more terrified and hard to control when there are numerous ridiculous things they fear of such as germs, animals, heights, thunder, flying dental or medical procedures. When it comes to these three categories of phobias there are effective and ineffective treatments. Therefore, psychologists should know what can help a patient get over their fears but sometimes they force them emotionally or even worse, harm them physically with crazy tactics and bad …show more content…
The eight to thirteen year old female subjects were shown phobia-relevant ordinarily disgust-inducing, horror-inducing and adequately neutral pictures in the meanwhile, an electrograph recorded their reactions. The participants endured four hours of this cognitive-behavioral therapy. Treated girls showed signs of enhanced amplitudes of late positive potential at “frontal sites” because of their exposure to spider pictures. The overall outcome of the experiment reflects an improvement in controlled attentional engagement and is similar to existing data of female adults. Furthermore, there was a drop of therapy-specific in disgust proneness along with inexperienced arousal and disgust when looking at gross