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High anxiety:


customary kind of anxiety, which is an outcome of stress. A person experiencing high anxiety suffers from different phobias. A phobia can be defined as an irrational feeling of intense fear of an object, situation or condition. This fear is not induced by any trauma or any substantial reason.

The various phobias of high anxiety:
Specific phobia, social phobia and agoraphobia are the different phobias. Each has its own specifications.
Specific phobia: sometimes people portray extreme fear of petty things like insects. Their fear can on occasions be so intense that they may faint at the very sight of the insect. Common specific phobias are hydrophobia, claustrophobia and vertigo phobia, which are fear of water, fear of closed areas and fear of height respectively.
Social phobia: someone who gets easily embarrassed in social situations suffers from social phobia. So intense is his feeling of embarrassment that he shivers in fright when he has to face crowd or when many people surround him. They detest and dread being called out or being spotted. These people usually avoid crowded places.
Agoraphobia: this phobia is defined as a morbid fear of open spaces. It is a Greek word meaning 'fear of market places'. The person suffering from this phobia avoids places from where he believes an escape is impossible.

Sometimes therapies prove helpful to eradicate high anxiety:

Since in case of phobias, the mind is where the problem is, it has to be manipulated in order solve the destructive problem. It has been noted that counseling given by a professional counselor is the beat and the simplest way to recover from these types of illnesses. However, when a patient begins to suffer these phobias they have already reached abnormal heights. For this reason, therapies may prove more helpful than counseling. Cognitive behavioral therapy is eminent theories that help unravel problems of high anxiety. This therapy helps to bring about a total change in the thinking process of the individual in distress. It assists the individual's brain to change its thinking pattern. This therapy becomes almost impossible if the person isn't aware of his problem. It is the therapist's job to make the patient aware of his problem in the first place, because without the person's willingness to become normal, the treatment can be almost impossible.

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