are phobias a form of anxiety
Mental health professionals often distinguish between generalized social phobia and specific social phobia. People with generalized social phobia have great distress in a wide range of social situations. Those with specific social phobia may experience anxiety only in a few situations. The term specific social phobia may also refer to specific forms of non-clinical social anxiety. The most common symptoms of specific social phobia are glossophobia, the fear of public speaking and the fear of performance, known as stage fright. 1. Specific phobias: Fear of particular objects or social situations that immediately results in anxiety and can sometimes lead to panic attacks. Specific phobia may be further subdivided into five categories: animal type, natural environment type, situational type, blood-injection-injury type, and other. 1 Social anxiety disorder: Also called social phobia, social anxiety disorder involves overwhelming worry and self-consciousness about everyday social situations. 2  The worry often centers on a fear of being judged by others, or behaving in a way that might cause embarrassment or lead to ridicule. Symptoms vary depending on the type of anxiety disorder, but general symptoms include: 1  Feelings of panic, fear, and uneasiness. 2  Problems sleeping. 3  Cold or sweaty hands and/or feet. 4  Shortness of breath. 5  Heart palpitations. 6  An inability to be still and calm. 7  Dry mouth. 8  Numbness or tingling in the hands or feet. Nowhere in your article do you mention the problems that are created for the heart in anxiety (and panic attack). Anxiety is a mix of emotions that conflict the heart-lung system. The two types are 1. fear and worry 2. anger and worry. Both fear and anger elevated the body's metabolism, though by different pathways. Most of us make some distinction between fear and anxiety. Sometimes it's merely a matter of linguistics. We say we have a fear of something (flying, aging) and anxiety about something (flying, aging). Sometimes we distinguish the two by our bodily experience. I'm sure you're aware that the neurobiology of fear is different than the neurobiology of anxiety. When the distinction between anxiety and fear isn't critical to the discussion at hand, I use just one of these words as the umbrella term in my book, The Dance of Fear. Anxiety, apprehension, fear, terror--however you name it, what matters is how you cope. In everyday conversation, we use the language of emotions that we're comfortable with and that fits our psychological complexion. I've worked with clients who don't report feeling anxious or afraid. Phobias. A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder that describes an excessive and irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation. Phobias involve intense fear surrounding an object or situation that realistically poses little or no real danger. Symptoms. Symptoms of phobias are similar to those of a panic attack. When faced with the specific object, activity, or situation that is the subject of intense fear, an individual with a phobia may exhibit the following symptoms: 1  Uncontrollable feelings of anxiety, dread, and panic. 2  Rapid heart rate. 3  Difficulty breathing. 4  Sweating. Specific social phobia may be classified into performance fears and interaction fears, i.e., fears of acting in a social setting and interacting with other people, respectively. The cause of social phobia is not definite.
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