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Fear of lakes keeping you from enjoying your vacation?

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:42:01 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: Drug free help is available. Don't let the fear of lakes keep you from a good time water-skiing.

Clip Source: www.changethatsrightnow.com

Lakes Fear?

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What is Lakes Fear?

Defined as "a persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of lakes", each year this surprisingly common phobia causes countless people needless distress.

Known by a number of names - Limnophobia and Fear of Lakes being the most common - the problem often significantly impacts the quality of life. It can cause panic attacks and keep people apart from loved ones and business associates. Symptoms typically include shortness of breath, rapid breathing, irregular heartbeat, sweating, nausea, and overall feelings of dread, although everyone experiences lakes fear in their own way and may have different symptoms.

Tags: fear, phobia, limnophobia, lakes, help, psychotherapy, science

Mud phobia piglet gets its own boots

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:33:53 GMT

clipped by: Snaggle

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

A piglet scared of wallowing in mud has overcome its fears with the help of some Wellington boots

Six-week-old Cinders appears to suffer from mysophobia, a fear of dirt, after refusing to join her siblings as they splashed around in the mud

Owner Andrew Keeble from Thirsk, North Yorks, said his daughter Ellie, 12, suggested kitting her out in the tiny footwear which had been on a key ring.

"Lo and behold they fitted her like a glove," Mr Keeble said.

"She's scared of mud, but her brothers and sisters are quite happy in it.

"We've never come across this before. They are born really to go and explore, but she never really liked going in the mud."

"She's more of a pet really now and she's going to live a very long and happy life," he said.

The young saddleback has been chosen by the couple as a mascot for their campaign to raise money for the Farm Crisis Network, which supports struggling farmers.

Pathologising Human Unhappiness

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:10:13 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: It is the last sentence that expresses my anger. I work with the severely mentally ill and I am sick and tired of resources being diverted to privileged, spoilt, articulate miseries. Sure, the latter need help but not from doctors.

Clip Source: www.spiked-online.com

Humanity, thou art sick

Shyness is now ‘social phobia’, and dissent is ‘Oppositional Defiant Disorder’. How did everyday emotions come to be seen as illnesses?

‘In my mother’s generation, shy people were seen as introverted and perhaps a bit awkward, but never mentally ill.’

So writes the Chicago-based research professor, Christopher Lane, in his fascinating new book Shyness: How Normal Behaviour Became a Sickness.

the introverted individual morphed into the mildly psychotic person whose symptoms included being aloof, being dull, and simply “being alone”

The sad consequence of this state of affairs is that the range of ‘healthy behaviour’ is being increasingly narrowed. ‘Our quirks and eccentricities - the normal emotional range of adolescence and adulthood – have become problems we fear and expect drugs to fix’,

those who really do need help – who suffer from real emotional or behavioural disorders – are increasingly losing out

Tags: mental illness

Nasal spray counters social fears

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:04:51 GMT

clipped by: deusdiabolus

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

A nasal spray containing an antibiotic used to treat tuberculosis may help people to overcome their fears of public speaking, attending work parties or even performing karaoke.

Psychologists found that sprays emitting D-Cycloserine (DCS) significantly reduced the symptoms of people afflicted with chronic social phobias.

Patients suffering from irrational fears normally undergo "exposure therapy", which involves people confronting the things they are frightened of the most.

Research in America suggests that as many as 13 in 100 people suffer from a social phobia and are worried about being watched, judged or criticised in public.

People usually show the first symptoms of social phobias at the age of 15, but they can continue for a long time if left untreated.

Scientists say that DCS has no effect on fear on its own, but enhances the therapy sessions by changing the neurotransmitters in the brain associated with learning to overcome fear.

Tags: nootropics, medicine, psychology, anxiety, social, phobia

THE PHOBIA LIST

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:51:25 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator
clipper's remarks: Nice alpha list of phobias

Clip Source: www.phobialist.com

If you're looking for a phobia name that's not on the list....Sorry, but I don't have it.

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THE PHOBIA LIST

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

or Click here for the Indexed Phobia List online.

Cyberphobia- Fear of computers or working on a computer.

Gynephobia or Gynophobia- Fear of women.

Homilophobia- Fear of sermons.

Linonophobia- Fear of string

Nephophobia- Fear of clouds.

Oneirogmophobia- Fear of wet dreams.

Phengophobia- Fear of daylight or sunshine.

Syngenesophobia- Fear of relatives.

Verbophobia- Fear of words.

Xanthophobia- Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow.

Tags: the phobia list, life, health

Hormone spray could banish shyness

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:44:10 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.newscientist.com

It was hailed as the "trust" hormone, then the "mind-reading" hormone. Now it seems oxytocin may also help people with social phobia to interact.

Markus Heinrichs at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and colleagues are studying 70 people with generalised social phobia, characterised by overwhelming anxiety and self-consciousness in social situations.

Half an hour before undergoing standard cognitive behavioural therapy, which is designed to alter negative thoughts and behaviour, the patients were given a dose of oxytocin by nasal spray.

Preliminary results suggest oxytocin improved their readiness to interact in role-playing and their confidence in tackling social challenges outside the sessions, says Heinrichs, who will present his results at the World Congress of Neuroscience in Melbourne, Australia, this week.

Tags: science, technology, hormones, spray, shyness

The Phobia List

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 04:10:06 GMT

clipped by: dorine
clipper's remarks: Whole list at site.

Clip Source: phobialist.com

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Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing.
Acarophobia- Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.
Acerophobia- Fear of sourness.
Achluophobia- Fear of darkness.
Acousticophobia- Fear of noise.
Acrophobia- Fear of heights.
Aerophobia- Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances.
Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high places.
Aeronausiphobia- Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.
Agateophobia- Fear of insanity.

Tags: phobia, list

Sexes have different flying fears

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:49:20 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Sexes have different flying fears

Fear differed by age and sex

Men and women who fear flying have different reasons behind their phobia, according to a Dutch researcher.

Psychologist Lucas van Gerwen from the University of Leiden in Holland says women tend to be afraid of crashing and losing control of their emotions.

Men, on the other hand, are afraid because they cannot control the airplane and fear heights.

Knowing these differences may help hone treatment, says Mr van Gerwen, who helps treat flyers at Schiphol airport.

Subtypes of fear

Age trend

Tags: fear, flying, plane, airplace, science, help

Hypnosis 'can cure female sex phobias'

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:18:43 GMT

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Clip Source: www.news.com.au

HYPNOSIS can help cure women of sex phobias like fear of sperm, a sexual health congress has been told.

Melbourne psychologist Dr Janet Hall told the gathering of sex therapists that she had successfully freed several women from their sexual problems by hypnotising them.

Some of these women had a fear of sex sparked by a condition caused vaginismus, contractions which make intercourse painful and often impossible.

"I've found that with hypnosis you can get them to rehearse the sex act in the safety of their own imagination," Dr Hall told the conference in Sydney today.

"That way you can change their negative thoughts to positive and help them reframe the problem to show them there is a solution."

She said one Indian woman with a sperm phobia overcame her fear in three sessions and was now pregnant.

Another woman used the therapy to successfully overcome the fear that her husband was going to be "swallowed up" during sex.

Tags: sexual health, phobias

driving test help

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:49:17 GMT

clipped by: larryrodnayd
clipper's remarks: TAPS therapy formula eradicates all trauma and stresses associated the driving test. It includes session by session course and tips on passing your driving test to overcome driving test phobia. So just throw driving test phobia away from your life and take the lead on driver seat.

Clip Source: www.tapstherapy.co.uk

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Tags: driving test help, driving test anxiety

Dental Care Help

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:02:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Care for your teeth because your teeth enables you to bite that sumptuous meal and helps you live longer. you can get all the details about dental treatment and maintainance.

Clip Source: www.1dentalcarehelp.com

Confidence and trust are key factors when visiting your dental team, a dental expert said, "Dentists are trained to understand their patients worries and cam empathize with them. Your dentist should be an expert, not just in technical dentistry but in communication, empathy, understanding and be able to deliver care in a professional manner". He also stated "that cost was actually quite low on their list of concerns, a hygienic, friendly environment is more important for most people"

Tags: dental care help, dental surgeries, dental conditions, dental insurance, dental phobia, tooth whitening

The Phobia list

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:48:16 GMT

clipped by: hitchhiker08
clipper's remarks: Quite comprehensive...

Clip Source: phobialist.com

NAVIGATION

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Bacillophobia- Fear of microbes.
Bacteriophobia- Fear of bacteria.
Ballistophobia- Fear of missiles or bullets.
Bolshephobia- Fear of Bolsheviks.

Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness.

Tags: fear, phobia, phobia treatment, phobia help, phobia categories

driving test anxiety

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:56:24 GMT

Clip Source: drivingtestanxiety.wetpaint.com

Are you really happy today or pretend to be? I don’t mean to ask or interfere in your personal life and I am just asking whether you are happy with your driving skill or not. Are you surrounded with those people who always try to put you down when the discussion of driving comes across? Or may be you feel disgusting yourself whenever somebody asks to drive the vehicle and you don’t know how to drive. Sitting behind the driver seat sometimes really frustrate us and sometimes we miss the fragrance of those beautiful things which we can feel while driving the vehicle.

Tags: driving test help, driving test anxiety, how to pass your driving test

Three Myths About Public Speaking

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:08:21 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cbsnews.com

(MarketWatch) If you are one of the estimated 15 million Americans suffering from a phobia of public speaking, take heart. The trick to overcoming your fear may be as simple as reexamining your basic assumptions about public speaking, say Harrison Monarth and Larina Kase, communications coaches and authors of the new book "The Confident Speaker."

Here are three of the public speaking myths that can hamper performance:

Myth #1: Everyone can tell I'm panicking!

Myth #2: People are judging me

Myth #3: Postmortems will help me improve

Tags: myths, public, speaking, phobia, fear

Iran: US trying to spread anti-Iranian sentiment after incident in Persian Gulf

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:29:03 GMT

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Clip Source: www.jpost.com

Iran's Foreign Ministry on Sunday accused Washington of trying to spread anti-Iranian sentiment in the Mideast by claiming that Iranian boats threatened US warships in the Persian Gulf.

The Jan. 6 incident in the Strait of Hormuz between US and Iranian naval vessels has heightened tensions between Teheran and Washington.

The US has said an Iranian fleet of high-speed boats charged at and threatened to blow up a three-ship US Navy convoy passing near Iranian waters. The Iranian naval forces vanished as the American ship commanders were preparing to open fire.

"Some political factions in the US are pursuing adventurism to help Bush to spread Iran-phobia in the region," Hosseini said.

Tags: iran, us, persian gulf