Acrophobia

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Acrophobia

Treating Acrophobia 2
Treating Acrophobia GRADE-90
Wood (1999) describes a person suffering from a phobia experiences a
persistent, irrational fear of some specific object, situation, or activity
that poses no real danger (or whose danger is blown all out of
proportion). Agoraphobia, social phobia, and specific phobia are three
classes of phobia. Agoraphobics have an intense fear of being in a
situation from which immediate escape is not possible or in which help
would not be available If the person should become overwhelmed by
anxiety or experience a panic attack or panic-like symptoms. People
who suffer from social phobia are intensely afraid of any social or
performance situation in which they might embarrass or humiliate
themselves in front of otherswhere they might shake, blush, sweat, or
in some other way appear clumsy, foolish, or incompetent. Specific
phobiaa marked fear of a specific object or situationis a catchall
category for any phobias other than agoraphobia and social phobia.
Specific phobia can be divided further into four other subcategories.
The four categories are situational phobia, fear of natural
environments, animal phobias, and blood-injection-injury phobia
(p521).
By definition, phobias are irrational, meaning that they interfere with ones everyday life or daily routine. For example, if your fear of high
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places prevents you from crossing necessary bridges to get to work, that fear is irrational. If your fears keep you from enjoying life or even preoccupy your thinking so that you are unable to work, or sleep, or to do things you wish to do, then it becomes irrational.
Wood (1999) states that phobics will go to great lengths to avoid the
feared object or situation. Some people with bloodinjection--injury
phobia will not seek medical care even if is a matter of life and death.
And those with a severe dental phobia will actually let their teeth rot
rather than visit the dentist (p522).
It is very important that people suffering from phobias be treated, in order to be able to enjoy their lives to a higher extent, literally speaking for those individuals suffering from acrophobia.
Claustrophobia and acrophobia are two types of phobias that are usually treated by therapists. Acrophobia is the situational phobia in which there is a fear of heights. Being on a bridge, in a tall building, flying, or in any situation in which height will cause discomfort would fall into this cat...

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