There are a number of problems that are included into the notion of anxiety. Among them are: general phobia, social phobia, special phobia (fear of open and closed space, fear of spiders, etc.), state of panic, posttraumatic stress. Every day many people appear to face some sort of phobia malfunction.
According to the statistics, nearly 25% of the whole world population has various forms of phobia that need periodical treatment from time to time. Less strong forms of phobia trouble other 25% (e.g. fear of spiders or mice).
It is necessary to distinguish between phobia and fear. During our life all of us sooner or later come across situations causing strong fear that is in fact a natural reaction of the body assisting us to cope with risk.
Nevertheless, some people feel a strong and unreasonable fear that can not be explained by any situation.
Such individuals suffer from permanent fear that interferes with their everyday activities. (more…)