what is the difference between phobias and panic attacks?
A phobia is an irrational fear of a particular thing or circumstance. A panic attack is free-floating. There is no identifiable source.
Category: panic attack phobia
what happens during a panic attack?
im asking this question for two reasons first in my novel i want my character to be very prone to having panic attacks so obv i need to know what they are like so i can describe what happening to her and secondly i went to the dentist not long ago and they told me [...]
Phobia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
Im 16 and have a phobia of feeling sick and being sick. For some reason, when ever im out with my friends on social events this is when I start to feel sick. Then I get panicky and can have a panic attack. So I therefore dont go out that much. Tomorrow, I am going [...]
how can i get over panic attacks when asked to read out loud in class? Is this social phobia or a phobia?
Im 17 and whenever the teacher calls upon me in class i get panic /anxiety attacks that are so powerful i feel like im about to pass out, my heart starts pumping a million miles an hour. I run out of breath so much that after a sentence my voice is all stuttery. This happenes [...]
How to assure that the nurse will take my needle phobia seriously?
Okay, I’m going to get a blood test tomorrow and I have a SEVERE needle phobia. I faint and/or have a panic attack starting 5 minutes before the injection until a good 15 minutes after. It isn’t pretty. I’ve told nurses/doctors who’ve taken blood (I can deal with injections) about the fear but they don’t [...]
is this a mild panic attack or what?
ok when i’m watching a scary movie and a pop up happens i get like this hot flash through out my entire body, my arm pits start to sweat and my heart starts to race. but it only lasts for like 5 seconds or until the pop up is gone. i also start feeling like [...]
phobias (panic attacks)?
im am a 16 year old girl suffer from serious panic attacks they are being treated but still very bad i have phobias that are holding me back from getting better any idea how i could get over them?? xx Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is proved to be a very effect treatment for phobias and [...]
i started having bad panic attacks and social phobia at 14 at 15 i couldnt take it anymore……..?
i stopped going to school and going outside my mum helped me homeschool to get the certificate but the lonlyness is killing me im 18 now and am still in my room i try to be positive but its not working im seeing a psych and its not doin anything im still to nervous to [...]
Is this a panic attack, or something else?
I think I might have agoraphobia, or some kind of anxiety, or social phobia. When I have to face some social situations (Most of the time I feel as if others are judging me, and I get really afraid of public embarrasment, even if I’m just around friends), my heart beats wildly (I can really [...]
Im having a horrible panic attack please look!!?
Okay so Im having a major panic attack (I have a phobia called emetophobia) and I kinda need advice/reassurance.. My daughter that is 6 months old..has only had rice cereal about 3 maybe 4 times so far..normally I make it with just water but this time I bought some baby apple juice and figured to [...]
