Panic attack

Specific Phobia Specific phobia is defined as the occurrence of intense and abnormal fear when exposed to a specific object, person or situation. To be diagnosed with specific phobia, the fear must cause last over 6 months and cause severe and debilitating anxiety or distress. There are five categories that all specific phobias fall into: animals (such as sharks), situations (such as planes), blood, injections and injury (such as getting a needle), natural environment (such as storms) and other…

She reported difficulty with all activities of daily living, with concentration, memory, understanding and following directions, completing tasks, and getting along with people. She had anxiety attacks being around Hispanic males and anyone who had prison tattoos. She startled easily and had panic attacks when she was in…

It’s a boy! I was so excited I wasn’t sure I’d be able to wait the four months to hold him. All I could think about was naming him Ted so I could call him my little teddy bear. Well that part didn’t happen but he still became mine. The joy of holding something so tiny in your hands is something I’ll never get use to. I just couldn’t wrap my mind around the fact that I had a nephew. Drug use is something that affects millions of families worldwide. Mine is one of those families. My oldest…

Every person has some level of anxiety. It’s responsible for the fight-or-flight reflex, an inner voice used to calculate risk and an essential factor that keeps us alive. My anxiety has always been an overwhelming force in my life but primarily as a nagging voice in my head threatening severe consequences for all of my actions. In kindergarten I would count my delicate footsteps on the school sidewalk, only allowing two steps per concrete slab. If I stepped three times in one square, I would…

stress, understand it, and find ways to cope with it. I know I am stressed when my three frequent states are turned upside down. My physical, mental, and behavioral reactions get scrambled. Physically I get frequent headaches, heartburn, sudden panic attacks, clamminess, and shortness of breath. This can make it difficult to sit throughout an entire class without out feeling like I am going to have an outburst. Mentally I experience wild mood swings, have difficulty making decisions, and…

where all I could do was stand in front of my bathroom mirror and pop what pimples dared to show on my skin. The problem was, as far as my face goes, I have almost none there. But when it came to my body, there were quite a few problem areas I could attack. Hey, when you’re desperate, you’re desperate. Honestly, looking back now, it was a compulsion, not a hobby. Dermatillomania. Skin-picking disorder. /My friends were into it, too. We used to share videos on the internet, really fucked up…

to deal with psychological and physical hardships. Two effects cadets experience are hallucinations and panic attacks. Primarily, cadets experience hallucinations. A hallucination is when the mind…

“What About Bob?” is a comedy starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss. Murray’s character, Bob Wiley, suffers from a multitude of disorders and phobias. He is very neurotic and easily forms extreme attachments to people and things he gets comfortable with. Dreyfuss plays Dr. Leo Marvin a successful psychiatrist with a huge ego, who thinks he has a grip on everything. He thinks he knows how to handle anyone or any situation with ease and clarity. The movie revolves around Leo’s new book “Baby…

Future. That’s probably one of the scariest words I know. The future is unpredictable, it’s often wrapped in wrapping paper, ready to be opened and it can both be exciting and disappointing. While I was in Elementary, I dreamed of being a chef, a cop, a fashion designer, a softball player, a singer, and an actor. As soon as I was in middle school, I wanted to be one thing, a singer, I had decided that I liked singing enough for it to be a career, although my vocal range disagreed. I entered into…

Whenever one is startled, or caught off-guard, the innate human response is to either flee or fight. Most human brains are wired to run from danger. This runs parallel to when humans are faced with a problem or a difficult situation. Many individuals would rather run away from problems than work at resolving them. The novel “Things That Fly” by Douglas Coupland conveys the themes of Escape as well as The Human Condition in his short story by utilizing the symbols of Superman, the narrator’s…