What Is Agoraphobia and How to Cure It?

Agoraphobia typically produces an anxiety reaction to open spaces or being a long distance from a place or person of security. Often, agoraphobics cannot move around freely without a person they trust and/or within a very tight vicinity of a safe ‘escape’. The agoraphobia response is a completely appropriate reaction to threat and forms part of our natural instinct for self-preservation. However, when agoraphobia becomes intrusive and constant, it must be dealt with and eliminated. Encountering a ‘threatening’ situation, a sufferer will often take extreme...

Social Anxiety Disorder

Social Anxiety Disorder involves overwhelming anxiety and excessive self consciousness in everyday social situations. People with social anxiety have a persistent, intense and sometimes chronic fear of being watched and/or judged by other people and being embarased and/or humiliated by their actions. Their fear may be so severe that it interferes with work or school and other everyday activities. Many people with social anxiety disorder are worried by writing or eating in front of others and have constant ongoing fear of public identification or anything that draws...