Claustrophobia Fact Sheet • What is Claustrophobia? -Claustrophobia is a type of anxiety disorder, where the person who is suffering from it has an irrational fear of having no escape or being closed-in. Since they have great fear of being closed in, panic attacks often occur. Things as small as being in an elevator can often trigger the phobia. In other words, it is an intense fear of being confined in small spaces.
Phobias and Classical Conditioning A phobia is a constant irrational fear of an object, situation, or activity that the person feels impelled to avoid (Kowalski & Westen, 2011). Phobias can interfere with the ability to work, socialize, and maintain a normal daily routine. They can cause such an overwhelming anxiety that people who have phobias may avoid any situation or object that is associated with the phobia. Individual whom have phobias may experience sweaty hands, increasing pulse rates, anxiety, or stomach aches. They may also isolate themselves from society (Mc.
The Conversation’s absence of sound in many shots represents the ambiguity and absence of the reality in the line “He’d kill us if he had the chance” and the lack of love and emotion in Harry Caul’s life. Sound and speech is incredibly subjective and is very dependent on perspective. For example, screams can often be interpreted in two ways; one being out of fear, and the other being out of excitement. This sort of misconception is extremely similar to that of which occurs in The Conversation. The misinterpretation of the line “He’d kill us if he had the chance” causes an extreme amount of confusion and drama.
PHOBIAS AND ADDICTIONS Justin “Isaac” Wisniewski PSY/300 Sept 1st, 2013 Instructor: Karen Croley Introduction Addictions and phobias are emotional mental conditions that have the ability to complicate an otherwise normal life. Phobias are defined as “a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it” (phobias, n.d.). These fears continue regardless of an individual’s understanding or reassurance of the lack of danger. Addictions are defined as, “the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma” (addictions, n.d.). While both of these conditions can be detrimental to the emotional status of the individual, they are caused by different issues.
| c Emotional/psychologicalabuse | Name calling, insulting, withholding affection, shouting, swearing, threatening, bullying, ignoring, humiliating, teasing, racial abuse, cultural abuse. | Withdrawal, obsessive/ ritualistic behaviour, over-compliance, anti-social/ destructive behaviour, loss of appetite or over-eating, comfort behaviour, deterioration of personal hygiene. | d Financialabuse | Theft, extortion or intimidation through threats, embezzlement, mismanagement of benefits/bank account. | Unexplained lack of funds, unexplained disappearance of individual’s possessions, unusual interest by another in the individual’s finances, unexplained withdrawal from accounts, individual borrowing/ stealing money from others. | e Institutionalabuse | Rigid routines imposed on individuals, individuals woken early/sent to bed early to suit workers or
| c Emotional/psychologicalabuse | Name calling, insulting, withholding affection, shouting, swearing, threatening, bullying, ignoring, humiliating, teasing, racial abuse, cultural abuse. | Withdrawal, obsessive/ ritualistic behaviour, over-compliance, anti-social/ destructive behaviour, loss of appetite or over-eating, comfort behaviour, deterioration of personal hygiene. | d Financialabuse | Theft, extortion or intimidation through threats, embezzlement, mismanagement of benefits/bank account. | Unexplained lack of funds, unexplained disappearance of individual’s possessions, unusual interest by another in the individual’s finances, unexplained withdrawal from accounts, individual borrowing/ stealing money from others. | e Institutionalabuse | Rigid routines imposed on individuals, individuals woken early/sent to bed early to suit workers or
They will have no positive thoughts and can even have thoughts of not wanting to live anymore. Anxiety becomes an issue when it is so severe that it doesn’t allow people from doing what they want or need to do –the person stresses and worries constantly. Suzy presents us with both these mood disorders (Coon and Mitterer, 2012, pg, 564). Psychoanalytic theories hold that depression is caused by repressed anger (Coon and Mitterer, 2012, pg, 564). This rage is displaced by turned inward self, blame and self-hate.
The silent scream reverberates within the painting and out to the viewer. The two shadowy figures in the background are somewhat mysterious, are they lurking and frightening the screamer or have they passed by and not even noticed the other person’s terror? Munch uses color quite dramatically in this painting. The vivid blood red of the sky, the yellowish cast to the skeletal face and the dark moody colors of the river add to the emotionalism of this piece. The work expresses the loneliness and awful despair felt by Munch, on realization of the might of the natural world in comparison to a single human being.
k. Paranoia. l. Excessive need for privacy; unreachable. m. Secretive or suspicious behavior. n. Car
A phobia is the irrational and intense fear of an object, activity, or situation and the resulting avoidance of the object, activity, or situation. Sometimes the focus of the phobia is a completely ordinary object or experience; such as a mirror and seeing one’s own reflection. Spectrophobia is the intense fear of mirrors and seeing one’s own reflection as it applies to the supernatural. Perhaps those afflicted with spectrophobia are indeed suffering from paranormal experiences or perhaps this extreme fear is a learned behavior. Ivan Pavlov discovered what is now known as “classical conditioning”.