There are many Psychological Disorders: Bipolar Disorder; Generalized Anxiety Disorder; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; Panic and Agoraphobia Disorder; Schizophrenia.... Disorders like depression, neuroses, anxiety disorders, psychosomatic diseases, posttraumatic stress disorders, are very common in ...

Neurosis (or psychoneurosis) is a mental disorder that causes frequent feelings of anxiety, depression, or other feelings of distress that are not normal to the circumstances of life. This can affect any and all areas of life, whether being everyday activities to relationships. Generally though, the...

What is Normal? There are several criteria for judging whether people's thinking, emotions, or behaviors are normal. But to explain clearly what is normal, we must find out what is abnormal. Abnormal is thought, behavior, feelings which are maladaptive, disruptive, uncomfortable to person th...

Fear of Flying A phobia is a clinically recognized, intense fear of an object or situation. According to the Oxford Dictionary of Psychology (Colman, 2004), a phobia can be defined as "a persistent, irrational fear of an object, event, activity, or situation called a phobic stimulus, resul...

Agoraphobia Agoraphobia falls into the general category of anxiety disorders. The anxiety disorders include panic disorder, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, specific phobia, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, acute stress disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The anci...

People with anxiety disorders aren't the only people who experience anxiety; in fact, everyone feels it everyday, they just don't know it. Anxiety is what you feel before a big game or an important test. It's the source of excitement before you go on a ski trip at your favorite resort...

The purpose of this paper is to understand Panic Disorder and symptoms, types of the disorder, treatment, and relation to other disorders and how it affects people in general. Included, is a case study of "Sarah" who suffered with a panic disorder. Panic Disorder is when someone experience...

Anxiety is the brain's way of telling the body that there is danger, something difficult, or something painful coming. It is a biological process that tells us when we can stay where we are, and when we either need to protect ourselves or move to a safer place. When the brain tells the body the...

The term agoraphobia has been widely misunderstood. Its literal definition suggests a fear of "open spaces". However, this is an incomplete and misleading view. Agoraphobics are not necessarily afraid of open spaces. Rather, they are afraid of having panicky feelings, wherever. these fearful feeling...