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 DEFINITION
The agoraphobia is characterized because the individual feels an extraordinary fear and therefore he avoids to remain alone or to be in situations or to be in situations or public places, of which it can be difficult to escape or to obtain help in case of sudden impeachment. When a person suffers from agoraphobia, his body reacts to daily situations as if there were situations of real danger.
SITUATIONS AND REACTIONS
This fear appears in quite concrete and predictable situations. Between the most common awesome situations they are: to move away from house, to cross an open square, to walk along an empty street or was finding in enclosures they were extending that concentraducha the people like concerts, movies, public transports... As a result of this, the normal activities of the everyday life are restricted progressively as the fear dominates the conduct of the individual, turning into a disorder much incapacitante.
It is not the situation or the object what provokes the phobic reaction, but the signs of safety absence, the sensation of not being able to escape, of not finding to help or of the shame in case of being flooded by the anxiety.
SYMPTOMS
Between the physiological symptoms tachycardia, loss of sensibility are included in arms and legs, pins and needles, sickness and dizziness, sudoración, faints, difficulties to breathe...
The psychological symptoms are of the type "I am going to feel sick", "I am going to faint", there are feelings of "fear of the fear", that refers to the thought of which these physical and psychic symptoms will not be able to be controlled.
The fear does not turn out to be alone when the agoraphobe faces the stimulus that produces it, but it begins as soon as the sensation afraid of the one that has to be exhibited approaches. This way the agoraphobe will begin feeling distressed from the moment in which it begins to prepare to leave to the street, to the buy, or to the work. This anxiety anticipatorio, in many cases it becomes more intense than the experimenteda in the proper situation.
Being accompanied by someone of confidence, or even potar a mobile reduces very much his anxiety. It can be corrected successfully with professional help.
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