Essay On Agoraphobia

Any individual may have an anxiety disorder diagnosis when he or she has been under stress's symptoms for six months or more. Those symptoms include but are not limited to sweating, tachycardia, dizziness, upset stomach, hyperventilation, irritability and poor concentration. When a generalized anxiety disorder gets more intense over the course of time (a chronic state) patients may experience moments of anxiety attacks, diagnose that is known well as a panic disorder. If patients do not realize of what are they are going through and do not look for professional help, they may start to feel fear of having a panic attack in public places. At this point professionals state that patients are presenting a panic attack with agoraphobia; which is, according to Psychology a journey text book (2011), "a chronic state of anxiety and brief moments of sudden panic because the person fears that these panic attack will occur in public places or unfamiliar circumstances". The
According to Mayo Clinic Staff individual of age 35 or under are at risk, but it is no limited, older adults also can develop agoraphobia too. The psychiatric publications have shown that women are diagnosed with agoraphobia more often than men. Other factors that predisposed to agoraphobia in individuals are having a tendency to be nervous or anxious, experiencing stressful life events (sexual, physical, or psychological abuse), the death of a love one (parent, husband/wife, kids, or special friends), and/or genetic (having a blood relative with agoraphobia). A longitudinal study was done in East Baltimore from 1981 to 1993 on a adult population of 18 years old and up, using a Diagnostic Interview Schedule. The study reveled that "some personal traits like avoidance, dependence and relate characteristics (timidity) predicted onset of panic disorder, agoraphobia or both conditions over the follow up period" (O. Joseph Bienvenu, May