Phobia Articles - Mental Health https://www.online-therapy.com/blog/phobia/ Get inspiration and help on how to deal with difficulties in life such as depression, anxiety and much more. Thu, 31 Aug 2023 20:41:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 What is Health (Illness) Anxiety, How to Support Loved Ones, & How to Cope with Symptoms https://www.online-therapy.com/blog/what-is-health-illness-anxiety-how-to-cope-with-symptoms/ https://www.online-therapy.com/blog/what-is-health-illness-anxiety-how-to-cope-with-symptoms/#respond Tue, 09 Aug 2022 10:00:41 +0000 https://www.online-therapy.com/blog/?p=13347 What is Illness Anxiety Disorder? Illness anxiety disorder, previously referred to as hypochondria or health anxiety, involves excessive worry that you are or will become seriously ill. This can involve having no physical symptoms, or believing normal sensations of the body, or even minor symptoms, are signs of serious illness. This can be present [...]

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]]> https://www.online-therapy.com/blog/what-is-health-illness-anxiety-how-to-cope-with-symptoms/feed/ 0 How to Utilize CBT for Social Anxiety https://www.online-therapy.com/blog/how-to-utilize-cbt-for-social-anxiety/ https://www.online-therapy.com/blog/how-to-utilize-cbt-for-social-anxiety/#respond Sat, 23 Apr 2022 12:58:52 +0000 https://www.online-therapy.com/blog/?p=13094 We all have our moments where we find ourselves feeling anxious in social situations. Social anxiety may be brought on by the social situation, such as meeting a significant other's family for the first time. It also can be due to the people you find yourself surrounded with, such as new groups of individuals [...]

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]]> https://www.online-therapy.com/blog/phobia-brain-chemistry/feed/ 0 Online Treatment of Emetophobia – The Intense Fear of Vomiting https://www.online-therapy.com/blog/online-treatment-of-emetophobia-the-intense-fear-of-vomiting/ https://www.online-therapy.com/blog/online-treatment-of-emetophobia-the-intense-fear-of-vomiting/#comments Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:31:16 +0000 https://www.online-therapy.com/blog/?p=969 Have you seen someone extremely afraid of vomiting, sickness or feeling nauseated every time? The intense fear of vomiting, fear of throwing up in public, feeling pukish under stressful and anxiety-provoking conditions… is known as emetophobia. It is derived from the amalgamation of two Greek words, viz. εμετός or emesis meaning to vomit and [...]

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