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agoraphobia
noun
The fear of wide open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions.
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Listening to Mr Campbell's AFA address, it is easy to conclude that agoraphobia reigns over the American housing market.
Its founders are a team of clinical psychiatrists and game developers who got together to develop gamified solutions to manage psychological conditions such as stress and agoraphobia.
He calls this agoraphobia.
In addition, about 50 percent of people with panic disorder develop agoraphobia, an abnormal fear of open or public places that are associated with anxiety-inducing situations or events.
For example, in the case of panic disorder and agoraphobia, scales measure the frequency of panic attack symptoms, the severity of agoraphobic avoidance, and the extent to which the client is fearful of panic-related sensations (a hallmark feature of panic disorder).
Complex and social phobias – agoraphobia is a classic example – tend to emerge in young adulthood, although there is some evidence to suggest there may be a genetic element to these conditions, explains Dr Norris.
He has had trouble sleeping, suffers from agoraphobia, can only with the greatest difficulty, say, go out for a pizza, and feels a permanent tension inside himself, compounded by what he has inflicted on his family.
Caudwell, 62, disclosed his son Rufus had been diagnosed with Lyme disease earlier this month after suffering panic attacks, bouts of agoraphobia and travel sickness from the age of 10, which doctors initially diagnosed as mental health issues.
Underwater, I'm still prone to pangs of claustrophobia from poor visibility, or agoraphobia from the vast expanse, but I've rationalised my fear of sharks.
He was also experiencing panic attacks and agoraphobia.
Although hikikomori is now taken to mean a kind of reclusive agoraphobia, Yuki displays all the symptoms of its literal meaning, "pulling inward, being confined", despite having crossed half the globe in her desperation to make sense of things.
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