The phrase "compulsive fear" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It describes an intense and uncontrollable fear or anxiety that drives a person's actions or thoughts. Example: Despite knowing he was safe, John's compulsive fear of spiders prevented him from entering the room until someone else removed the small arachnid from the corner.
The two videos "kjm_NAc_OCD_merged...".. are full and abridged videos showing provocation of a compulsive fear with the patient.
It immediately triggers the babbling, totally random, borderline incoherent monologues that we spew out when we feel most out of control, when we have totally lost our center and are overwhelmed by the compulsive fear based, panic soaked need to talk and talk and talk until we exhaust ourselves or anyone who has made the unfortunate choice of sitting across from us at our favorite cafe.
The young David, overintellectual and compulsive, feared being touched; the childlike Lisa could speak only in rhymes, while her alter ego, Muriel, was speechless.
Fear of loss rules the life of an obsessive-compulsive — fear of loss of control, fear of loss in both physical and metaphysical realms (paradoxically, the fear of losing worthwhile thoughts), and the ultimate fear — fear over the loss of time when consumed by compulsive rituals; I live in a constant race with time to make up for the time lost to the dictates of the disease.
Dickens knew, and had demonstrated, that the giving up of secrets could be freeing -- as a young man of 32, he met one Madame de la Rue, an Englishwoman married to a Frenchman, who was beset by what we would recognize as obsessive-compulsive fears and anxieties.
Acute stress and generalized anxiety are very real mental conditions pets face, along with compulsive disorders, fears and phobias and in severe cases, even post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The results showed remarkable promise in helping people to overcome pain, fear, compulsive behaviours and psychological isolation.
Suicide, a grimly compulsive game of fear and guilt, as addictive as alcohol or drugs, is experimental at first — a little blood here, a bit of choking there, just to see what it will be like.
What is not helpful is the obsessive, compulsive nature of fear.
Trait anxiety was measured using the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (Spence 1998), comprising 38 self-report items assessing the frequency with which participants experience feelings of separation anxiety, social phobia, obsessive compulsive behaviours, panic, fear of physical injury and generalised anxiety.
Because studies have shown that tDCS may be useful in treating people debilitated by stroke, Parkinson's disease, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder, clinicians fear that in addition to competitive healthy people, severely compromised people may be tempted to experiment with brain stimulation at home.
