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My talk today is on Anxiety. Anxiety is
something ........................................................................ at some time in
your life so you'll know that ........................................................................
in which feelings of dread, fear and mental agitation predominate.
However, what we call ......................................................, or anxiety
neurosis or phobic
state-..........................................................................................-is
characterized by anxiety reactions far
greater than those ........................................................................
the circumstances and these reactions ....................................
and prolonged. This
is ..........................................................................................neurosis in
westernized countries. Usually, normal anxiety decreases with repeated
exposure ........................................................................ whereas a
neurotic anxiety tends to increase. Gradually the person is inclined to
avoid the feared situation and views it with increasing dread.
Sometimes there may be an inherited tendency for
this, but ........................................................................ are
more important. The
individual .................................................................................throughout
life and a stressful condition, just before symptoms set in, is common.
Often ..........................................................................................anxiety,
possibly for weeks or months, before the ultimate break occurs. The
precipitating cause is usually
one of great significance ....................................,
often related to ......................................................-such as bereavement,
a break-up, threats to career, health or personal integrity.
What are the symptoms of phobia? Well, phobic states often
develop into severe, crippling ..................................that can be very
difficult to overcome. The person ......................................................
certain situations. It's not uncommon
to ............................................................................................................
at the same time. I'm going to name some frequent phobias and give
you ..........................................................................................: Let's start
with Agoraphobia which is when the
person ........................................................................about venturing
outside the safety of ......................................................................... It
may be impossible for this person to ever go
out alone. .......................................................................................... is
completely irrational and they often end up leading very secluded lives.
Claustrophobia, on the other hand, is a morbid fear of closed-in areas or
places-if you see me .................................... instead of the lift,
think about it-am I trying to ...................................................... or am I
trying to avoid the confined interior of the lift? And I'm sure you all know
people ........................................................................-sometimes it's the
fear of being enclosed in the aeroplane itself-and you can imagine how
the cramped confines of airline toilets
are .....................................................................................................
Now, I'll move on to discuss Social phobia which, believe it or not, is
more common in men. It's an acute anxiety that
develops when......................................................................... They feel
self-conscious, apprehensive and embarrassed. If attention (real or
imagined) is focused on the sufferer, ......................................................
and may blush, stammer or stutter. Some sufferers even
develop tremors-shaking or trembling movements of a part ( or parts) of
the body-or, another very common sign of
their ........................................................................ is that they perspire
profusely on their palms, under their arms or on their feet.
That brings me to the last one that I want to mention today and that is
Single phobia-and no, it's not a fear of lifelong bachelorhood! This one is
actually precipitated by an acute
aversion ........................................................................-you may
have heard of the term, arachnophobia? Well it applies specifically to
spiders-but any single thing can basically cause a strong aversion:
snakes, frogs, mice or rats, for instance. I can assure
you, ......................................................................... You name it, and
someone is sure to ....................................................... Some people are
terrified of the dark, for example, and I'm not talking about young
children here. ........................................................................how many
adults are afflicted in this way.
Well, I see ....................................................... Next week, I'll go into
some of .......................................................................................... that
have been used over the ages and some of the relatively new drugs that
have recently come on the scene.
