“Ask Dr Neuman” Advice Column
The treatment of an idea. In order to recover from agoraphobia and panic disorder, only two things need to be learned: No one is ever trapped, truly, in any of the settings phobics dread, obviously not in restaurants or on a line at a bank, or standing about at a...
Is it reasonable to be afraid of trucks when traveling down a highway, or is that fear really a phobia? Phobic patients come to treatment knowing full well that they are phobic. Usually, there are a number of places where they feel uncomfortable. These include...
Panic attacks do not last forever. Everyone has fears of one sort or another. Sometimes these fears seem so irrational or exaggerated, they are given a name, for example, mysophobia, (the fear of germs) or erythrophobia (the fear of blushing.) I saw someone recently...