what is cognitive behavior conceptualization of social phobia?
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Social phobia is a form of an anxiety disorder. The medical conceptualization is a problem with brain chemistry, preventing the appropriate messages from getting through. The cognitive behavioral conceptualization is a problem with "stinkin' thinkin'" preventing you from feeling more comfortable due to the unhelpful or irrational thoughts you have (like, "Nobody loves me, everybody hates me!").\n\nA common technique is the experiment: are other people socializing there? If so, logically, there's nothing to be afraid of.\n\nSeek an evaluation for the social phobia. You may want to try cognitive therapy and medication. Be sure to exercise - it's good for your brain as well as your body.
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I found this article.  I hope it helps. \n\nMy best friend Chris has a brain injury too.  She went to a place that specializes in brain injury and helped her. \n\nCBT is based on the Cognitive Model of Emotional Response.\n    Cognitive-behavioral therapy is based on the scientific fact that our thoughts\n    cause our feelings and behaviors, not external things, like people, situations,\n    and events.  The benefit of this fact is that we can change the way we think to \n    feel / act better even if the situation does not change. \n\n\nCBT is Briefer and Time-Limited.\n    Cognitive-behavioral therapy is considered among the "fastest" in terms of\n    results obtained.  The average number of sessions clients receive (across all\n    types of problems) is only 16.  Other forms of therapy, like psychoanalysis,\n    can take years.  What enables CBT to be briefer is its highly instructional\n    nature and the fact that it makes use of homework assignments.
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Hello there! I know how you feel as I have a fiancee with same problem. However, he is on therapy for something much worse so he also treated social anxiety....for a bit.....but i read a lot about it to be able to understand him and help him....all I can say now he is back to his university :), he is so much better!!! Definitly if you can, go to therapy it really helps, and you have to keep yourself in contact with social events so you don't get rasty too much :) as fear tends to grow in our minds for the things we are afraid of, and we are afraid of the things we don't know. So force yourself into it, and you will see after some time you will have more confidence, and you will see that it's not so scary as it seemed. In my "research" to help my fiancee I found this site that could be of a great help to you as well. It's a forum where you can chat with people with same problems as yours, just to know you are not alone...maybe you find out much more about your fear through them and their posts. www.socialanxietysupport.com\nGood luck!
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You can read all about it here:\n\nhttp://suedstudent.syr.edu/~ebarrett/ide621/cognitive.htm
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Theory of Mind: ideas that collectively explain other people's ideas, beliefs, desires, and behaviour.\n\nSo I guess that an abused child would feel fear and resentment towards adults or just men or just women in general.  I would imagine a child would be conviced that adults cannot be trusted and that people are cruel natured.  They will more than likely develop relationship anxiety in the future and be afraid to form intimate relationships.
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The fear of knowledge.\n\nLike all fears and phobias, epistemophobia is created by the unconscious mind as a protective mechanism. At some point in your past, there was likely an event linking knowledge and emotional trauma. Whilst the original catalyst may have been a real-life scare of some kind, the condition can also be triggered by myriad, benign events like movies, TV, or perhaps seeing someone else experience trauma.
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Fear of fear - Phobophobia
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Is he this way even meeting other people?  Some people have a phobia of socializing.  They don't know how to act around people and it stresses them out so much that they would rather avoid it.
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Overcoming Shyness and Social Phobia\nShyness, (sometimes inaccurately called 'social phobia'), affects most people at some time in their life. Young people in particular find overcoming shyness difficult as they improve their social skills. And for some, shyness seems to persist into adult life, almost as if it has become a 'habit'.\n\nShyness has its roots in self consciousness and usually dissipates as people mature and become more experienced. However, for some it can 'stick', and then action is required.\n\nAlthough most people think in terms of 'overcoming shyness', it is more likely that you will become comfortable in social situations by learning the strategies of self confidence along with social skills. Then, shyness is no longer the issue, as social nerves will melt away as a new 'habit' takes their place.\n\nShyness versus Social Phobia\n\nIt is my personal opinion that social phobia is too often diagnosed where people are simply experiencing natural shyness. It is perfectly natural to be a little timid in a situation where you don't yet know the 'rules', or what to do. In fact, most people experience some degree of nerves when, say going to meet friends, especially if it is somewhere they haven't been before, or someone new will be there.\n\nWe have to be very careful not to assume that there is something wrong with this. Social nerves are natural, as long as they don't get out of hand. Focusing on them and making them into a 'big thing' will only make matters worse.\n\nWhen learning about social situations, young people need the chance to find their own way, without being labeled with 'social phobia'. This is not to say that social phobia does not exist; I know it does because I have worked with people suffering from it. However, in the vast majority of cases, the solution is social skills training, and perhaps relaxation and rehearsal, rather than drugs.\n\nIf a person can maintain a degree of calmness in a situation, then they are much more likely to be able to learn about how the situation works. However, if they are highly anxious and internally focused, both their emotional state and focus of attention will make it more difficult to pick up on subtle social cues.\n\nThe other key point about overcoming shyness is that most of socialising is an unconscious process. That doesn't mean you should be asleep when you're doing it (tell that to people I speak to at parties ;-), it simply means that much of human communication is non-verbal. That is, 'it's not what you say, it's the way that you say it'.\n\nIf you become highly anxious, this will tend to focus your conscious mind on your immediate environment, getting in the way of those unconscious processes.\nTips For Overcoming Shyness\nCheck out the tips in the article on self consciousness, particularly the ones to do with where you focus your attention.\n\n    * Practise becoming fascinated by other people. Ask them about themselves, and concentrate when they answer you. Remember what they tell you about themselves so you can talk about it later, or on another occasion.\n\n\n    * Great socialisers make other people feel comfortable and interesting. How do they do that? By being really, genuinely interested in other people. If you are talking to someone and you feel boring or inferior, ask why that is. Is it really all your fault?\n\n\n    * Practise using fewer 'personal pronouns' when you talk about things. Sentences beginning with 'I' are not only a turn-off for the listener, they also keep the focus of attention on you, which increases shyness. (Note: Of course, part of friendship is giving away things about yourself, but only when you feel it is appropriate to do so.)\n\n\n    * Remember that the way to overcome shyness is to focus elsewhere. Like on imagining what it will be like to really enjoy the social event, on how it will feel to be fu
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Yes everyone's right it is Copycat.\nShe was not claustrophobic, She was agoraphbic: \nAgoraphobia an anxiety disorder which primarily consists of the fear of experiencing a difficult or embarrassing situation from which the sufferer cannot escape.\n\nAgoraphobics may experience severe panic attacks in situations where they feel trapped, insecure, out of control, or too far from their personal comfort zone. In severe cases, an agoraphobic may be confined not only to their home, but to one or two rooms, and they may even become bed-bound, or a recluse.
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Fear is about not having control. Phobias are irrational fears that are  very powerful and hard to get rid of.
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Being afraid is an evolutionary trait to keep you away from things that are generally dangerous or that increase your exposure to danger
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He's been wathcing to much "monk".\n\nVerminophobia - fear of germs\n\nOCD - Obessive compulsive disorder\n\nhypochondria - fear of illness \nBeing worried about your health all the time can be incredibly tiring.\n\nAnd when the fear and anxiety about possible symptoms and diseases gets out of hand, hypochondria is the diagnosis. \n\nMany people who worry excessively about their health spend a lot of time looking up books and searching the internet for information on symptoms in an effort to reassure themselves.\n\nBut this rarely works.\n\nMost symptoms can be interpreted in a huge variety of ways, from the mundane to the life threatening.\n\nHypochondria sufferers usually assume the worst, with the resulting feelings of anxiety and even panic.\n\nDoes this sound about right?
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I really want to help you with this question, but I don't think I have quite enough information.  Reoccurring thoughts leads me to believe there is at least a shadow symptom of obsessive compulsive disorder.  If I knew more about the situation I beleive I could help you better, but your problem is most likely from anxiety and you should be careful that you don't associate the feelings you have about the thoughts with something else.  This would cause a phobia.\n\nYou can try using positive or negative reinforcement in this situation.  That is rewarding yourself for not repeating the behavior or, encouraged moreso, punishing yourself when you do.  I don't mean anything harsh, but a simple rubberband snap or something like that can help you to slowly dismantle the habbit.  You can always go see a councelor as well, or even psychiatrist... If I knew more about the situation than my suggestions could be more pinpointed.\n\nDon't give into the people saying "tough it out" or anything like that.  That is tough to do and some problems are difficult for people who have not experienced something similar to comprehend.  Keep a positive attitude about it.\n\nI would like to be able to help more, but I can't... If you want to get in touch with me look me up through my avatar, I opened my email, just make sure to include something  about your message on here.
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You're referring to agoraphobia.  Read more about it here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agoraphobic
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POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE!\n\nTell yourself that yes, people are interested in you, they do want to hear what you have to say, and they want to hear it clearly and consisely. Practice at home. Rationalise the way you feel! Why are you scared, and what is the worst that could happen?\n\nIt is only by facing our fears that we eventually grow out of them.
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A phobia is an irrational fear.  Homophobia is the irrational fear of homosexuals.  Irrational because it is based in ignorance.