The following questions are related to ‘Phobia’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Licensed Psychologist.
Q: I am a junior in high school painfully living with social anxiety. I spend every day by myself. It’s like I am physically unable to talk to people. I get shaky, my heart beats rapidly, I turn bright red, and I am at a loss for words. I wish so badly to make friends […]
Q: My blood phobia started around age 7, when I stapled my finger by accident. Witnessing blood heavily gushing from my finger made me very sick and dizzy, so my mother took me to my family doctor. He told me that I had developed a phobia, so every time I see blood, I must lie […]
Q: I have social anxiety and I want to use exposure therapy, but I am confused. Is my goal to get used to the pain in social situations, or to associate social situations with pleasure? If it is the former, I take it I could give myself as big a challenge as I can muster […]
Q: I had the opportunity recently to go for a job, but they said that I had to do seven days of training in London. From where I live, it is only an hour by train, but there is a problem: I have never traveled on my own before. When I think about going somewhere […]
Q: Throughout my childhood I was home-schooled by an oppressive and domineering mother whom I bitterly resented, and I came to associate those feelings of resentment with my education. As a teenager, I dropped out of high school. I now need to study in order to get my GED (General Educational Development tests), but whenever […]
Q: Well, I have a lot of troubles. I feel overwhelmed; somehow I think that solving a part will start solving everything else. I know they are not a big deal but I feel so frustrated. I just finalized my career, I have a so-so job, and I am waiting for a bigger one. I […]
Q: I would like to know if I’m claustrophobic or not, and whether it’s serious or not. I’ve been ignoring it my whole life, but I’ve started to feel that maybe it’s not right. Well, I think it started when I was a child. I heard my mother talking about a man who was buried […]
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