Subject not only refers to a chat a moral lesson from friends or family or even recurrent theme of a session of psychotherapy, has been the concern of professionals who work with anxiety disorders. The high number of people who recognize their physical and emotional problems but have no strength to face the problem facing a health professional, especially in the medical field, is calling attention to the increased fear of doctors. Fears (phobias), which are independent, have six things in common: ° Trail of the object of fear (such as avoiding high places or stay near the windows or balconies, venomous animals) · Anxiety (symptoms of nervousness and insomnia) · Trauma (the object of fear associated with bad experiences lived by himself or viewed from outside, for example, that people began to be afraid of flying after excessive exposure to air disasters in Brazil) · Negligence (attitudes to avoid talking about the object of fear or of being in the presence of, for example, a person afraid to lift, regardless of the time prefers to use the stairs) · Panic (lack of concentration and loss of control) · Malaise (physical presence of troublesome symptoms such as crying and excessive sweating) According Mariângela Gentil Savoia, a psychologist in outpatient anxiety, Hospital das Clinicas in Sao Paulo in a report to the newspaper those aspects of the fear of doctors behave as follows: TRAIL: avoid consultations and examinations to discover not a serious illness ANXIETY: pain and insomnia before going to a medical appointment TRAUMA: bad experiences in the past related to health service NEGLIGENCE: constant postponement of queries, even with symptoms and pain PANIC: difficulty concentrating in the office accompanied by feelings of loss of control Malaise: the patient may sweat, tremble, cry, or even refuse to enter the office Professionals who fail to alert nervousness, insomnia and feelings of paralysis are symptoms of specific phobia and the doctor takes away the delayed diagnosis. It is observed that with the increase of cancer diagnosis, previously unknown, but now present in everyday life through television and life experiences of artists and celebrities, has caused people to avoid and clinical laboratory tests was the fear to hear a diagnosis of cancer. According to estimates by the World Health Organization there are approximately 5 million people suffering with different disorders among them, most with anxiety disorders where all those suffering with some kind of fear. To help people to measure the degree and the need for outside help to deal with fear, the U.S. site 'Do you need therapy? "Prepared some statements related to specific fears (height, water, crowd among others) and those on social phobias (go party, shopping or simply walking the streets): 1. I fear excessive or unreasonable of some object or situation 2. I am very afraid of something, and my fear interferes with my ability to develop my work or drive my normal way of life 3. I'm very afraid of an object or situation, and when I expose myself to this stimulus I panic 4. I am afraid of getting close to others in certain situations and I realize that my fears may be irrational or excessive 5. In certain social situations, I feel extreme anxiety 6. We feel great in one or more situations where I need to interact with others. Respond positively to some of these issues is a strong indicator that the person needs help and if there are four positive responses is time to consult a psychologist, therefore, probably the quality of life is seriously compromised
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