LaurenSAD

1. **Describe the differences between specific phobias, social phobias, and agoraphobia.** People with specific phobias are basically having a strong irrational fear reactions to common places, situations, objects or even trying avoiding these things even though they know that there is nothing dangerous or threatening to them. On the other hand, social phobias are more about having a disorder or hard time with social relationships. It disrupts their social lives and disturbs them with their relationships with people. For agoraphobia, they avoid specific places where they had post/previous panic attacks in the fear of happening again. They avoid places where they feel that it will be difficult for them to escape and get out.

2. **What symptoms do children with generalized anxiety disorder have?** Children with generalized anxiety disorder are usually developed from stressful events to them such as beginning of school, moving school, or a loss of a parent. Their symptoms are usually the same as adults where they will panic or anxiety but is some times very difficult to diagnose based on their symptoms because it might just be a part of child's phase during the childhood not really a disorder.

3. **Why is it difficult for individuals with panic disorder to get a correct diagnosis?** It is knows to be difficult for individuals with panic disorder to get a correct diagnosis because of the variety and the similarity of panic disorder's symptoms with heart diseases, thyroid problems, and breathing disorders. They usually start believing that the illness is a life threatening thing and sometimes does not even know that their illness has a real and curable disorder.

4. **Describe the methods used to treat anxiety disorders.** There are several different ways to treats anxiety disorders. One is the CBT method or the cognitive behavioral therapy where the patient is involved in his or her own recovery by teaching ways or methods to handle or control their anxiety. Also the cognitive therapy tries the patient to separate the realistic from unrealistic thoughts to change or fix the unwanted thought patterns. But the behavioral therapy focuses on getting the behavior under control by letting or making the patient be exposed to uncomfortable and difficult situations. Relaxation simply like it is tries to make the patient deal effectively with stress and different physical symptoms through ways like breathing and exercising.