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Includes extensive information on:

• Using breating and relaxation excercises to reduct stress and anxiety
• Resolve social phobia and low self esteem issues
• Teaching you how your body works when it gets overloaded by fear and anxiety

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You will discover how to:

• Dramatically decrease your feelings of fear, discomfort, and loss of control associated with speaking or performing in front of others
• Minimize your uncomfortable physical symptoms associated with fear
• Significantly reduce the dread of anticipating a speaking or performing event
• Eliminate your need to avoid situations of speaking or performing because of fear
• Create a relaxed and confident state of mind and body in preparing to speak or perform
• Break through your fear and create an inner peace around speaking and performing that you never imagined possible!
  

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Social phobia is essentially shyness.

However,  the disorder can also manifest itself as the cause of alcoholism (alcohol eases the pain of social interaction), eating disorders, and an obsessive concern with one's body parts. 

Marshall, a professor of psychiatry, first explores what may be the primitive origins of social phobia: the need for some members of a group to seem retiring in order to survive.

Then he discusses cases: the physically powerful man who can barely bring himself to speak; the ardent feminist who cannot, physically, assert herself; and the actress who panics before a performance. More universally, still, Marshall examines those seemingly ordinary, but often crippling, cases of people who are afraid to give oral presentations, talk to supervisors, or ask for dates or even make left turns, because pausing at a stoplight causes the drivers behind to be delayed and brings the socially phobic driver under an imagined scrutiny.

The happy news is that social phobia can be successfully treated most of the time, with cognitive and exposure therapies; however, the most effective treatments involve drugs such as the beta blockers, monoamine-oxidase inhibitors, and, of course, various drugs such as Prozac.

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Some of the more uncommon phobias:

• Hylophobia- fear of forest
• Agoraphobia- fear of no escape
• Claustrophobia- fear of tight spaces
• Placophobia- fear of tombstones
• Technophobia- fear of technology
• Sicophobia- fear of shadows
• Triskaidekaphobia- fear of the #13
• Pyrophobia- fear of fire
• Pnigerophobia- fear of smoldering
• Aerophobia- fear of fresh air
• Aelurophobia- fear of air sickness
• Ommetaphobia- fear of eyes
• Eremophobia- fear of being alone
• Abluthophobia- fear of bathing
• Acarophobia- fear of itching
• Acerophobia- fear of sourness
• Agyophobia- fear of crossing streets
• Odynephobia- fear of pain
• Arachnaphobia- fear of spiders
• Pogonophobia- fear of beards

If you would like to add more phobias to this list, please send us your suggestion to phobialist@fright.org

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