re a prisoner inside your own walls, cut off from everything and everyone on the outside."Not all phobias require treatment. Some can be ignored as long as the dreaded object or situation is avoided. Others may disappear on their own after a period of time, depending on the type of phobia and the person's age when it first appears. Yet some anxiety disorders can be so disruptive to a person's life that the sufferer should seek treatment as soon as he or she recognizes that there is a problem. Just as there are a number of different reasons behind the development of anxiety and phobias, there are many different approaches to treatment. However, doctors do not usually distinguish between phobias and anxiety when they treat a patient. Both conditions result from the same problem, fear. The goal of treatment is to deal with a patient's fear by finding out what is causing it and then trying to eliminate it. There is no single answer to the question of how to deal with fear-related problem. The symptoms and severity of the conditions vary so widely from person to person that therapists, psychiatrics. And other doctors usually prefer to use a variety of methods for treatment. A technique that works for one patient may not work for another and vice versa, so no single method has been proven better that the others....
