1. Phobias
Successful treatment usually involves a kind of cognitive-behavioral therapy called desensitization or exposure therapy, where psychologists gradually expose patients to what frightens them until the fear begins to fade. ... A social phobia responds to a relatively short-term therapy, like twelve to twenty meetings, depending on the severity of the condition. Socially-anxious people do not need years and years of therapy. ... Scientists have proven some medications effective when used with cognitve-behavioral therapy, about 80% effective. ... However, the patient can quench this in a short per...
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