@suzianne saidSpecific Phobias in Women
@Rajk999
"Sounds like something a woman would say."
Sounds like something a man would say.
January 16, 2020 / By / Family Resources, Mental Health, Personal Resources, Women's Mental Health
Specific phobia is a medical term used to describe a persistent, irrational fear-based reaction to things or situations that have a minor or nonexistent potential to cause harm. Various people can develop this type of response to almost anything. However, some phobic reactions occur much more frequently than others. Women and girls develop specific phobias much more frequently than men and boys. The types of phobias females develop also tend to differ from the phobias found in males. The presence of a specific phobia may increase a woman’s risks for a variety of other mental health problems. Here we take a dive into specific phobias in women.
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Frequency in Women
Women develop specific phobias roughly twice as frequently as men. In addition, women tend to predominate in certain phobia categories. For instance, women account for anywhere from 75 to fully 90 percent of all people who have phobias to specific situations, specific animals or specific events that occur in wild or natural environments. Women also account for as much as 70 percent of all people who have phobic reactions to needles or injections. Men, on the other hand, have a greater tendency to display symptoms of disease-, germ- and height-related phobias.
Risks for Other Disorders
Statistically speaking, people with specific phobias develop certain other mental health problems including depression, generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and most other forms of medically serious anxiety-more frequently than people without specific phobias. According to a retrospective review published in 2010 in the journal Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, when people develop specific phobias and other psychiatric problems, the phobia typically appears first. This means that the presence of a social phobia may act as a trigger or risk factor for many of the most common mental disorders. In addition to drawing general conclusions about specific phobias and later mental health, the review in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology also examined the link between specific phobias and women’s mental health in particular. The authors of the review concluded that, when compared to women without specific phobias, women with specific phobias have roughly twice the chance of developing generalized anxiety disorder, some other form of anxiety-related illness, or some form of depressive illness.
https://www.promises.com/addiction-blog/specific-phobias-in-women/#:~:text=Women%20and%20girls%20develop%20specific,of%20other%20mental%20health%20problems.
@fmf saidMe? I doubt that. He does not dispute facts. Also I cannot understand why people need a scientific study to prove, show or demonstrate things that can easily be proved by just being observant and aware of people around you. I just guessed that women are more prone to phobias and because of the comments I Googled it and it came up.
Ghost of a Duke is going to come down on you like a ton of bricks for this.
Are they also saying excessive phobias lead to mental health problems ? Well thats an interesting one... lol.
@rajk999 saidLike me, he doesn't condone people diagnosing mental health problems based on forum conversations and, although he chased me around for 70+ pages on two SF threads recently for using the everyday word "delusion", he has never once confronted any of his private club members, like Suzianne, Kevin Eleven, and Very Rusty, for weaponizing mental health on the forums.
Me? I doubt that. He does not dispute facts.
@rajk999 saidI don't think this virtual diagnosis works. Too small a proportion of the women I have known have corresponded to the characteristics and attributes your cited article described so its claims do not work as generalisations to my way of thinking. Besides, a diagnosis that has any validity would have to be made by a trained psychologist or psychiatrist, and they would insist on meeting the subject in person.
[i]Specific Phobias in Women
https://www.promises.com/addiction-blog/specific-phobias-in-women/#:~:text=Women%20and%20girls%20develop%20specific,of%20other%20mental%20health%20problems.
@fmf saidHave you confronted any of your private club members (aka Dive) for weaponizing mental health on the forums?
Like me, he doesn't condone people diagnosing mental health problems based on forum conversations and, although he chased me around for 70+ pages on two SF threads recently for using the everyday word "delusion", he has never once confronted any of his private club members, like Suzianne, Kevin Eleven, and Very Rusty, for weaponizing mental health on the forums.
Or are you going to claim he doesn't do such a thing?
@ghost-of-a-duke saidIt's a response to Suzianne and it's of a piece with his other misogynistic remarks.
For linking to a published study?
You really are a strange fellow.
@ghost-of-a-duke saidHe doesn't.
Have you confronted any of your private club members (aka Dive) for weaponizing mental health on the forums?
@ghost-of-a-duke saidOn the other hand, you spent hours yesterday trying to weaponize Executioner Brand's purported schizophrenia against me in a bizarre attempt to score forum points.
Oh dear.
@fmf said6. Has a tendency to misremember conversations held the day before.
On the other hand, you spent hours yesterday trying to weaponize Executioner Brand's purported schizophrenia against me in a bizarre attempt to score forum points.
Please stop weaponizing mental health and provoking vulnerable users of the site.
@ghost-of-a-duke saidThread 198208 pages 8-18.
6. Has a tendency to misremember conversations held the day before.
Please stop weaponizing mental health and provoking vulnerable users of the site.
You were desperately trying to weaponize Executioner Brand's supposed mental health issues. It was a disgraceful gimmick on your part.
@ghost-of-a-duke saidIt's still there.
Has a tendency to misremember conversations held the day before.
@fmf saidThis word ...misogynistic ... is confusing. Not sure what it means. Its like Ismomaphobia, homophobia. These words have really become meaningless recently since everyone throws everything, that they dont like, in there.
It's a response to Suzianne and it's of a piece with his other misogynistic remarks.
I say something about Hamas terrorists .. thats Islamophobia.
So what exactly did I say that is misogynistic? Its a fact that women in general are prone to more phobias than men. Making such a statement is the truth. Truth can never be misogynstic.