DSM-V

• What do sufferers show?

  marked and persistent fear of a specific object or situation
• what does exposure to the stimulus NEARLY ALWAYS produce?

  a rapid anxiety response
• what is the fear of the phobic object or situation like?


  EXCESSIVE
• how is the phobic stimulus treated?

  • either avoided OR
  • Responded to with great anxiety.
• What do the phobic reaction interfere SIGNIFICANTLY with?

  with the sufferers working or social life, or he/she is very DISTRESSED about the phobia