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Natural Cures for Phobias
Phobias are situations of marked anxiety caused by a specific stimulus. The sufferer may not be anxious at most times but suffer an anxiety or panic attack when faced with a situation to which they have developed a response. Thus in agoraphobia there is a fear of open spaces or more properly areas outside a "safe" environment. A phobia may relate to flying, animals (spiders being a particularly common phobia), social situations (social phobia) and many other things.
Phobia Treatments
Modern Western Medicine
Certain selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) such as Citalopram are licensed for phobias but have noticeable side effects. Psychological therapies such as hypnosis are effective but hard to access in most health services.
Complementary Therapy
Please help us to help you by letting your practitioner know about Natural Cures from Shared Care so that they might contact us (email to:- editor(at)shared-care.com) with their evidence to add their therapy to this list.
The therapies/educational systems shown below have been noted as helpful for Phobias
| Hypnosis |
| Emotional Freedom Techniques |
| BodyTalk |
| Acupuncture |
| Biofeedback |
| Traditional Chinese Medicine |
Please also check out Approaches Individual to the Practitioner for lists of those whose approaches don't fall into any specific category.
The following practitioners have indicated that they have a special interest in Phobias
Please click on the "more.." button for fuller details.
| Dr. | Alexander R. | Lees | British Columbia | Canada | |
| Mr. | John | Clark | County Durham | Great Britain | |
| Mr. | K | Chopping | London | Great Britain | |
| Mrs. | Puja | kanth | Tamil Nadu | India | |
| Mr. | Craig | McLaughlin | Limerick | Ireland | |
| Ms. | Rehana | Webster | Waikato | New Zealand | |
| Dr. | Marta | Hiatt | California | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Ellen | Kratka | Connecticut | United States of America | |
| Mrs. | Alexandra | Rose | Georgia | United States of America | |
| Mr. | Suryanarayana | Chennapragada | New York | United States of America | |
| Mr. | Jack | Elias | Washington | United States of America | |
Natural Cures for Phobias Blog
Add your contributions to the "Natural Cures for Phobias" blog for this page. The button is at the bottom of the page or follow this link to the blog for this page. These can be absolutely anything related to the topic of this page that needs an answer from other members of the community, or a space for you to complain about or comment on anything related to that topic.
Phobias Support Groups
The home country of the group is listed. Most will provide more information, advice, contacts and help wherever you live:-
| Grow in Australia | Australia | National |
| Sane Australia | Australia | National |
| Emetophobia UK | Great Britain | National |
| No Panic | Great Britain | National |
| Phobics Society | Great Britain | National |
| Scottish Association for Mental Health | Great Britain | Scotland |
| StressWatch Scotland | Great Britain | Scotland |
| Grow in Ireland | Ireland | National |
| Agoraphobic Support Group (Canterbury) | New Zealand | Christchurch |
| The Phobic Trust of New Zealand | New Zealand | National |
| Agoraphobics in Motion | United States of America | National |
| Emotions Anonymous | United States of America | National |
| Grow in America | United States of America | National |
| Phobics Awareness | United States of America | National |
| Recovery, Inc | United States of America | National |
| Support4Hope | United States of America | National |
Please email editor(at)shared-care.com with the name and URL of your suggestions for additional groups.
Places to Eat and Stay, Tourist, Town and Travel Guides
These sections are designed to provide help in finding restaurants, cafes, hotels, resorts, towns, beaches, travel companies and so on that are user friendly for our communities.
Shopping Zone
There are lots of good things related to Natural Cures for Phobias in the stores accessed below. Please have a look.
Editors Choice
Not all good things come from Amazon. The following are my choices of goodies that I have come across or in which I have had some involvement. If you want to add anything please email me (editor(at)shared-care.com) with details
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | Gluten free cookbook; lots of good recipes |
| Surprisingly Gluten Free | |
| Dr Michaels New Horizons | Self help tapes from No Panic |
| No Panic | |
| Lumie Sunlamp | Sunlamp for SAD (works for me! (ed)) |
| Lumie | |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | Free downloadable book about treating migraine |
| The FISH Plan for Migraine | |
| The FISH Plan for Irritable Bowel Syndrome | Free downloadable book about treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
| The FISH Plan for IBS | |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | Necessary dietary reading for everyone |
| Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet | |
| The Complete Guide to Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Cooking | Great cookbook by Glenis Lucas. Introduction by me! |
| The Complete Guide to Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Cooking | |
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