This fear often keeps people from leaving home or traveling. This group includes Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Social Phobia and Specific Phobia. Behaviors often include rage, self-mutilation, suicide attempts or threats, and intense, stormy relationships. The binges are followed by attempts to make up for eating so much by vomiting, using diuretics or laxatives, strict dieting, fasting or vigorous exercise. Symptoms may include slowed thinking, lack of pleasure, guilt, hopelessness, and problems with eating and sleeping.
Examples are anorexia and bulimia.
People with this disorder often lack self-esteem and need excessive admiration from others. Includes autism and Asperger's Disorder. In schizoaffective disorder there must be a period of time in which psychotic symptoms are experienced with an abnormal mood. This happens even though the person knows the fear is excessive or unreasonable.