Namely, panic attacks, phobias, and obsessions. The overwhelming dread produces feelings of non-control and psychological paranoia. Panic attacks are proven biologically genetic through neurological brain activities. Anti-anxiety drugs such as Xanax decrease the anxiety and help regulate the imbalance of sodium lactate in the blood flow of the brain. Half of all phobias occur because of a traumatic incident stemming back from childhood.
Most children outgrow their fears, thus leading a normal life.
Some children repress their fears causing fixations that are unconsciously buried till they become adults, consequently, creating phobias. Behavioral therapy is most commonly used to treat phobias, notably, classical conditioning with an emphasis on systematic desensitization. Flooding is also used, in which a person with a cat phobia, for example, is asked to sit in a room full of cats. It is fair to point out that psychoanalysis and drugs do not work for phobias. Obsessions produce anxiety, such as checking and rechecking, washing hands constantly, and other anxiousness brought on by obsessive compulsive disorder.