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Carolyn Chambers Clark, Living Well with Anxiety. New York: HarperCollins, 2006, p. 89. Clark is a health educator and author of the book Living Well with Anxiety. “ The classic formation of a phobia is when someone had a dramatic experience. And you don’t have to be crossing a bridge when it collapses to have a bridge phobia. ” — Seymour Segnit, quoted in Dan Childs and Katharine Stoel Gammon, “Minneapolis Disaster May Spark ‘Bridge Phobia,’” ABC News, August 2, 2007. com. , a New York–based treatment center for phobia sufferers.

If the animal encounters a predator such as a snake, the amygdala assesses the snake as a threat. ” —David Amaral, quoted in Richard Restak, Poe’s Heart and the Mountain Climber: Exploring the Effect of Anxiety on Our Brains and Our Culture. New York: Harmony, 2004, pp. 93–94. Amaral is a neuroscientist and editor of the scientific journal Amygdala and director of the California Regional Primate Research Center at the University of California–Davis. “ A memory is preserved in a plastic state. You can sculpt it or update it.

Finally, a day later, Warhol asked some friends to take him to the hospital. The next morning, doctors removed his gallbladder—by now, it was gangrenous, meaning it was severely infected. Following ” 60 How Do Phobias Affect People? the operation, Warhol’s condition seemed to improve at first, but that evening he took a bad turn and died from a heart attack. Had Warhol sought the advice of a doctor soon after he started feeling pain in his side, he may have suffered far fewer complications from what should have been a routine medical procedure.

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