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Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Phobias
• Panic attacks: anxiety symptoms seen in specific phobia may resemble panic attacks, but the stimulus in specific phobias or social phobias is clear, whereas panic attacks seem more random.
• Generalized anxiety disorder: difficult to distinguish from social phobia; but in social phobia, the cognitive focus is fear of embarrassment or humiliation, whereas in generalized anxiety disorder, the focus is more internal on the subjective sensations of discomfort.
• Panic attacks: anxiety symptoms seen in specific phobia may resemble panic attacks, but the stimulus in specific phobias or social phobias is clear, whereas panic attacks seem more random.
• Generalized anxiety disorder: difficult to distinguish from social phobia; but in social phobia, the cognitive focus is fear of embarrassment or humiliation, whereas in generalized anxiety disorder, the focus is more internal on the subjective sensations of discomfort.
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