phobias

Examines the symptoms, causes, and effects of anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder, separation anxiety, phobias, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder, and looks at available treatments and the outlook for the future.

Distinguishes between normal and unreasonable fears and presents suggestions for overcoming phobias.

Presents ten short stories by well-known authors featuring teenagers with phobias, including fear of gaining weight, fear of clowns, and fear of cats.

When Bee aces her report card she claims her reward, which is a trip to Antarctica, but her mother, Bernadette, disappears due to her intensifying allergy to Seattle and people in general, which has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands and Bee uses emails, invoices, school memos, private correspondence, and other evidence to try and understand why her mother has left.

Ten-year-old Jamie Jo's fear of bees keeps her inside most of the time, but a series of events that begins when her mother is excluded from the church choir brings about many changes, including new friendships and greater trust in God.

Fifteen-year-old Will Besting, plagued by crippling phobias, is sent by his doctor to Fort Eden where he and six other teens are treated by spending time in fear chambers where they confront their worst nightmares, and although they all emerge feeling emboldened, in time unexplained aches and pains make them wonder what is really happening to them.

Examines what phobias are and how they differ from ordinary fears, how to cope with normal anxiety, and how to identify when and from whom to seek help.

Twelve-year-olds Madeleine, Theo, and Lulu, and thirteen-year-old Garrison, are sent to a remote Massachusetts school to overcome their phobias, but tragedy strikes and the quartet must work together--with no adult assistance--to face their fears.

Asher Machnik is a teenage boy cursed with a beautiful androgynous face who has developed an intense fear of being touched because of the abuse he receives from others. Ash is befriended by Eulalie Mason, a lonely, tough-talking lesbian from school, a fellow artist who sees and accepts him for who he is.

Researches phobias, the causes, how phobias affect people and how people can overcome their phobias.