Across
- 2. an intense, irrational fear of an object or situation that does not objectively justify such a reaction
- 5. patterns of adverse and disruptive reactions following a traumatic and threatening event
- 6. plagued by persistent, upsetting, unwanted thoughts
- 7. anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in an state of autonomic nervous arousal
- 8. led our ancestors to learn to fear certain things to preserve the species
- 9. but by a dog, now afraid of all dogs
Down
- 1. recurring, terrifying panic attacks
- 3. avoiding or escaping new feared stimuli helps us feel better, maintaining the new phobia or fear
- 4. ritualistic, repetitive behaviors or actions