Zac Efron

With little more than a dozen words, actor Zac Efron has spiked interest in a relatively obscure mental disorder. In an interview with Men's Health, ...

And diagnoses can sometimes be a little bit arbitrary in that fact. "And the cognitive behavioural therapy is really just referring to the interrelationship between our thoughts, feelings and behaviours, which is represented within that agoraphobia cycle and targeting each of these areas with specific strategies to enable that cycle to change and to be able to participate more normally in those situations." "Treatment, regardless of the severity, and also regardless of whether they're meeting all of the criteria, or if they're sitting quite sub clinically, would be under a cognitive behavioural therapy," Ms Ackland said. "Then it will go all the way down to someone who continues to participate in certain situations, but does feel some level of out of normal range anxiety, or less enjoyment in these situations and might be reliant on certain strategies or people in order to continue functioning and we will consider that quite mild." "These are often clients that find it difficult to even leave their homes to the point of going to the letterbox, the distress upon doing so would be significant to the point potentially of panic. "So, in that way, we can self-diagnose to the extent that we look through that criteria and say, yes, I do that, yes, I think that, yes, I experienced this. "We certainly have seen clients post-COVID that note COVID as a time that seemed to be associated with a worsening of their symptoms, with an onset of symptoms that weren't there before and also a lapse in symptoms that had otherwise improved to be in a very good place pre-pandemic." "A diagnosis is a label that refers to a collection of symptoms. "We would still want that to be an improved experience to him." "And that might be the case for Zac Efron that he might find that he is reticent, to go into these situations, experiences more discomfort than he would like, maybe feels like his enjoyment is somewhat impaired, because he would prefer not to be there and want to leave. "And if it's something that they are still quite functional, and the distress is only mild, it actually wouldn't satisfy criteria for that diagnosis, not to discount that it might be something that's challenging for a client. "So, we don't want to discount the fact that someone might be having difficulty or challenge with some area of their life that could be improved.