A phobia is a senseless, abnormal, specific fear. A person experiencing a phobia recognises that no actual danger is imminent. Phobias may be so compelling as to force a person to alter his/her way of life in order to avoid circumstances that trigger the phobia.
A phobia can be an animate object, an inanimate object, something living or it can be heights, darkness closed spaces, infections, water and open spaces. .
Phobia comes from the Greek word phobos, which means extreme fear or terror. .
Phobia sufferers can be of any age but it is believed that a phobia is only properly .
determined when a child is above the ages of five or six. .
Phobias make people behave in an irrational way. .
PANICKING .
There was a recent case where a panicking elderly woman woke up members of her entire household out of their sleep in the early hours of the morning, in order for them to call the fire brigade to remove a slug that she saw in her kitchen. .
FRANTICALLY .
There was another case of a young man, who frantically ran out of his house and spent the night in his car when he sighted a mouse his house. It was not until someone thoroughly checked his house in the morning, to see if it the mouse .
had gone, that he retuned home from his cold car. .
It has been estimated that nearly eight per cent of all adults have a phobia of some sort. Recent surveys have been carried out and have shown that only one per cent of the population regard their phobias as "interfering seriously" with their life-styles.
Phobias In "Phobia," Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2004, A phobia is an intense and persistent fear of a specific object, situation, or an activity. ... There are many common symptoms of a phobia. ... The person does not consciously know what the original fear is. ... There are three different categories of phobias. ... The third category of phobias is social phobias. ...
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Phobias A phobia is when someone has an irrational fear of an object such as fear of heights, fear of snakes, and other things. The name phobia is derived from Phobos, who is the Greek god of fear and most phobias have a Greek name. Most all phobics know what causes their fear and they know how to solve their phobia by just staying away from a certain object or place. ... No one knows just what causes them, though they seem to run in families so they must be passed on from generation to generation. ... Freud was not the only person to study phobias, others believed that phobias, like other...
What You Can Change; The Treatments for Phobias Abstract In this paper I will cover many topics that are associated with the word phobia. ... What You Can Change; The Treatments for Phobias Imagine a football player, known for his pure brutality on the field, running to the locker room when a mouse scurries across his feet during a game, a professional stuntman who willingly risks his life everyday for a paycheck, but refuses to fly in an airplane, or a surgeon scared of being trapped in a fire, will not enter the operating room until he personally checks every emergency exit on the ...
Phobias Phobias are a very common disorder in the United States these days. ... There are three kinds of phobias: simple phobia, social phobia, and panic attacks. ... What causes phobias? ... The big spiders are what really got to me. ... When I try to remember what makes me so afraid of spiders, I think of the time when my best friend had a sleep-over. ...
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Phobias There are many different types of phobias. The people in the movie talk about a few of their phobias. ... (Phobias: Prisoners of panic) A phobia is a term that refers to a group of symptoms brought on by feared objects or situations. ... Kathleen has been scared of public speaking for a while because she was afraid of what people would think of her. ... Also they all took similar steps to cure the phobia. ...
In my case, the two major symptoms that affect me are a simple phobia and a few stress management problems. You may be thinking what is a simple phobia is; well here is your answer. ... People may think my phobia is not serious at all, but cats are my worst nightmares. ... They are simple phobia and stress management problems. My simple phobia may not seem too scary for all people, but to me it is a very big deal. ...
