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The 12 Most Common Phobias
Phobias are one of the most common type of anxiety disorders. A phobia is an obsessive, intense and extreme fear of an object, place, situation or creature.
People with phobias have developed an irrational apprehension about something they perceive as a danger. Phobias centre on our normal fear mechanism, so someone who has a phobia is perfectly normal except that they have learnt to get frightened at the wrong times or in the wrong places. The nervous system, which carries messages to and from the brain, is continually telling the brain of a phobia sufferer, that there is something to be frightened of when they are in their ‘trigger’ situations or places, even when there is no real danger present.
Getting Help for Phobias
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young children often rely on adults to protect them from immediate threat or danger more so than older children and teens. As a result, when young children are faced with a specific phobia they may cry,
tantrum, cling, freeze, or want to be picked up. Young children are more likely to be afraid of concrete and immediate situations such as storms, insects, animals, and clowns among others. In contrast, when faced with a feared item or situation, older youth are more likely to express feared thoughts or predictions such as “it will bite me,” or “i’m going to die.Answer the following questions. Please remember to highlight your answers. 1. What is something you are afraid of?a. How did that fear develop?2. Would you consider it a phobia?3. What is the difference between fear and phobia?how fearful are you? rate your answers to each of the following situations:0 - not afraid at all1 - a little uneasy2 - somewhat fearful3 - absolutely terrified( ) the plane takes off or lands( ) the plane you're on encounters turbulence( ) there's a spider on your bedroom wall( ) you're at a party that you don't know anyone( ) you have to give a speech in front of fifty people( ) you're about to be given an injection by your doctor( ) your doctor tells you that you need a surgery( ) you're driving in a bad rainstorm( ) you're the passenger in a car during a bad rainstorm( ) you're looking out the window from the top of a very high skyscraper( ) you're looking over the edge of a high cliff.