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What is a phobia?

A phobia is an irrational (unrealistic), persistent fear of a specific situation, object or activity. The fear that the phobic person experiences is so intense that it keeps them from wanting to enter situations in which they will come into contact with the fear. The intense fear can be experienced as a panic attack, leading the person to avoid the object or situation to a greater extent. When avoiding the stimulus, the individual may feel a relief or an absence of anxiety symptoms all together and promote the reaction to avoid having to feel those terrifying symptoms again.

Generally, people suffering from a specific phobia, will indeed try and avoid the feared stimulus as much as possible. An individual may change their job - just to avoid riding the elevator! By avoiding the feared stimulus, the person's life can become hard to manage and other issues can emerge.

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The three types of phobias:

•Specific Phobia      •Social Phobia •Agoraphobia

Specific Phobia: An extreme fear of a stimulus in which there are generally no rational or realistic reasons to fear the stimulus (generally). The person usually knows that their fear is irrational or excessive, yet still feel the fear and behave accordingly. About 8% of the population has a diagnosable form of a specific phobia. It is more common in women than it is in men.

A simple specific phobia is a classification of the most common of the wide variety of phobias. (E.g. Heights, bees, sharks, illness, spiders, etc.) These simple phobias could have developed because of a real situation you had experienced, such as swimming in an area where there was a shark, a severe bee attack, and so forth. A simple phobia does not usually interfere with daily functioning, but if a person starts to avoid situations in a less rational way (such as avoiding the beach because of fear of a shark attack or avoiding going outside because of fear of bees) the fear may be diagnosed as a phobia.

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