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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THE PHOBIA LIST

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Feel free to browse the alphabetical phobia list:

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