Phobia is an irrational and excessive fear of an object or situation. Usually phobia involves a sense of endangerment or a fear of harm. Phobic symptoms can occur through exposure to the fear object or situation, or sometimes simply thinking about the feared object can lead to a response. Symphtoms associated with phobia are: dizziness, breathlessness, nausea, a sense of unreality, fear of dying.
There are three types of phobias: Social phobias—fear of social situations; Agoraphobia—fear of being trapped in an inescapable place or situation; Specific phobias—fear of a specific object (such as snakes). Specific phobias are divided as the natural environment - fear of lightening, water, storms, etc; animal - fear of snakes, rodents, spiders, etc; medical - fear of seeing blood, receiving injections, visiting a doctor, etc; situational - fear of bridges, leaving the home, driving, etc.
So, if you feel a chill when you walk by a cemetery at night, do you have coimetrophobia? A little bit of fear is not a phobia. But a person who feels an overwhelming, irrational fear of a certain object or situation may have a condition known as a specific phobia.
People with specific phobias often know that their fears are irrational, but this logic does not prevent them from experiencing high levels of anxiety and even panic attacks when facing, or thinking about facing, their phobias.
Actually phobia can be treated. There are a lot of ways of treating it. For instance, exposure treatments or counter-conditioning. In exposure treatment a patient is exposed to the frear object in order to learn how to coupe with the fear. I counter-conditioning treatment patient is taught to the new reponse to the frear object.
Phobia is a very wide spreaded disorder. As ilustration of this I would mention few famous people who have or had some kind of specific phobias. For example, boxing champion Muhammad Ali suffer from fear of flying, or aviophobia (also known as aerophobia). Tennis star Andre Agassi is arachnophobic, or has a fear of spiders. Adolf Hitler was claustrophobic. Napoleon Bonaparte, who was the emperor of France, suffered from ailurophobia, a fear of cats. There are only few examples.
There are three types of phobias: Social phobias—fear of social situations; Agoraphobia—fear of being trapped in an inescapable place or situation; Specific phobias—fear of a specific object (such as snakes). Specific phobias are divided as the natural environment - fear of lightening, water, storms, etc; animal - fear of snakes, rodents, spiders, etc; medical - fear of seeing blood, receiving injections, visiting a doctor, etc; situational - fear of bridges, leaving the home, driving, etc.
So, if you feel a chill when you walk by a cemetery at night, do you have coimetrophobia? A little bit of fear is not a phobia. But a person who feels an overwhelming, irrational fear of a certain object or situation may have a condition known as a specific phobia.
People with specific phobias often know that their fears are irrational, but this logic does not prevent them from experiencing high levels of anxiety and even panic attacks when facing, or thinking about facing, their phobias.
Actually phobia can be treated. There are a lot of ways of treating it. For instance, exposure treatments or counter-conditioning. In exposure treatment a patient is exposed to the frear object in order to learn how to coupe with the fear. I counter-conditioning treatment patient is taught to the new reponse to the frear object.
Phobia is a very wide spreaded disorder. As ilustration of this I would mention few famous people who have or had some kind of specific phobias. For example, boxing champion Muhammad Ali suffer from fear of flying, or aviophobia (also known as aerophobia). Tennis star Andre Agassi is arachnophobic, or has a fear of spiders. Adolf Hitler was claustrophobic. Napoleon Bonaparte, who was the emperor of France, suffered from ailurophobia, a fear of cats. There are only few examples.
Many people all over the world suffer from this quite strange and irrational disorder. But it can be treated.
Information: http://psychology.about.com/od/phobias/Phobias.htm
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