Robotics: The Difference Between Fear And Phobias

A phobia is an extreme or irrational fear of something. Many phobias are in relation to one another. As people, we must realize that phobias cannot be fixed by ourselves. In order to help individuals that we may encounter, we must completely understand phobias. We cannot judge them for something they cannot help. To help an individual feel more at ease it is our job to know the causes, effects, impacts, and treatments of their phobia. This would help to completely understand the phobia and in the end, help us all to support each

Fear is one of the strongest emotions for every human being; like love or hate it can distort our mind, causing us to not think or act logically in different circumstances.

There are many advantages and disadvantages of fear. Mary Garner says, “Being extremely fearful of something can have negative effects on your body. It can

Everybody that you come into contact with on a daily basis will have a fear of something but a phobia can be defined as an irrational fear, this can provoke feelings of intense anxiety and initiate avoidance behaviour.

that might be dangerous. Phobia is different from fear because a phobia is being scared of

Research Question: What is the difference between fears and phobias, and when does a fear become a phobia.

Fear is something that large amounts of people have encountered at least once at some point in their lives. It has been said to have caused a variety of outcomes, many of them being largely negative. Therefore, it is a common human response to react to fear by counteracting it with positivity and/or success. The idea people have of what fear is depends on the person. In the article “How Fear Works”, for example, fear is defined as a “chain reaction in the brain that starts with a stressful stimulus and ends with the release of chemicals” (Layton 1). The website “Psychology Today” defines fear another way, calling it “a vital response to physical and emotional danger” ("Fear Paranoia”). There are several other definitions people have on the

A Phobia is a persistent, abnormal or irrational fear of a specific thing or situation that compels one to avoid the feared stimulus. Phobias are largely underreported. An estimated 6 million people

fear of nature, fear of life itself. Then there is fear which has to do with aspects of experiences,

Of the many disorders presented in chapter 15, I find phobias the most interesting. A phobia is an anxiety disorder. It is an intensive fear of something that has little to no danger at all. Phobias can range in many different varieties such as; acrophobia which is the fear of heights, arachnophobia which is the fear of arachnids otherwise known as spiders, and claustrophobia which is the fear of closed spaces.

Aviophobia the fear of heights, Thantophobia the fear of losing someone you love and Monophobia the fear of being alone.

All in all, phobia is fear but in the worst way. It has two categories specific and complex phobia. Agoraphobia and claustrophobia are types of phobia. Both agoraphobia and claustrophobia are happening in different situations. Also, it can be treated if the sufferers notice the symptoms. Otherwise, phobia has bad effect in social and personal live for sufferers too.

Phobias are irrational fears, so to be afraid of a cobra is not a phobia, but to be afraid of all snakes is. Most people are afraid of helplessness in the face of danger. Many are afraid of needles, the dark, drowning, and heights and so on. Think of the things that frighten you most and you can be sure many of your readers will fear them as well.

The newspaper article that I chose to read was about an entomologist who develops entomophobia. Weird right? A person who studies insects for a living developing a severe fear to insects. That’s the exact thoughts of the author, who is coincidentally the same person suffering from entomophobia. Jeffrey Lockwood starts off by describing how he got his phobia, by being in a gully full of grasshoppers. When he entered the gully, grasshoppers immediately jumped all over him, sending a signal of panic throughout his whole body. He originally thought that he would just forget

However, phobia can even cause people to risk their health. For example, the fear of dentists can leave people suffering from it willing to risk the health of their teeth in order to avoid having to go through an exam or procedure ( MacKay). When one knows about an upcoming confrontation, it can be the reason why one can not sleep or finds it hard to focus on important tasks. Due the change in daily routine, this unrealistic fear can interfere with the ability to socialize, work, or go about everyday life, brought on by and object, event or situation. But even animals have anxieties and phobias just as every human being (www.phobia-help.de). A phobia is an irrational fear, one knows that the object or situation, one is scared off, can not hurt one, but one is still afraid. A reason for this is that the human mind can not distinguish what is real and imaginary. When one has uncontrollable anxiety attacks, he loses rational judgement, leading to complicated problems. However, anyone can develop a phobia, men and women, teens and young adults, and elderly lady or a one-year-old boy (MacKay).