Specific phobia

Fear Is To Gain There are currently 7.442 billion people in the world. 7.442 people in the world that are all experiencing fear. Accordingly, out of those people in the world, 19.2 have a specific phobia caused by fear. Which is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief in something or someone that's likely to be dangerous, threatful, or cause pain. Now, the way all people see the world is different. Just like all people have fear of different things. In other words, everyone once in their lifetime

clinical case of acrophobia can have intense emotional and physical responses at just the thought of being in a high place. Acrophobia is simply a severe fear of heights. Now being afraid of heights is a common and sometimes appropriate feeling. But the phobia part kicks in when you feel afraid in a safe environment such as inside a skyscraper. Acrophobia is treated with graded exposure therapy. (Horton, 2011) Fear of heights seems to have a simple physiological explanation, and there is a solution to it:

Background Phobias are a type of anxiety disorder that causes people to persistently become extremely irrational and strongly avoid/object a particular thing or situation when in their presence. The causes of phobias are still largely unknown, but what we do know is we all have fears in some shape or form; whether it be a common phobia such as: animals, insects, reptiles, the dark, acrophobia (heights), drowning, micro-phobia (germs), claustrophobia (closed spaces); or something less common such

Phobias are an everyday annoyance found all over the world. Almost every human has some form of a phobia. Phobias can be as small as being afraid of spiders, or as big as being afraid of dying. Research has proved that one in 10 people suffer from a mildly traumatic phobia, and one in five hundred people suffer from an extremely harmful phobia. Phobias are classified as an anxiety disorder. Due to the distress of attempting avoidance of these fears, they become a huge part of people’s everyday lives

Arachnophobia is the all encompassing fear of spiders. If you are like most people, you have at least a touch of the phobia. While you might not have an irrational fear like those who suffer with the condition, you likely don’t care much for the small, eight-legged arachnids. That makes you normal. Thankfully, though, in South Carolina there are very few spiders that can do you any actual harm. They are the most terrifying spiders found in the Carolinas: The Black Widow: You are probably familiar

Thanatophobia Everyone has at least one phobia, be it clowns, public speaking, or spiders. One common phobia is thanatophobia, or the fear of death. This is the second most common fear in the United States, with 68% of the population having thanatophobia (Fear / Phobia Statistics). But is the fear of death actually about death, or is it actually the fear of when you die? Or even how? In “The Pardoner’s Tale,” three young men who are described as foolish, drunken, and greedy hear of a friend’s life

Phobias have been in existence for many years. Phobias date back to the works of Hippocrates, a prehistoric Greek physician (Korgeski, 2009). The works of Hippocrates are still debated today. In The Seventh Book of Epidemics, one of the publications by Hippocrates, he studied an individual and he interpreted a condition that the person portrayed. The results of the observation were that the individual was petrified of the sound of a flute, if he wasn’t intoxicated. He noticed the individual was

in contemporary societies is the phobic disorder. Etymologically, the word phobia is the English equivalent of the Greek word “φοβία”, which means morbid, unreasonable, compulsive, and agonizing fear (Greek Language). The first noticed occurrence of a phobia happened approximately in the fourth century B.C., and was made known to us by Hippocrates, in his work The Seventh Book of Epidemics. However, the specific term “phobia” was not used until half a century later, when it was incorporated by the

Psychopharmacology and Mental Disorder- Phobias Psychopharmacology is the study of the mind and its behavior in regard to medication and mental disorders. Its focus is to find the best treatment options and medications for specific mental disorders, in such case as phobias. Phobias are an extreme form of anxiety that impacts the person’s everyday life, which is why the pursuit of better more effective medicinal alternatives is important. Phobias are a form of anxiety and a heightened sense of fear

have phobias. C. Credibility: My mum fear rainbow, and my friend scare butterfly. These are unusual cases, but spider phobia is common. I am interesting in phobias especially spider phobia, and I want to explore more information about this topic. D. Thesis Statement: Spider phobia is a powerful, irrational fear of the spider, and it is one of the most common fears.