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    Phobia: The Word Itself Comes From The Greek Word Phobos, Which Means Fear or Horror

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    Phobias are irrational and excessive fears caused by certain stimuli like heights, social situations, or blood. They range from annoying to disabling and interfere with daily life. Phobias are often genetic but can develop after distressing events. Common phobias include fear of heights (acrophobia), social interactions (social phobia), public speaking (glossophobia), tight spaces (claustrophobia), and blood or injury (hemophobia). Symptoms include panic, sweating, fainting and avoidance of feared stimuli. Factors like genetics, age, gender and socioeconomic status influence risk for developing specific phobias.

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    Phobias are irrational and excessive fears caused by certain stimuli like heights, social situations, or blood. They range from annoying to disabling and interfere with daily life. Phobias are often genetic but can develop after distressing events. Common phobias include fear of heights (acrophobia), social interactions (social phobia), public speaking (glossophobia), tight spaces (claustrophobia), and blood or injury (hemophobia). Symptoms include panic, sweating, fainting and avoidance of feared stimuli. Factors like genetics, age, gender and socioeconomic status influence risk for developing specific phobias.

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    Phobias are irrational and excessive fears caused by certain stimuli like heights, social situations, or blood. They range from annoying to disabling and interfere with daily life. Phobias are often genetic but can develop after distressing events. Common phobias include fear of heights (acrophobia), social interactions (social phobia), public speaking (glossophobia), tight spaces (claustrophobia), and blood or injury (hemophobia). Symptoms include panic, sweating, fainting and avoidance of feared stimuli. Factors like genetics, age, gender and socioeconomic status influence risk for developing specific phobias.

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    Phobias are irrational and excessive fears caused by certain stimuli like heights, social situations, or blood. They range from annoying to disabling and interfere with daily life. Phobias are often genetic but can develop after distressing events. Common phobias include fear of heights (acrophobia), social interactions (social phobia), public speaking (glossophobia), tight spaces (claustrophobia), and blood or injury (hemophobia). Symptoms include panic, sweating, fainting and avoidance of feared stimuli. Factors like genetics, age, gender and socioeconomic status influence risk for developing specific phobias.

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    PHOBIA

    The word itself comes


    from the Greek word
    phobos, which means
    fear or horror
    A phobia is an excessive and irrational fear
    reaction. If you have a phobia, you may
    experience a deep sense of dread or panic
    when you encounter the source of your fear.
    The fear can be of a certain place, situation, or
    object. Unlike general anxiety disorders, a
    phobia is usually connected to something
    specific.

    The impact of a phobia can range from


    annoying to severely disabling. People with
    phobias often realize their fear is irrational, but
    they’re unable to do anything about it. Such
    fears can interfere with work, school, and
    personal relationships.
    Causes:
    Genetic and environmental factors can cause phobias.
    Children who have a close relative with an anxiety disorder
    are at risk of developing a phobia. Distressing events, such as
    nearly drowning, can bring on a phobia. Exposure to confined
    spaces, extreme heights, and animal or insect bites can all be
    sources of phobias.
    Types of phobias:

    01 02 03

    Acrophobia Social phobia Glossophobia


    Social phobia is also referred to This is known as performance
    This is the fear of heights.
    as social anxiety disorder. It’s
    People with this phobia avoid anxiety, or the fear of speaking
    extreme worry about social
    mountains, bridges, or the in front of an audience. People
    situations and it can lead to self-
    higher floors of buildings. with this phobia have severe
    isolation. A social phobia can be
    so severe that the simplest physical symptoms when they
    Symptoms include vertigo,
    interactions, such as ordering at a even think about being in front
    dizziness, sweating, and feeling
    restaurant or answering the of a group of people.
    as if they’ll pass out or lose
    telephone, can cause panic. <Glossophobia treatments can
    consciousness. People with social phobia often go include either therapy or
    out of their way to avoid public medication.
    situations.
    Other types of phobia:

    04 05

    Claustrophobia Hemophobia
    This is a fear of enclosed or This is a phobia of blood or
    tight spaces. Severe injury. A person with
    claustrophobia can be hemophobia may faint when
    especially disabling if it they come in contact with
    prevents you from riding in their own blood or another
    cars or elevators. person’s blood.
    Symptoms of phobia
    Risk factors
    People with a genetic predisposition to anxiety may be at high risk of developing a
    phobia. Age, socioeconomic status, and gender seem to be risk factors only for
    certain phobias. For example, women are more likely to have animal phobias.
    Children or people with a low socioeconomic status are more likely to have social
    phobias. Men make up the majority of those with dentist and doctor phobias.
    Nyctophobia: This phobia is a fear of the nighttime or darkness. It
    almost always begins as a typical childhood fear. When it progresses
    past adolescence, it’s considered a phobia.
    Does anyone suffer from
    a phobia?

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