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A phobia is a persistent irrational fear of and wish to avoid a specific object, activity or situation. This sense of fear is out of proportion to the real danger, which the person recognizes as exaggeration. The person finds it difficult to control fear and will attempt to avoid the object or situation. A specific phobia can cause you considerable anxiety, and depends on whether you come across that particular trigger area often or not. Those suffering with a phobia feel anxious not only in the presence of an object or situation but when thinking about them.
There are so many phobias, in fact anyone can have a fear or phobia about anything in the entire world, some of which are, fear of heights, crowds, open or enclosed spaces, elevators, thunder and lightning, injury, hypodermic needles, illness. These phobias are a cause of the person’s perceptions on what could go wrong, or have experienced something that did go wrong, perhaps a previous trauma. The person then places more emphasis on the negative, building up into a gross fear that it will happen again. Sometimes it is a ‘learned response’ from their parent who had a specific fear or phobia.
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