Phobia

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2 min readOct 13, 2024

Basically, a phobia is very serious and unnecessary fear of certain objects, places or events. That’s why it impacts your daily life mainly by causing distress or anxiety and by avoiding or minimizing the activity.

Types of Phobias

1. Social phobia: in social phobia involve Glosso_phobic, speak in public, fear and anxiety, social phobia, sadness.

2. Agoraphobia: Agoraphobia is panic to public places, markets and gathering place .

3. Classic phobia: classic phobia is afraid of closed space or small space.

4. Fear of water: Fear of heights.

5. Kind of Ophidio_phobia: Ophidio_phobia or Fear of snakes.

6. Aerophobia: It is the fear of flying.

7. Germo_phobe: Things like, for instance, they are a germ freak, they have a lot of germs.

8. Cyno_phobia: Fear of dogs.

Causes and risk factors

1. Genetics
2. Brain chemistry
3. Additional biological drive (physical and psychological abuse)
4. Learned behavior

*Symptoms*

1. Panic or anxiety
2. Avoidance behaviors
3. Sometimes referred to as physical symptoms: Sweating, this feeling like weak dizziness,

increased pulse
4. Naturally, I am capable of dealing with the illusionist thoughts or, for that matter, with a nightmare.

Treatment Options

1. According to the research, best treatment of phobia is CBT.

2. Exposure therapy
3. Relaxation techniques
4. Medications (anxiety drugs)

Overcoming phobias

1. Get professional help
2. Learn
3. Building supportive networks
4. Gradual elimination of fear inducers by an organized process

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