Learning experience paper acrophobia

Introduction: Almost everyone has an irrational fear or two—of mice, for example, or your annual dental checkup. For most people, these fears are minor. But when fears become so severe that they cause tremendous anxiety and interfere with your normal life, they’re called phobias. A phobia is an intense fear of something that, in reality, poses little or no actual danger. Common phobias and fears include closed-in places, heights, highway driving, flying insects, snakes, and needles. However, we can develop phobias of virtually anything. Most phobias develop in childhood, but they can also develop in adults. If you

Everybody has a different perspective on fear and everybody is affected differently. The Mental Health Foundation stated that, “Fear can last for a short time and then pass but it can also last much longer and stay with us. In some cases it can take over our lives, affecting appetite, sleep, and concentration for long periods of time. Fear stops us from travelling, going to work or school, or even leaving the house.” This quote shows that fear does not affect people as much as it does to others. Although, fear can affect people for a long time which can cause them to stay isolated from others. There are many types of fears and some examples of fears include: the fear of the number 13, the fear of spiders, the fear of heights, and many others. There are hundreds of fears and many people have these fears and everybody is affected differently.

I have this fear of heights. Ever since I was little I have always had this fear. At the environmental field trip (EFT) in Trinity Pines the zipline was around 200 feet from the ground and overlooked a valley of fallen trees and vast green sagebrush.

     All people have fears, whether they like to admit it or not. Their goal should be to get over those fears, whether they are of heights, swimming, speaking in front of large crowds or even something more minor. Getting over the most basic fears can mean so much to people and push them further until they have accomplished a lot of things that they want to get done. For example, someone who is afraid of heights should pick something (like bungee jumping) that has to do with heights and try it just to prove to himself that he has the ability to do anything that he allows himself to do. Sure, what he does might scare him, but how else can he ever expect to get over his fear? Another example, if a man wanted to ask a woman out on a date, he should ask her instead of sitting around and waiting for the love of his life to fall into his lap. Everything a person does

Acrophobia, the fear of heights, affects around 5% of the general population. Often confused with vertigo the two share almost nothing in common besides the person’s fear of heights. The number of people with a fear of height is likely much higher than just 5% of the population but hasn’t been diagnosed as a phobia because it did not meet the criteria required to be diagnosed as a phobia. In the movie “Vertigo” Scotty has what is known as height vertigo, which is dizziness caused by being in high places.

Falling and Love: Vertigo The fear of heights is a common phobia; some have it worse than others. It is often rationalized by the fear of death and can be accompanied with dizziness or a sense of vertigo. Similarly, in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) the main character Scottie develops a fear of heights.

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 fine during the day listening to the flute but during the night hours everything was different (Korgeski, 2009). From this observation and the work of Hippocrates helped contribute to the creation of term phobia. The word phobia was formulated from

This fear is often caused by falling down stairs or a hill. And maybe that’s the reason she is scared about it. My parents or me are sure that she has never fallen down from stairs or from any heights or slopes. So this comes from the past life. This fear is carry forward here.

of this world; there is fear of heights, fear of spiders, fear of ants, fear of airplanes, fear of

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

Another common factor in the development and course of specific phobias are traumatic experiences. For example, patients who have been attacked by an animal can develop a specific phobia and become conditioned to fearing the animal. Patients who witness others experiencing a trauma are at risk of developing a specific phobia related to that trauma. This is due to the people experiencing the trauma becoming a behavior model for the patient that will be affected. For example, patients who watch as someone falls from a building may develop a specific phobia of heights or falling. Phobias with a traumatic origin can develop acutely, or, in other words, they can become phobias more suddenly than other phobias that develop more gradually. Changes

Oprah Winfrey is scared of heights. In February 2007, Oprah revealed she has also had a fear of chewing gum since childhood.

My fear of heights hasn’t bothered me and this far in 12 years of life it really hasn’t, but now it does. I go on rollercoasters, I do things with huge drops, and I love it. I only get scared when I feel insecure. Usually I put my foot up against the rollercoaster car or the seat in front of me to give me leverage. Not today, today there are no seats, just a cord. Keeping my attached and kept safe, not to be safe, but for my sanity.

Haven't you had a fear before. Could be snakes,heights or my old fear of roller coasters. So back in 7th grade at Mountain school there was a trip to Six Flags every year. I hated roller coasters I used to make up dumb reasons why I couldn't go on them. My dad was also afraid and my entire family knew he was making me hate them.

Thereby it is not completely clear, what the causes for phobia are. Phobia is often caused by something scary that happened earlier in somebody’s life, but not every one develop phobias after special experiences. An explanation for this could be that for some people certain parts of the brain and specific neural pathways are associated with phobias. It is