Phobic Summary And Analysis

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

Just imagine for a moment that you have a cynophobia or the fear of dogs, would this be how you would feel. Driving down the road the oil light comes on. "I must stop the car to add more oil or I will damage the car engine. This looks like a good place to pull over. I'll just stop in front of this house. The oil is in the trunk, so I'll pop the top first, then get the oil out of the trunk. OK, I have the oil, but what if there is a dog at this house. Hurry, I have to hurry. A dog might come running out and bark at me any minute. Just get the oil in the engine. I can't my hands are shaking. Don't worry, there is no dog. Just get the oil in the engine. I don't care

A recognizable key point in Verghese’s story is the phobia of becoming infected with an STD. In this small town, STDs like HIV and AIDS are spreading. Many of the townspeople believe that this disease is extremely contagious. It's to the extent where no one, not even medical doctors, maintains the desire to associate with those kinds of patients. The people have a phobia against an STD victim and believe that if any contact is made, whether it'd be physical or non-physical, they would catch the same disease.

A phobia is a persistent and unreasonable fear of an object or situation which can initiate an anxiety response such as a panic attack or crying and freezing in children – the response is out of proportion to the threat posed. The sufferer is aware that their fear is unreasonable, causing distress, but also distinguishing the disorder from schizophrenia and psychosis. The anxiety response includes dizziness and difficulty breathing and is maladaptive as avoidance or distress in response to the feared situation or object interferes considerably with the individual’s daily routine. For those under 18, symptoms have to be present for at least 6 months and cannot be better explained by the criteria of another

Universal human phobia is close interpersonal violence that a person experiences throughout their life. This phobia is not brought upon by mother nature, but by the actions of another human being. In the book, the authors explained how people were not angry if a tornado sent them to the hospital and destroyed their house. Yet when a gang beats them and destroys their house, it’s personal and the victims are angry. The actions of others that causes people to be scared is the concept of universal human phobia.

In this paper I will be describing phobias and fear, but more specifically coulrophobia (the fear of clowns) and Monophobia (the fear of being alone). I also will describe possible causes of phobias, the history of phobias, how fear is helpful in small amounts, what fear does to someone and how to defeat it. Fear is present in all people but some more than others and I would like to know why. The definition of a phobia is “an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something”. Phobias are never simple and often do not have a simple answers or cures, but there are ways of dealing with phobias. There are some treatments that can help you get over your fears. Phobias are not easy to get into without getting into very

Of the many disorders presented in chapter 15, I find phobias the most interesting. Phobias are more than just a strong fear or dislike. A specific phobia is diagnosed when there is an uncontrollable, irrational, intense desire to avoid some object or situation. There are numerous types of phobias. A few common phobias are; agoraphobia, which is the avoidance of situations in which one will fear having a panic attack, especially a situation in which it is difficult to get help, and from which it difficult to escape. Social phobia, which refers to an intense fear of being watched and judged by others. It is visible as a fear of public appearances in which embarrassment or humiliation is possible, such as public speaking, eating, or performing.

Specific phobia, also known as simple phobia, is an anxiety disorder characterized by persistent and unreasonable fear of something or fear of a situation, wherein such fear is not proportionate to the danger or risk of that thing or situation that a person has the fear of. The five sub-type of specific phobia are the animal, natural environment, blood injection injury, situational and others. The most common specific phobia is the animal phobia. Examples of this animal phobia include fear of dogs, snakes, insects or mice. To prevent over diagnosis of specific phobia, DSM 5 have made several changes based on the over assessment of danger or erratic fear. To be considered as one of the specific phobias, it should meet the requirements

Specific Phobia, under the category of anxiety disorder, there are five different specifiers. Nonetheless, this paper will focus on the treatment for claustrophobia, a situational phobia subtype. In general, there are two types of treatments, psychological and biological. However, several research suggested that cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), which incorporates the exposure of anxious situation to the patient, can obtain approximately 70%-80% of improvement rate (Beidel, Bulik, & Stanley, n.d., P.156). Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to determine which type of CBT would be the most effective for specific phobia situational specifier patients who are experiencing personal distress or distress to others and/or functional

A phobia is an overwhelming and unbearable fear of something, such as an object, place, situation, feeling or animal. Phobias are a lot profounder than fears. In my essay I will be looking at a scenario of a woman called Amy with an extreme phobia of birds and how we can explain her fear looking at different psychological theories that explains learnt behaviour.

Phobia is an extreme fear or dislike of particular thing or situation , especially one that cannot be reasonable . In addition, the Phobia has no age , nor gender. People with Phobia cannot control themselves . There are two types of Phobia are a Specific , or Simple Phobia and Complex Phobia . Specific , or Simple Phobia is a normal fear , but it can be develop in childhood to become a Phobia . Complex Phobia is happen in bad event specially on adulthood . All in all , Phobia is kind of extremely scared and it has to two types are a Specific or Simple Phobia and Complex Phobia .

A phobia is something bigger than a fear. It is something that makes us internally cringe by just thinking of it. It’s that little thought that makes your heart race and your fingers tremble like a leaf during a storm. The reason you may have a phobia is because something traumatic happened to you during your childhood or even adulthood. You may also be afraid of something because the size of it, how dark it is, or it intimidates you. About.com states ‘’we no longer need to consciously think about certain behaviors, as they simply ‘’come naturally’’.’’ Meaning once you get used to doing your daily routine it will be hard to change one step. If you have been afraid of dogs since you were a child it is not going to be simple to just walk up to one and pet it. It takes time but with practice you can conquer your fear for

Known as a mental disorder a phobia is a persistent fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to compelling desire to avoid it. Phobias tend to affect the way people live their lives, for example, their working and social environments, considering that they last for a very long time and are capable to cause intense psychological physical stress. It is considered today the most common mental and anxiety disorder in the United States (Matig Mavissakalian & David H. Barlow 1981 pp 2). There are many phobias such as: the fear of aging, fear of changing, fear of clowns, fear of getting fat, fear of being in closed spaces, etc.

Phobias are irrational fears, so to be afraid of a cobra is not a phobia, but to be afraid of all snakes is. Most people are afraid of helplessness in the face of danger. Many are afraid of needles, the dark, drowning, and heights and so on. Think of the things that frighten you most and you can be sure many of your readers will fear them as well.

However, phobia can even cause people to risk their health. For example, the fear of dentists can leave people suffering from it willing to risk the health of their teeth in order to avoid having to go through an exam or procedure ( MacKay). When one knows about an upcoming confrontation, it can be the reason why one can not sleep or finds it hard to focus on important tasks. Due the change in daily routine, this unrealistic fear can interfere with the ability to socialize, work, or go about everyday life, brought on by and object, event or situation. But even animals have anxieties and phobias just as every human being (www.phobia-help.de). A phobia is an irrational fear, one knows that the object or situation, one is scared off, can not hurt one, but one is still afraid. A reason for this is that the human mind can not distinguish what is real and imaginary. When one has uncontrollable anxiety attacks, he loses rational judgement, leading to complicated problems. However, anyone can develop a phobia, men and women, teens and young adults, and elderly lady or a one-year-old boy (MacKay).