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There are three main types of phobia:

Specific phobia (simple phobia): In this most common form of phobia, people fear specific animals (dogs, cats, spiders, snakes), people (clowns, dentists, doctors), environments (dark places, thunderstorms, high places) or situations (flying, riding a train or stay in an enclosed area). These are at least partly genetic (inherited) and partly run in families.

Social phobia (social anxiety disorder): people with social phobia fear social situations where they might be humiliated, embarrassed or judged by others, and become particularly anxious when strangers. Fear could be limited to performance, such as lecture, concert or business presentation. Or it could be generalized, hence avoiding the phobic part in many social settings, such as eating in public or use a public restroom. Social phobia runs in families, the people who were shy or lonely children or who had a history of unhappy or negative social experiences in childhood, seem more likely to have phobia. Read the rest of this entry »

Phobias are a form of pathological anxiety. A phobia is an abnormal fear of an object or situation. Agoraphobia, for example, is the fear of being in public places, surrounded by the crowd and unable to escape easily if one is panicking.

There are many phobias, phobias of animals (mice, dogs, snakes, spiders …), phobias situations (fear of enclosed spaces such as elevators, tunnels, fear of heights, water from the plane …), social phobia (fear of public speaking, agoraphobia, fear of blushing …), etc..

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