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PHOBIA

What exactly is phobia? Are you afraid to be left alone at night in the dark, do you get really frightened when you look down from a window from the 20th floor, or do you scream when you see any kind of insect? Well, if you answered yes to any of the above, it is most likely that you are suffering from phobia.

Phobia is present when you are frightened beyond more than the situation or object would cause. And for these situations, there may be absolutely no reason whatsoever for you to be afraid about.

It is just that your mind exaggerates the situation that you are in and portrays it in such a way that causes you to think about it in a different kind of way that makes you create fear within yourself. Hence developing your intense fear for that particular person situation or object.

Research has shown that phobia is most commonly found in the female population. First in the phobia list that plague the ladies is agoraphobia and zoophobia. Agoraphobia is the fear of open spaces, this occurs three times as much in female than in males. Zoophobia is the fear of animals, where 95% of zoophobias occur in females.

REFERENCES

Fox Bronwyn, Power over Panic - Freedom from panic/anxiety related disorders, 1997, Longman, Australia.

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