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what are phobias?

a phobia is an excessive fear of an object like a spider or a dog which may be far from harming you, and although you do know that this not a rational way of thinking,still you feel anxious when you get exposed to those objects.

the difference between fears and phobias

the difference between fears and phobias is that phobias are irrational or excessive fears, and if you were thinking rationally you won't have feared that object that triggered your phobic response.

what are the types of phobias?

there many types of phobias below is a list of some of the most popular ones:

• Arachnophobia (fear of spiders)
• Venustraphobia, Fear of Beautiful women
• social phobia( is the fear of being embarrassed or doing something wrong in front of people, where you always feel self conscious and have a feeling of being watched)
• agoraphobia ( contrary to common belief its not fear or public places , its fear of having a panic attack and not being able to deal with it while in public. that's why that person usually avoids places where he thinks escapement is hard (like crowded places )
• Achluophobia (Fear of darkness)
• acrophobia (Fear of open high places)
• Aichmophobia (Fear of needles or pointed objects)
• Cynophobia ( fear of dogs)
• dental phobia or dental anxiety (fear of dentists)

the good news is that unlike depression many of the phobias won't prevent you from doing your daily activities , for example if you fear spiders you are unlikely to leave your work and run unless there is a spider around.

phobias treatment

phobias can be treated using many ways, the famous methods used are Cognitive behavior therapy ( where you change your perception of the object by changing the way you think and so prevent triggering the phobic response ,
Exposure therapy (where you get exposed to the object until you that discover its harmless),hypnosis and Neuro linguistic programming (where you can alter the internal image of the object in your mind and replace it with a new one that doesn't trigger you phobic response).

did that help ?

i am not sure if i suffer from phobia,what are phobia symptoms?

Yeah i always feel self conscious , what to do?

i fear heights, what to do?

i guess i suffer from agoraphobia

i fear dark places, what to do?

tell me about cognitive behavior therapy ?

i want to know more details on exposure therapy

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