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Types of Phobia
By peace | May 6, 2006
Psychiatry identifies three different types of phobia:
1. Agoraphobia is a fear of open spaces. It is also a fear of having a panic attack in a public place, of losing control in an area from which escape may prove difficult or embarrassing.
2. Social Phobia is an irrational anxiety brought forth by exposure to certain social situations, leading to avoidance behaviour.
3. Specific Phobia is a persistent and irrational fear in response to some specific stimulus, which commonly results in avoidance of/withdrawal from that stimulus. It could be triggered by an insect or animal (zoophobia), by a situation like being trapped in an enclosed space (claustrophobia) or it could be a fear of disease (pathophobia).
Top 10 Phobia
1. Arachnophobia
Fear of Spiders. Half of women and 10 per cent of men have, to some degree, a fear of spiders.
2. Social Phobia
Fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations.
Social phobia typically begins in childhood or adolescence.
3. Aerophobia
Fear of flying.
4. Agoraphobia
Agoraphobia involves intense fear and avoidance of any place or situation where escape might be difficult or help unavailable in the event of developing sudden panic-like symptoms.
5.Claustrophobia
Fear of being trapped in small confined spaces.
6. Acrophobia
Fear of heights.
7. Emetophobia
Fear of vomit.
8. Carcinophobia
Fear of cancer.
9. Brontophobia
Fear of thunderstorms.
10. Necrophobia
Fear of death or or dead things.
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