Phobias 11 Articles

by Sunshine Simmons

The basics of phobias: Phobias are irrational fears of things, events, or places that pose little or not threat of harm. Fear is a natural response to danger in humans, but phobias take fear to a whole new level. Peop...read more

by Carly Braith

Phobia comes from the Greek word for "fear", for that it what it means; having a fear of something. Fear is a natural human emotion, and a useful one. It means that we are able to learn from our experiences. As children, w...read more

by Robin A. Ross

There are more phobias then we could ever count. Some phobias are common such as fear of flying or fear of spiders, some a little less common such as emetophobia or the fear of throwing up. Emetophobia, is not necessar...read more

by Prajna

School phobia is known as scolionophobia. School phobia is an exaggerated fear of going to school, or more correctly, of leaving home or parents. While many children shown anxiety about school at one time or another, schoo...read more

by Andrea Baljak

Fear is an emotional response to tangible and realistic dangers. Fear should be distinguished from anxiety, an emotion that often arises out of proportion to the actual threat or danger involved, and can be subjectively ex...read more

by Lacy Enderson

The amazing truth of specific phobias is that they create a great amount of false fear about situations that will probably never happen. The fears are intense, yet irrational. The list of phobic fears is long. It includ...read more

by Saron Maramo

Contrary to popular belief remarks like the following do nothing to help an aqua phobic. "It's easy." "I learnt how to swim when my Dad threw me into the deep end of the pool one day!" It just says to the person that th...read more

by Excalibur Snape

Phobias have a way of consuming one's life. It is not fun or easy to live with one phobia but try to live with more then one phobia and if that phobia had to do with dealing with the public or interacting with large crowd...read more

by Louise Tucker

Phobia is an irrational involuntary in appropriate fear reaction that generally leads to an avoidance of common everyday places, objects, or situations such as, fear of driving on the freeway, flying in a plane, speaking i...read more

by Michele Venturini

Anxiety from performance is persons who suffer from a particular disturbance of anxiety, recently classified like anxiety from performances: these persons often believe not to be to the height of the situation when they ar...read more

by James Copher

Phobias have been explained here as irrational, fears that are not warranted or justified. Fear is a basic human emotion that is in our subconsious or that is encoded on our DNA if you will. We fear things because of past ...read more