How to tell if you have any phobia 22 Articles

by Rita Chaney

Self-detecting a phobia may not be as simple as it sounds. The National Institute of Mental Health reports that nearly 40 million adults in America, 18% of the population in any year, experience anxiety, fearfulness, and ...read more

by Ted Sherman

Everyone has phobias, from minor ones such as avoiding walking on pavement cracks to a doomsday Chicken Little-like fear that the sky will fall and kill everyone in the world. Many famous people have phobias, not about the...read more

by Ophelia

A phobia is an *unreasonable* fear of an object or situation. The key here is *unreasonable*. Everyone would feel fear in a cage with a hungry tiger. Fear, in and of itself, is a healthy emotion. It allows you to recognize...read more

by Colette Georgii

PHOBIAS: SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT Most adults know when they have a phobia because it is so intense that it can cause a panic attack or extreme anxiety reaction. Therefore, when people know they have a phobia they eithe...read more

by Ethel Smith

It is normal to be apprehensive in some situations, and to have some fears. Most of us have some things that we are reluctant to face, or that make us feel uneasy. That's part of being a normal, individual, human being. Ho...read more

by Rachelle de Bretagne

Phobia's are a very strange phenomenon, although there are many ways in which the word phobia is bandied about these days. People use it in so many ways in modern theory when talking about homophobia etc or other social ph...read more

by EMoore

When you have a phobia you will know it. As a child the first time you climbed a few rungs of a ladder and looked down and got dizzy and almost fell, you knew something was wrong. Ladders had lost most of their appeal. The...read more

by Angela S. Young

Most people who have phobias already know they have them. They have suffered for a length of time with irrational panic attacks that are out of proportion to the object that provokes them. The problem comes in when peopl...read more

by Emily Wickersham

A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder, and it is the most common type of psychological problem. It is defined as a severe, irrational fear of a situation or thing. The key word here is irrational. If you are afraid of ...read more

by Janet Hammer

Phobia by definition is a totally irrational fear. So how can you tell if you have one? I personally have a severe case of Arachnophobia which defined is a fear of spiders. I'm actually being kind to myself I'm afraid of a...read more

by Krystle Hernandez

Are you afraid of the dark? What about slimy snakes or creepy, crawling spiders? Are you too scared to go into the closets of your own home because you fear that the door will somehow close and trap you in there? Most p...read more

by J Carl

Isn't it obvious? You get dry heaves over bridges? Your heart races when you see a tight space. You hate the thought of spiders. How would one NOT know they have a phobia? And perhaps the better question is if a pho...read more

by Daphne Matthews

Even from childhood, I have had several phobias. However, until ten years ago, I never realized that I had them. I knew that if I was near deep water, I had trouble breathing and that the smallest of spiders paralyzed me...read more

by Mona Gallagher

I once knew a woman who was afraid to leave her home. She had an irrational fear of leaving her home and only felt safe when she was behind locked doors. In her intellect, she recognized that it was irrational fear but she...read more

by Rex Trulove

A phobia is an intense, overwhelming, uncontrollable, and irrational fear of something, whether it is a physical something or simply a situation. So anyone who manifests these symptoms has a phobia. There are even common...read more

by MysLykeMeeh

What is Phobia? Phobia is a word used to described a person who has an irrational and unreasonable fear of a certain objects or a particular situation. The word "phobia" comes from the Greek word "phobos" which means fear...read more

by Nicole F.

Pounding heart, trembling body, panic-stricken mind. These reactions in our bodies are associated with intense, uncommon situations of imminent danger. Victims of physical attack and soldiers in the midst of battle...read more

by Laura Scholes

I have quite a few rather unusual phobias, coupled with a few of the more 'generic' ones. I'll list them below with how I feel when I'm exposed to them and the first time I had a fright involving the said phobia. SPIDER...read more

by Nikita Sabunaev

First of all lets set straight, that phobia is uncontrollable, irrational, and persistent fear of specific objects or situations. How can you tell if you have any phobia? Had you ever noticed that in some certain situa...read more

by Katz

Diagnosing and treating phobias should take place under the careful eye of a trained professional. Following are a few helpful hints that may warrant an immediate visit to your doctor: If you scream into a pillow when y...read more