Explore: Fears And Phobias

injury phobia, and panic attacks, often found in agoraphobia and emetophobia. Around 75% of those with phobias have multiple phobias. Phobias can be divided

groups phobias such as agoraphobia, social phobia, or simple phobia, see phobia. The following lists include words ending in -phobia, and include fears that

individual fears." There is also evidence for the validity of a genetic component contributing to blood-injection-injury phobias and animal phobias, although

The distinction between "normal" fears and phobias, a phobia (as defined by the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

desensitization, research on phobias and their treatment grew. The idea that social phobia was a separate entity from other phobias came from the British psychiatrist

sweating, and/or shaking in the presence of germs/contamination. Like many specific phobias, the exact causes of mysophobia are unknown. Both genetic and environmental

Effective treatment for phobias such as fear of flying would be one that activates and modifies the fear structure. Activation of the fear structure can be achieved

factor common to all phobias (agoraphobia, social phobia, and specific phobias), strongly predisposes a person to specific phobias. The recognition of

Phobophobia is a phobia defined as the fear of phobias, or the fear of fear, including intense anxiety and unrealistic and persistent fear of the somatic

functioning and health. As with all types of fear and phobias, dental fear can manifest as single or combination of emotional, physiological, cognitive and behavioural