Phobias

Who knew that if you are scared of any existence, scientists have a scientific name for it... and the fact that there are thousands of fears that each human goes through. The most important thing we need to understand is not every fear is considered as phobia.

What is phobia?

A phobia is an irrational fear reaction. It is also defined as an anxiety disorder, it is an excessive fear of an object or any situation.

Difference between fear and phobia.

Fear is an emotion which is natural, it alerts the body to take an appropriate response to protect yourself from danger, where as phobia is an excessive fear which triggers anxiety in a person related to a specific object or a situation.

Phobias are not something which can be taken lightly or something that can be made fun of, which is a usual habit of some people which makes them think that they are being superior of the person. Phobia in a person can toture them mentally and can cause depression which often leads to suicide. Having a phobia makes you feel helpless, like you have no support in this world, it makes you feel guilty like it's your fault that you cannot take control over your own life and I bet no one wants to feel this way, I mean would you, god forbid.

Specific type of phobias...

1.Fear related to animals.

2. Fear related to specific situations 

3. Fear related to medical treatments

4. Fear related to natural environments 

3 main group of phobias:

1.Social phobia: extreme anxiety in public or social situations.

2. Specific phobia: most common and main  focus is on specific objects.

3. Agoraphobia: fear of being alone in public places.

I never really knew that there is a phobia of everything until one day when me and my sister were playing around and her not getting enough attention she told me that she has a phobia of something ( don't really remember what it was) and to proove her point she searched it up and showed it to me which was really surprising to me because how was I supposed to know that there is a specific name for each and every fear.

12 most basic phobias include:

1. Acrophobia: fear of heights

2. Aerophobia: fear of flying

3. Arachnophobia: fear of spiders

4. Astraphobia: fear of thunder and lightning

5. Autophobia: fear of being alone

6. Claustrophobia: fear if confined or crowded places.

7. Hemophobia: fear of blood

8. Hydrophobia: fear of water

9. Ophidiophobia: fear of snakes

10. Zoophobia: fear of animals

11. Onomatophobia: fear of names

12. Cryophobia: fear of ice or cold

The most weirdest type of phobia that I recently found out about was Xenophobia which is fear of the colour yellow and the onomatophobia. 

What is the most weirdest phobia you know or have ever heard of, I would love to know them, comment down below.