Fear & Phobias

Today I´m going to talk about the fear

1. First I´d like to talk about what is this feeling

2. Second I´ll talk about the causes of this

3. After that I will focus on when we are afraid and finally I would like talk about wing fear darkness

1. So let´s start with what’s the fear?

Fear is a feeling induced by perceived danger or threat, we feel it many times in the same day, and we feel it more times than we think.

People develop specific fears as a result of learning.

Although many fears are learned, the capacity to fear is part of human nature. Many studies have found that certain fears (e.g. animals, heights) are much more common than others (e.g. flowers, clouds), and all of this is thanks to our mind

2. Now let´s move on to what we can do to get over the fear

Everything that we can do to get over the fear is confronting with it, If we are afraid with the dogs we only overcome this fear confronting us with the dogs. And this is the same with all of the fears.

PHOBIAS

But sometimes we can´t do it because our fear is huge and we can´t confront it, this is a phobia

A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation the affected person will go to great lengths to avoid, typically disproportional to the actual danger posed. If the feared object or situation cannot be avoided at all, the affected person will endure it with marked distress and significant interference in social activities.

Most phobias are classified into two categories and such phobias are considered to be sub-types of anxiety disorder. The two categories are:

1. Specific phobias: Fear of particular objects or social situations that immediately results in anxiety and can sometimes lead to panic attacks. Specific phobia may be further subdivided into five categories: animal type, natural environment type, situational type, blood-injection-injury type, and other.[3]

2. Agoraphobia: a generalized fear of leaving home or a small familiar 'safe' area, and of possible panic attacks. It may also be caused by various specific phobias such as fear of open spaces, social embarrassment (social agoraphobia), fear of contamination (fear of germs,) related to a trauma that occurred out of doors.

3. The difference between phobias and fear

The difference between phobia and fear is that fear is something we can control while a phobia is something uncontrollable that means we cannot act against what happens