2025年1月30日 · Typical symptoms of phobias can include nausea, trembling, rapid heartbeat, feelings of unreality, and being preoccupied with the fear object. Phobias can be debilitating, but they are also very treatable. It's important to talk to your doctor about treatments that can help.

The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to ...

2023年2月22日 · While phobias can involve the same things as ordinary fears, the effects of phobias are more severe. In the most severe cases, people with phobias critically limit their lives to avoid encountering what they fear. What are phobias?

2024年9月6日 · Phobias are fears of a particular object or event. There are five classifications of phobias in the general population. Phobias cause intense fear and anxiety. Some people may even have panic...

2023年12月8日 · Some of the most common phobias people have are heights, dogs, spiders, small spaces, water, flying, etc. If someone fears flying, for example, they may become physically ill simply thinking about flying, avoiding it as much as possible. There are three major categories of phobias: social phobia, agoraphobia, and specific phobia.

2023年6月9日 · Specific phobias are an extreme fear of objects or situations that pose little or no danger but make you highly anxious. So you try to stay away from these things. Unlike the brief anxiety you may feel when giving a speech or taking a test, specific phobias are long-lasting. Without treatment, specific phobias tend to last a lifetime.

2024年6月24日 · Statistics suggest that phobias are among the most common psychiatric illnesses among U.S. adults. The National Institute of Mental Health suggests that phobias affect approximately 9.1% of U.S. adults each year. These phobias typically emerge during childhood or adolescence and continue into adulthood.

Research suggests that both genetic and environmental factors contribute to the start of phobias. Certain phobias have been linked to a very bad first encounter with the feared object or situation. Mental health experts don’t know if this first encounter is necessary or if phobias can simply occur in people who are likely to have them.

2023年9月14日 · Phobias are irrational and disabling fears. If you have one, you'll do almost anything to avoid what you're afraid of. Someone with a phobia understands that their fear is not logical. Still, if...

2024年10月20日 · Phobias cause intense, irrational fears of specific objects or situations, leading to significant disruptions in daily life. Unlike general fear, which serves as a natural response to danger, phobias provoke an overwhelming sense of dread, leading individuals to …