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In “Phobia,” Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2004, A phobia is an intense and persistent fear of a specific object, situation, or an activity. The intense fear usually causes the person to live a constricted life and the person usually is fully aware the fear is irrational. Phobic anxiety is easily distinguished from other types of anxiety because it usually occurs in response to a certain object or person.
There are many common symptoms of a phobia. Usually they consist of anxiety and discomfort that is out of proportion to the actual threat of the object, sweating, poor motor control, and feelings of weakness, cowardice, or losses of self-esteem are symptoms.
According to the World Book Encyclopedia P: 354, Sigmund Freud, the f
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In conclusion phobias are not any laughing matter. They are a very serious condition that can severely affect a person’s life. They can cause a person to become housebound. There are many treatment options but the results of these treatments vary greatly and for some people their only option is to just cope with it and live their lives the best they can.
According to Fredd Culbertson http://www.phobialist.com, there are 538 known phobias from his research into this subject. Some of the more interesting ones I have found on his list are as follows; Phobophobia - The fear of phobias; Kathisophobia – The fear of sitting down; and Plutophobia – the fear of wealth.
ounder of psychoanalysis, thought that in phobia the thing feared o
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