When Fear Takes Control

Fear: The word Fear, the first thing for which Bang! If creatures that are moving did not experience the sensation of fear, especially not humans, we don't know what we should do with them. We experience an incredibly diverse array of feelings as vertebrate primates with complex brains. And in certain situations, our brains lose some of the checks and balances over certain emotions. A phobia is what it is when fear becomes overstretched and out of our control.

Phobia, Fear that may lead to the formation of a phobia normal The fear associated with a phobia can be directed towards 1 particular thing occurring. Examples of such things: There are various causes of phobias in people. Their most common cause is a negative experience at some point in someone's childhood. As an example, if an individual was frightened during a storm when they were a child, that individual may later become anxious at the slightest hint of lightning. So, too, a young child in a burning house may form a lifelong phobia of fire. The fear of one thing can pass from a mother to her child. ''If a mother is afraid of spiders, for instance, her child is significantly more likely to develop a fear of spiders if they are exposed to the mother being fearful whilst she is exposed to a spider. Some phobias can also be inherited, scientists believe. There are so many different pieces to the puzzle that it's impossible to say how many individuals have one or more phobias. It seems that this is about 12.5% of the world's population, worldwide. A third key point is that phobias rarely start later in life. This is why phobias usually start in childhood.

Phobias come in three types: Specific Phobias (phobias about specific things), Social Phobia (phobias that have to do with social situations) and Agoraphobia (phobias having to do with an event or place.

The overwhelming majority of phobias are not dangerous. Making these phobias exempt is acceptable because these people tend to avoid those situations and do no harm to themselves or others. Yes, well, social phobias are a little different. The fear of things such as speaking to other people in society, speaking in front of the class, and working in groups. Agoraphobics also tend to take a lot more time out to do everything in general. These are the kinds of people who are commonly shut-ins and sit at home. Such disorders need to be medically and psychologically addressed. Most phobias that interfere with daily life can be well-treated by psychological means today.

There are hundreds of phobias in the world, here are just a few of the most common, try to spot if you or anyone you know has one of these?

• Acrophobia- Fear of high places or tall buildings

• Arachnophobia -Fear of Arachnids (spiders) or scorpions, or other arachnids

• Ophidiophobia - Fear of snakes

• Trypophobia – Fear of a lot of small holes and holes at once, and objects that show the same pattern.

• Megalophobia - Fear of large things, especially mountains, but also buildings, ships, etc.

• Haemophobia - Fear of blood or seeing blood

• Trypanophobia - Fear of Injections

• Insectophobia - Fear of insects and bugs

• Fear of the ocean, or large bodies of water

• Aerophobia - Fear of flying

• Cynophobia - Fear of dogs

• Astrapedaphobia - Fear of lightning and the sound of thunder

• Agoraphobia- Fear of being in a situation from which escape might be difficult in the event of panic or other emergencies, fear of being in a crowd, or traveling in a car or bus. Important specifier: (e.g., anxiety in places where it would be embarrassing or difficult to escape) excitator: False(e.g., fear of instructions that dissociate from the personality, antisocial impulses) 

• Mysophobia - Fear of dust (Anextrophobia) dirt and germs. People with phobia are usually very clean and clean.

• Monophobia or Autophobia - Fear of being alone

• Amaxophobia - Fear of riding in a car

• Scopophobia- Fear of being stared at by others

• Siderodromophobia - Fear of trains or railroads

• Obesophobia - Fear of obesity

• Nyctophobia/ Achluophobia/ Lygophobia/Scotophobia. Fear of darkness or night, or the woods at night.

• Gamophobia -Fear of getting married

• Gynophobia - Fear of women

The Limbic system of the human brain (responsible for emotions and other higher-order mental processes) plays its part in the formation of phobias quite well. Phobias result from several different changes to its operation. The Amygdala, the Hippocampus complex, which relates new and old memories and creates long-term memories, the thalamus, the hypothalamus, and the basal ganglia all share responsibility for this.

Do you also have a phobia?