A person with a specific phobia avoids or restricts activities because of their strong fear of specific places, events, or objects. It’s an intense, irrational fear of something that poses little or no actual danger. Although adults with phobias may realize that these fears are irrational, even thing about facing the feared object or situation brings on severe anxiety symptoms. The fear is persistent, excessive, and unreasonable. Specific phobias are common but less disabling than other anxiety disorders. It’s common to have some features of several of these disorders.
The most common fears are spiders, insects, mice, snakes, and heights. Other feared objects or situations might include an animal, blood, injections, storms, driving, flying or enclosed places like elevators.
One of the common approaches to treat phobias is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy which can address negative thoughts, emotions and behaviors that contribute to the anxiety of the phobia.
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