Technically speaking everyone is afraid of something. Some people fears spider, some are not. Some were terrified with worms some were not. When you feel danger or afraid your hair might stand, your heartbeat would increase abnormally or in some cases you might have a panic attack. So, it is the amygdale, a part of your brain that triggers fear. It governs some of your major body neurons, hormones and senses. It enables your body to react within seconds when having a feeling or sight of threat People were usually mistaken with the association of trauma and phobia. A trauma is a discreet event, or series of events, that cause harm to a person. It can be physical and/or emotional harm. A phobia is the ongoing, and irrational, fear of something …show more content…
specific, whether it actually occurs or not. You could have a phobia of zebras even if you have never actually seen one, much less have been harmed by one. However, some of the fears are a bit more irrational, rare and weird. These are the 25 strangest and funniest phobias you could ever have. 25) Ablutophobia- Fear of taking bath or cleaning yourself, these guys stinks! 24) Nomophobia- Aka no-mobile-phone phobia is the fear of not having service reception. And according to British researchers 50% of people have it. 23) Philophobia- Butterflies in the stomach are often associated with love, however for someone who is philophobic these butterflies turn into deadly moths for they fear commitment and terrified by falling in love. 22) Hypnophobia- This guy must be super drowsy for it is the abnormal fear of falling asleep. 21) Aelurophobia- Fear of cats. 20) Gynophobia- This guy must be living a couple more times lonelier for this is the fear of women.
19) Phonophobia- *whispering* Fears of noise.. SSSHHHH! 18) Hedenophobia- Lo! The fear of sex or pleasure. Amf. 17) Thantophobia- This guy must be very possessive, for this is the fear of losing someone you love. Charot! 16) Ambulophobia- Abnormal fear of walking, these people would be in wheelchairs. 15) Androphobia- Fear of man, if a man had this case, would he be afraid of himself? o.O 14) Anablephobia-Fear of looking up, aww.. how are you supposed to look at the beautiful night sky. 13) Barophobia- Fear of gravity, how does a man with this case get around? GRAVITY is everywhere! 12) Cathisophobia- This guy must be tired of standing for this is the fear of sitting. 11) Ecophobia- Fear of a home or houses, so where do these people live? 10) Heliophobia- Fear of sun, if you thought people who are afraid of garlic were vampires, these people are TRUE vampires. 9) Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia- Fear of long words. 8) Nomatophobia- Fear of names, how is this even possible? 7) Phagophobia- Fear of swallowing, really huh? How do these guys eat? 6) Scolionophobia- Fear of school, every student have this XD. 5) Sitophobia- Fear of food, worst phobia I’ve ever
known. 4) Anthropophobia- Fear of people or society, this guy must be mad. 3) Chrometophobia- Fear or dislike of money, geez..money makes the world go round. 2) Hagiophobia- Fear of saints or holy things this guy must be a demon. 1) Phabophobia- Fear of phobia, endless cycle of fear.
These include things such as dislike of strangers, animals, drugs, and being humiliated. Regarding the subject of animals, there is an entire chapter in the text called Pet Problems that delves into this topic and some of the other fears. The story known as “The Bump in the Rug” shows the fear of being caught and animals, respectively. For in this story, a man who is installing carpeting discovers a bump under a section of the material. Thinking that it is his misplaced package of cigarettes, he simply hammers it until it is flat. However, unfortunately, the owner of the house had a parakeet which lodged itself under the carpeting (Harold, 358). A tale that focuses on the fear of drugs, in “The Stuffed Baby” from the Bringing Up Baby chapter of the text. This grotesque tale centers around a young couple who have a dead baby which they have hollowed out and filled with marijuana (Harold, 225). The fears of this one are the influence of drugs and how they could hypothetically cause people to act in an abhorrent
Characteristics of agoraphobia are a marked fear or anxiety about two or more of the following: "using public transportation" like cars, planes, trains, and buses; "being in open spaces" like a market, a parking lot, a bridge, or ship; "being in enclosed places" like a store, a theater, or an elevator; "standing in line or being in a crowd"; or "being outside of the home alone." (APA, 2013, pg 217) This fear differs from other phobias in that the fear is not the specific place or thing, but the person is afraid that they might not be able to leave or get help if they panic or are incapacitated or have embarrassing symptoms or situations. This might be because of other medical conditions such as vomiting or inflammatory bowel symptoms. Older adults might fear falling. Children might fe...
A fear that I have is a fear of death, death is always around and it can happen at anytime. In Salem everyone fear death because people are being accused of doing witchcraft or being a
In confronting any type of learned fear, you must reprogram your inappropriate fight or flight response. This means you must purposely do things that frighten you. When you are scared, an automatic reaction of resistance and anxiety occur. You don’t even have to consciously think about the feeling; it just happens. Your body reacts with an increased heart rate, breathing and muscle tension so you know to defend yourself. This built-in survival mechanism called the “flight or fight” response is hardwired into our DNA. This is why your reaction can occur without you even consciously thinking about.
Introduce Topic: A phobia as defined by medicalnewstoday.com, “is an irrational fear, a kind of anxiety disorder in which the sufferer has a relentless dread of a situation, living creature, place or thing.”
One of the characteristics of a phobia is a feeling that is greater than the fear of a situation or object with an exaggeration of the danger associated with the said situation or even object. This persistent fear often leads to an anxiety disorder that leads an individual to develop mechanisms that ensure one avoids the object or situation that triggers the occurrence of the phobia. Phobias can have highly debilitating effects on an individual including the development of depression, isolation, substance abuse, and even suicide. Many people take phobia for granted however, it is clear that it has the potential to impair the quality of life for both the affected and the people around them. The fact that many of the phobias are manageable using
There’s a monster under your bed, and there are ghosts in the attic. The Bogey man is in your closet and ravens await your death so they can pick from your rotting flesh. Flowers are ready to strangle you, as pickles prepare to choke you in the night. It’s almost funny to hear of people who actually fear flowers and pickles. But these people have real legit fears of even the nicest of things. Although these fears are horrible, and should not be feared; I think the more we know about them, the more we can be prepared. There must be a deeper meaning of these weird phobias. Is it nature? Or inherited traits of the human body? Maybe they come from past experiences? Even as these fears are quite interesting, but unwanted, I want to know why people acquire these ridiculous fears and how we could stop them.
This paper is focused on how fear as a subject is being perceived by many as a dominant and primitive human emotion. An uncontrollable energy that’s exists and created within every individual, which is directed towards an object or a given situation that does not present an actual danger. The individual then analyzes that the fear is contradictory and thus cannot help the reaction. Gradually, the phobia aims to build up and aggravate as the fear of fear response takes hold. Eventually they distinguish their fear responses as negative, and go out of their way to avoid those reactions. ‘Fear is derived as a basic feeling and therefore created by us – it is not something we have, but something we do. The principle of fear is to keep us safe.’
I hate needles. That doesn’t come as a shock to most people who know me. I’m a wuss. I have a fairly long list of phobias, but needles rank right up there at the top. I once read somewhere that public speaking is the number one fear of most Americans. Coming in a not-so-close second place was death. So the way I interpret that statistic, that must mean that at a funeral, most people would rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy. That’s pretty shocking. So what does this have to do with my fear of needles, you may ask? Not much. I just figured that since this paper is for extra credit, I can pretty much write whatever I want and not have to worry about getting a bad grade for being creative, so I just thought I’d throw that in there for giggles and make it a little more entertaining. But it actually does tie in. Can you guess what the third-ranking fear of most Americans is? Needles. (Okay, not really. I made all that up, but I hear that 90% of all statistics are made up anyway, so I guess it is possible that I could’ve read that somewhere.)
Phobias: The Fear of escalators and Elevators The clock strikes midnight. You think about the movie you just watched. “Is Mr. Hyde going to come for me?” you think.
Phobias are irrational fear to a person, place or object and they are classified as an anxiety disorder. There is a term for every phobia imaginable. Phobias affect approximately nineteen million individuals, with the fears ranging from blood to women and every thing in between. The symptoms one experiences when suffering with a phobia include profuse sweating, headaches, extreme nausea and a variety of other physical symptoms.
There are three kinds of phobias: simple phobia, social phobia, and panic attacks. Simple phobias, also called specific phobias, are fears of a specific thing, such as spiders or being in a closed place. Most simple phobias develop during childhood and eventually disappear. Specific phobia is a marked fear of a specific object or situation. It is a category for any phobias other than agoraphobia and social phobia. The categories of specific phobias are 1. situational phobias such as: fear of elevators, airplanes, enclosed places, public transportation, tunnels, or bridges; 2. fear of the natural environment such as: storms, water, or heights; 3. animal phobias such as: fear of dogs, snakes, insects, or mice; 4. blood-injection-injury phobia such as: fear of seeing blood or an injury, or of receiving an injection. (Wood 520).
Phobias have been around for thousands of years, but have just recently become more commonly recognized. According to Greg Korgeski, Hippocrates was the first physician ever to reference phobias in his work, although he did not actually come up with the term “phobia,” which was ...
Fear is one of the human races strongest emotions, fear is something that everybody has, fear is one of the emotions which affects everybody you know and everybody you don’t. Fear carries an extremely negative connotation, this implication should not always be the case. Fear is powerful: fear has kept many people safe from doing harmful things, fear causes people to work harder, to practice more and to be the best they can be, however fear also brands us as cowards and weaklings by our peers, those we respect and the people we look up to. Most people view fear as a weakness and a fault, but only if they do not have the same fear. Well here I am about to tell you my three deepest darkest fears.
In class, my teacher made me get in a group and put together a survey. On the survey we could ask any questions we wanted to, as long as it pertained to fear. Within the 2 days of passing around the survey and getting people to do the survey we ended up received many results. One specific question that shocked me when I saw the answers was“What was your fear, and why?”. Many people answered this question by saying spiders, snakes, drowning, flying, etc….. When I was reading these,I was expecting a different results more a deeper fear that has affected the way you look at that specific thing in life.