A phobia is an excessive or unreasonable fear of a specific object or situation. If person is exposed to the thing he’s afraid of, he become overwhelmed with extreme with extreme feelings of anxiety, fear and even panic.
There are five types of phobias:
- animal (fear of snakes, of spiders);
- natural environment (fear of heoghts, of storms);
- situational (fear of flying, of dentist);
- blood-injection-injury (fear of blood, of injury);
- other phobias (includes all phobias that don't fall into one of the first four (f.e. fear of illness, of clown, of death).
I want to write more about Aerophobia and Nomatophobia.
Aerophobia - a fear of flying. Many famous people suffer from this phobia such as Whoopi Goldberg, Billy Bob Thornton, Mahammad Ali, Jennifer Aniston, Michael Jackson and others. The cause could be that in peoples past there was likely a bad event or emotional trauma.
Nomatophobia - a fear of names. I haven't found a famous person, which suffers from such phobia. Causes are likely the same as aerophobias. Symptoms typicall include shortness of breathe, irregular heartbeat, sweeting, nausea, overall feeling of dread, also everyone experiences in their own way and have different symptoms.
Also I want to say about my phobia. It called brantophobia - a fear of lightning and thunder. When I was little my family had a grange near the forest. We spent there our weekends. One day was thunder with lightening. Whole family hid in the house but suddenly through the chimney flyed in a globe-lightnening. After this adventure I fear of thunders with lightnening and when they start I hide in my bed. It's not sa save place but under a wrap you can't see anything what is happening around.
P.S. Of the different types of anxiety disorders, phobias are the most common. The American Psychiatric Association reports that each year about 8% of American adults suffer from as phobia. In fact, phobias are the most common psychological disorder among women and the second most common disorder among men over 25.
