Essays on Phobias

Aquaphobia can stem from a traumatic or negative experience, not learning to swim, or can be inherited from one’s parents. Whatever the cause, all aquaphobics have one thing in common- they avoid being in or around a substance that covers 71% of the planet. Phobias...

An American writer and lecturer, and the developer Dale Carnegie (1988) stated that “Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it. That is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.” Every people has their own fears. The...

Aerophobia is the fear of flying. Statistics reveal that many people suffer from it. Different factors can cause aerophobia like the fear of the unknown, the fear of heights, the fear of being in a tight space, the fear of not escaping, the fear of...

The scope of this paper is to explain how phobias develop and how systematic desensitization can be used to overcome these phobias using classical conditioning principles. The main classical conditioning principles are acquisition, extinction, habituation, and counterconditioning. “Classical conditioning helps explain many behavioral phenomena, especially...

Wondering why there are a lot of people who don’t want to get married? Well, do that no more because the answer is: most of these people fear commitment. They are Gamophobic. In the Greek language, Gamo means marriage and Phobos means phobia. Gamophobia is...

Why do people have phobias? People tend to have phobias as they stem from bad experiences in their lives. One bad encounter might leave people scarred for life. Phobias are an intense feeling of dread that are physiological feelings that many hold. Although people might...

I have a fear of heights. Acrophobia or fear of heights is one of the most common phobias in the world. It is an extreme or irrational fear or phobia of heights, especially when one is not particularly high up. Heights never bothered me when...

Abstract In this report, we talked about phobia disorder which is a nonsensical and irrational fear reaction. There are two types of phobia: specific phobia, and complex phobia. Also, there are a few causes that may have to assume a significant job. For example heredity,...

Introduction In order to overcome behavioural problems such as fear or anxiety that may be caused for example by phobias depression etc., individuals interact and communicate with their family members and trusted friends or seek professional help with a counsellor. There are relatively simple forms...

Over the past decade, virtual reality had massive breakthroughs, with its usage extended into various fields, such as arts, film production, medial, video gaming, and even military training. The virtual environment is presented through a head mounted display (HMD) composed of separate screens for each...

In the recent past, with regards to a 2007 which was carried out in the United States, anxiety disorders were the most prevalent form of mental illness, with about 40 million grown-ups aged above 18 years – an equivalent of 18.1% of the total population...

It was the summer of August fourteenth, twenty eighteen when I decided to live life to its fullest. Your choices end up designing your life. You could either have an eventful, memorable life or a simple, non-existent way of living. I was placed in a...

Fear is an ordinary emotional reaction to an apparent debilitating improvement, and is a typical component of early advancement. Formative apprehensions, including fear of the dark, unknowns, and loud noise, are ordinarily passing and for the most part resolve in adolescence (Mineka and Öhman, 2002)....