Essays on Phobias

Your teacher asked you to stand in front the whole class to talk. You move to a new town and you have to meet the new neighbors. Your boss asked you to do a presentation in front of a bunch of people at work. If...

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)....

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...

“Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear and how to be free from it”. Being fearless is not humane or moral. It is overcoming fear that makes you brave. To have no fear, is to not need to...

Outline and evaluate the behavioural approach to treating phobias. One behavioural approach to treating phobias is through systematic desensitisation (SD). This is where patients gradually are introduced to or imagine the stimulus of the phobia and are taught relaxation techniques in a hierarchy to eventually...

Even with the increased awareness of the LGBTQ community, bisexuals are still seen as “confused”, “experimenting”, or even not real at all. Many even see their sexuality as a threat to their own sexuality and identity. This, unfortunately, is a problem within the community as...