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7. Fear memories:
A phobia is an irrational fear about certain objects, features or animals that is out of proportion to the existing circumstances. Thus, Ornithophobia, or the fear of birds makes me extremely uncomfortable around birds. I am not sure where this phobia actually came from as I was never attacked by a bird. It could have been because my mom was enthralled with Alfred Hitchcock and I did see the movie, The Birds, on several occasions. I can't see what's out there and I feel unprotected in the dark. To help me, mom would take me around the house and have me turn the lights on and off in each room. She also put a night light in my room for comfort. I was also afraid to sleep alone because I sometimes I had nightmares. My mom would comfort me after a nightmare with my favorite stuffed pillow. She would always reassure me that I was safe.
8. Family Events and reunions that you remember:
When I was five years old we had a family reunion in West Virginia at a cousin’s house in the mountains. We all gathered in the backyard where the kids were running around and having fun. They had a tire swing that swung right over and a river running beside the yard. I didn’t have a swim suit,
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I can remember from my earliest memories that we always had a cat. My mom had cats growing up and loved them and I think she thought we would love them too. No, not really! We only had one at a time and they were well kept. Then my father got us a hamster about two years after my parents were separated, but I really wasn’t into him either. Next, my mom inherited a very large fish tank from a friend. I liked the fish, but when it came time to go to the pet store to buy more fish, food, or equipment, I did not want to go. Since I had a natural fear of birds, I was scared to go to the pet store. Once I had a complete melt down because of the birds at the pet store and we had to leave the
Conquering phobias is a specialty of hypnotherapists. A phobia is a compulsive fear of a specified situation or object (Knight 2). A few types of phobias are fear of open spaces, fear of snow, fear of the cold, fear of marriage, fear of insanity, fear of being alone, fear of darkness, fear of disease, fear of beards, fear of birds, fear of being stared at, fear of bein...
Have you ever had something ever get to you or make you you scared? That is called fear and tons an tons of people have different fears. Fear is an emotion that makes you feel afraid or something is frighten. Some fears many include spiders, clowns and even death. ‘’Fear Prompts Teens To Act Impulsively’’ by Laura Sanders, ‘’Stress for Success’’ by Alison Pearce, and ‘’And Uncomfortable Bed’’ By Guy Maupassant all explain the idea of fear.
When I was little my phobia was clowns.Every Time I saw a clown I would freak out. Once when i went trick or treating with my cousins, then out of nowhere a clown came out with a chainsaw it started chasing us. Unfortunately I was never able to overcome my fear of clowns.
Almost everyone alive has a fear of something whether it be heights, spiders or even clowns. Some people however have more serious issues with their fears, fears that follow them almost everywhere they go, these fears are called phobias. It is estimated that 4 to 5 percent of Americans have some type of phobia, which is an irrational fear of situations and certain objects. There are over 500 known phobias; a very common phobia is social phobia.
It is possible that Reynolds is in denial of the consequences of his phobia. Throughout his interview, Reynolds would constantly contradict himself, at some points claiming that his fear was rational, and at other points claiming that it was irrational. Although he stresses that ornithophobia effects his life in a minute way, later in the interview, he tells that he spends most of his time on campus indoors, especially at Powell Library, to avoid birds. This would make any rational observer see that his ornithophobia clearly impedes his life, and is feasibly even the reason why he spends most of his time at home. Perhaps the reason Reynolds often contradicted himself in his interview was to shield himself from the true consequences of his phobia.
Phobias are considered a part of anxiety disorders, a phobia is an intense and irrational fear of a certain thing or situation. Some examples of phobias include fear of heights, insects, and even talking in front of a large crowd. The intensity of phobias differ from patient to patient but the severity of phobia...
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).
Simple phobias include irrational fears of things like animals such as dogs, cats, or the most common snakes. Specific phobias are centered around specific situations such as small spaces, claustrophobia, or heights, acrophobia. Social phobias are irrational fears of interactions with other people. For example, a person might have a social phobia of public speaking or fear of embarrassment. Another form of social phobia is agoraphobia which restraints a person from being in unfamiliar, open or closed spaces, typically resulting in panic attacks. These different types of phobias have two things in common; they are irrational, and they are treated in similar
Having a specific phobia towards the natural environment may sound unrealistic but it is indeed much more common than people believe. A natural environment phobia is fear of one or more of the following: heights, storms, or water. About 75% of people with this specific phobia averse more than one of the fears listed (DSM- APA). However, there is a difference between being fearful of something and it being a personal phobia of an individual. If it is a phobia it will last more than six months. Anything shorter than six months is then dismissed as a temporary fear. In children, this anxiety will be expressed by crying, temper tantrums, freezing or clinging on to their caregiver (DSM-APA). This can also be seen in sever phobias in adults but rarely does the adult have a temper tantrum, rather, a more developed emotional response is provoked. Typically, the amount of anxiety or fear that is actually observed during a phobic episode is entirely inordinate to the actual threat that a specific phobia may have (DSM-A...
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.”
Being afraid of bees, wasps, yellow jackets, and all sorts of creepy crawly creatures is natural for everyone including myself. And facing my fears and stepping out of the box is not something I typically want to do, so when my father told me one day that he wanted me to become a bee keeper with him, I knew I was going so far out of my comfort zone that I was frightened I would be scarred for life.
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.
Phobias, are complex and interesting disorders, that we do not know a whole lot about. Unfortunatly they can become so overwhelming that they can change people's lives. They can lead to social anxieties and certain social disorders. The individual that suffers from this disorder commits great lengths to avoid the object. If unavoidable the individual with go through the situation with great distress. By definition, phobias are an extremely strong dislike or fear of someone or something. We may not know a ton about where they come from but we do know how to stop them.
The fear only came when I was around dogs and saw a dog in person, not only that but I began to realize I was also scared of most animals. I wasn’t necessarily scared by seeing them but scared in a sense of getting near any animals or touching them or them touching me. Finding someone that doesn’t have a pet is hard, I learned that the hard way growing up. Most if not all of my friends had dogs growing up which meant I usually couldn’t go over or they had to be put outside and precautions had to be taken before I could go over. When I usually did go over I always heard the same things over and over again “he doesn’t bite” “he’s harmless” “he’s more scared of you than you are of him” these statements would make me feel uncomfortable, no one would really understand what I went through, there were times when I would enter a house not knowing a dog was around only to find out after I heard barks coming towards me which usually led to me running out the house in tears. My fear made life a little
When we were younger, we fear things that no one would rationally be afraid of. There were monsters under the bed, in the closet, and just generally in the dark. Phobias are a thing we all have but nobody knows the actual reason for them. We grow up having these irrational fears and begin to believe them after a while. The biggest fear children have are mostly in the dark, but once we become adults it usually goes away. Nyctophobia is primarily caused by a traumatic past experience, the feeling of being vulnerable or weak, and influences within movies, television, and literature.