Types of phobias

Types of phobias

In modern society each person to a greater or lesser extent, but is afraid of something, and can even someone. At the same time many do not even mean that their fear developed into one of a type of phobias long ago.

What main phobias exist?

Persuasive fears not only destroy the personality, create difficulties in her life, besides, they are capable to do powerful harm to its activity. So, psychologists distinguish the following main types of phobias of the person:

  • social are not just fear of performances before public, and avoiding of performance of public actions, fear to be among crowd or just on the street. If to start treatment of a phobia, it can develop into a hermetical way of life when the personality stops contacting to society;
  • concrete phobias are fear of certain, especially individual situations or objects;
  • agoraphobia – intolerance of open spaces, the areas, open doors. It is scientifically proved that women more often than men are afraid to be on the empty street. If to ignore treatment, for the rest of the natural the person remains the prisoner of own dwelling.

What phobias happen?

Further the most popular are mentioned, the types of phobias and fears which are often met today:

  1. Gamophobia. Many do not wish to go to the altar at all not because do not love the partner, and because of this phobia.
  2. Hemophobia. Not only small children are afraid of blood, but also quite mature persons.
  3. Glossofobiya. A shiver on a body, palms sweat, in a mouth dries up: fear of public statements is inherent nearly in every second.
  4. Klaustrfoobiya. So fear of the closed spaces is called.
  5. Lokiofobiya. Alas, but there are women who hesitate to give birth to the child just on the fact that they feel fear of childbirth.
  6. Necrophobia. Nobody is eternal, and there is a category of people who in panic are afraid of death.
  7. Entomofobiya. Entomofoba are afraid of any insects.
  8. Okhlofobiya. It nothing but fear to come to be among crowd.

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Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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