Characteristics of Phobias
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- Created on: 17-03-20 15:36
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- Characteristics of Phobias
- Emotional
- Out of proportion to the danger proposed.
- Bought on by the presence or thought of the feared thing.
- Feelings of anxiety and panic.
- Behavioural
- This makes a phobia different to regular fears,
- Avoidance of the feared thing or stress response - fainting or freezing.
- It can lead to disruption in normal life.
- Defintions of Phobias
- A type of anxiety disorder - they cause extreme anxiety.
- Irrational fears that produce a conscious avoidance of the feared thing.
- Cognitive
- A level of resistance to rational arguments against the phobia.
- Irrational thought processes.
- The person knows their fear is irrational - making it a phobia.
- Emotional
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