Interesting facts about phobias people Bashny.Net

Almost everyone is afraid of something. One pursues paranoia to remain in a closed room, and the other to be afraid of spiders, but others are scared of heights. It is human nature to be afraid of any thing. Experts have described to date, approximately 300 phobias.

Generally phobias arise from a neurotic character, much rarer – the result of organic lesions of the brain, sometimes the cause can be trauma. If a person has a phobia, he experienced real suffering. The fact that in phobias the person is mentally healthy, his mind is not disturbed and the person is not delirious. As a rule, people are clearly aware that experiencing fear, afraid, and struggling to avoid the causes of phobias. This behavior is quite logical. What is not normal is the danger, in which certain people, in fact imaginary, not real. Scientists were able to prove that the person who suffers from phobia, creative thinking much better. Than those who does not feel fear. Experts say that phobia should be treated, and the sooner the better. Interesting fact: the elderly phobias usually do not occur. Phobias appear in person in age 18 – 19 years old, and continue until 45 – 50 years. Phobias are more common in women than in men, this is due to hormonal status. That's why older people are extremely rare phobia.





Psychologists conducted a study in which it became known that each person has an individual set of different aspects of life that can cause fear or great anxiety. This is the same form of phobia, just like in its infancy. Set of a person can be 3 to 30 such objects that cause anxiety. A person may experience anxiety, both consciously and unconsciously. That is to say, the ground for the development of the phobia. For phobias in human behavior may appear some changes that others may perceive as ironic, and quite aggressive. Fear caused by a phobia, not infrequently accompanied by acts which look quite ridiculous.

Below are the list of the most common phobias:

Toxicophobia – fear of poison.

Niktofobiya – fear of darkness.

Aerophobia – fear of travel across the sky.

Glossofobiya or paraphobia – fear of speaking in public.

Arachnophobia – fear of spiders.

Thanatophobia – the fear of death.

Claustrophobia – fear of confined spaces.

Aquaphobia – fear of water and depth.

Acrophobia – fear of heights.

Autophobia – fear of being alone.

   

Source: mif-facts.com.ua