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Description and Symptoms of Specific phobias
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Tags: specific phobia, anxiety disorder, simple phobia, fears, animal phobia, zoophobia, environmental phobia, behavioral inhibition, tantrums, shaking, symptoms
A phobia, is a strong, persistent fear of situations, objects, activities, or persons. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive, unreasonable desire to avoid the feared subject.
| | Excessive or irrational fear of a specific object or situation. |
| | Avoiding the object or situation, or enduring it with great distress. |
| | Physical symptoms of anxiety or a panic attack, such as a pounding heart, nausea or diarrhea, sweating, trembling or shaking, numbness or tingling, problems with breathing (shortness of breath), feeling dizzy or lightheaded, feeling like you are choking. |
| | Anticipatory anxiety, which involves becoming nervous ahead of time about being in certain situations or coming into contact with the object of your phobia. (For example, a person with a fear of dogs may become anxious about going for a walk because he or she may see a dog along the way.) |
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