First, questions 1 - 3, which we are treating as one response writing prompt:
- In your opinion, how is a phobia different from a normal fear. What might be some "healthy fears"?
- What are you afraid of? (High places? Crowds? Snakes? etc.) Can you think of when you first had this fear? How do you deal with this fear?
- Do you know anyone who is phobic? How does this phobia affect her or his life?
Respond to these prompts in one comment below.
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My own phobia is batrachophobia - yes, if you've read Tan's blog post, or looked up the stem on the board yesterday, I'm afraid of frogs. This is definitely a phobia, not a normal fear. I'm also afraid of crossing the road in front of AUA, but I think that is a sensible fear: people do die running across roads. I still dart across the road twice every day, so my fear of getting killed by a speeding car does not stop me engaging in risky behaviour.
ReplyDeleteIn contrast, I know that frogs are harmless, but in their presence, my heart accelerates, my hands get sweaty, and I feel intense fear. I have no idea why I have this phobic reaction to frogs, but it is a problem. I grew up in the country, and there were lots of frogs around - I had to walk around them, and even worse was the need to hide my weird fear from classmates at school. I still feel fearful in their presence, but my phobia seems to have faded a bit with age, except for the filthy, large cane toads that now infest my family home in Australia. Oddly, the snakes and other animals around didn't worry me. Our parents taught us which snakes were poisonous and do be avoided and which were not, so we used to play with the safe ones, which might sometimes bite but not dangerously.
I my opinion phobia is an unintentionally exaggerated fear of something which seems to be make no sense to others. Personally, I am feared of a frog with no spcific reason; I usually try to aviod it in any ways and it is so difficult to walk through a fresh market.
ReplyDeleteI watched one vedio from Youtube and know a woman feared of mustard, even though she works at Burger king!!. And her fear is seem real to me; she instantly screem whenever she see mustard, even just a picture of it. Then, she usually aviods it by staying in the kitchen.
Even though we encounter what we fear, we do not have any severe reaction; whereas people who has a phobia, when they face a thing that they are afraid of, their will have severe symptoms such as vomiting and fainting.
ReplyDeleteI am afraid of snakes and high places.
-Phobia is fear something deeply;for exsample fear high places, enclosed spaces, and darkness.A normal fear is generally happen to every one such as fear car crash,pickpocket in market,or lost stuff when travell.
ReplyDelete-I'm afraid of small black dot on white background.I haven't and idea when it started.I have to clsoe my eye.
- Me. Not really much because I can avoid.
In my opinion, phobia is different from a normal fear because it leads to impaired social or personal function. If you just feel fear, it might be good to make you more alert and pay more attention to your work. But when you get a panic or phobia, it totally ruins your tasks.
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid of high places. My very first thought about that experience is when I had to climb down the cliff when I was in secondary school's activity at military camp.
I have known someone with phobia, he can precipitate hyperventilation.
if you have a asthma, you fear to take a bad cold. it is coursed of asthma.
ReplyDeleteI am afraid of spiders. when i was about ten year-old, I went to England with my family. i saw a spider walking on the desk. .it is quate big.
I am afraid of high place because I use to work in civil engineer and I have to work in the high building and I feel afraid and my legs was numb all the time I stay there.
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