Phobia

Ever since I was little I’ve had a fear of house centipedes. My mom once told me a story where she woke up and there was a centipede on the ceiling above her I am still horrified of house centipedes to this day. The reasons why they scare the crap out of me are because they move fast, they look very gross, and they hide in unsuspecting corners of the house. Whenever I try to catch them they run very fast and are sometimes hard to catch, for example I went to catch one late at night and when I…

In the article “The Monsters in My Head” (1986), by Frank Langella faced his own monster that he had that was mummy where he went to watch movie about based on that mummy. Later on, his son had his own monster to face as well but he had his father to protect him. He realize that monster was all in his head this whole time and he think his son is in the same with his monster so he talk to his son by helping him fight for his own battles by encouraging to fight for it on his own. He advice to his…

The top indicators that a person may be suffering from social phobia are anxious reactivity social situations, the avoidance of social situations plagued by fear from embarrassment, and disruptions of social functioning (Stravynski, 2007). The purpose of this paper is to explore the history of social phobia, identify the casual factors related to this disorder, and the diagnostic features of this disorder. This paper will also probe into how this disorder causes distress or impairment in a…

meet the standards of my new friends, to killing huge spiders that I would see crawling across my ceiling while i'm trying to fall asleep. However, nothing could compare to the fear of heights that has stuck with me since I was little. That same phobia led to my fear of rollercoasters, a fear I still have today. “It’s a beautiful August day, why not go to the beach? C’mon, I bet the…

Growing up I’ve always experienced great fear whenever I was presented with a social event. I desperately tried to dodge any social occasion that I felt would make me look foolish or embarrass me. I’ve always cared what people thought of me and always felt a need to blend in with the crowd so that I wouldn’t stick out like a sore thumb. I’ve always wondered what was wrong with me because I knew from the very beginning that I wasn’t like the other carefree kids. This fear not only made me isolate…

Dissecting the Presence of Arachnophobia in Northern Kentucky Although Spiders provide a plethora of benefits to our community, they continue to be one of the most feared insects not only in the Northern Kentuckian area, but also throughout the world. In this project, I will hopefully come to a conclusion on why people generally fear spiders, which is an actual diagnosis called Arachnophobia. Spiders are in the arachnid class, which is the reason the condition is called Arachnophobia.…

The purpose of this experiment was to study how irrational animal phobias can be conditioned into an emotionally stable child. The overall aim was to gain a deeper understanding of phobias and possibly to learn how they develop and can be treated. The Little Albert experiment took place in 1920 at John Hopkins University and was conducted by John Watson and his former student Rosalie Rayner. For the experiment they selected a nine-month-old boy from a hospital, who was later nicknamed “Little…

Have you ever been faced with a danger so fierce that your mind became clouded with fear? What are some thoughts you may have if you were in a situation like this? Imagine being trapped in a place with no visible way out, succumbed to intimidating surroundings. In Bram Stoker’s, Dracula, the central idea is fear. Bram Stoker demonstrates this idea by using the literary devices of conflict and point of view. Conflict is when drama is added into the story. Point of view is the perspective that the…

Fearnot-Narrative Fear can ruin your life. Fear is just a mentality. Fear can mean different things to people, it can be the difference between someone not exactly loving spiders, and not hating them and someone having a meltdown every time they see a spider. For some people, a fear can be so stressful and life-crippling that they’ll try anything in their power to avoid their fear even if it means staying at home for days at a time. Fear has the power to prevent people from experiencing the…

What do monsters, and the 1930s have in common? Fear. Fear is an unpleasant motion that can be caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous or evil. Film makers and story tellers, during times of great fear, love to introduce that certain fear into their ideas to make the movie and/or book even scarier. Fear has changed over many decades. For example, in today’s current, film World War Z depicts a virus that makes humans into monsters. This fear is that viruses will lead to the…