Specific phobia

There are two things you should know about me. First: I get really bad nosebleeds. It's been this way for all of my life. To give you an idea of how bad they are, I've had to go to the hospital for them more than twenty times and blood has even started coming out of my nose and mouth, because my sinuses fill with blood and it has nowhere else to go. Second: I always hated field day. I live in California and field day was always in May. If you don't live in California, you might not know…

The concept of fear is an emotion that affects the human body that would be both negative and positive. The negative part of fear is the fact that the person who has fear is experiences is. The positive side of fear is that fear is a built in survival tool that the human brain uses to help keep the body alive. Fear however, will sometimes win. Such a case of fear winning is the fear of being alone. In medical terms it is known as Monophobia. Monophobia is a real fear that does affect people…

There are some things in this world that I simply can't stand. Some of the worst are getting sneezed on, people clicking pens in class, getting homework on a friday night, and when someone leaves the bag of chips on the counter open and then the chips are all soggy and stale the next time you go to eat them. There's nothing worse than a wet juicy sneeze straight to the face. One of my biggest fears/pet peeves is getting sneezed on. Getting sneezed on is the worst because all the greams and…

individual to go into the fight or flight reaction. Phobias are like a fear but are so intense to the point where it interferes with their ability to function and their quality of life. Phobias are described as an abnormal, intense, and irrational fear. The fear can be of a given situation, organism, or object. They have been around for thousands of years, but we’ve recently known them enough to call them by the term, phobia. The origin of the word, Phobias, comes from the word Phobos, which…

seventy-three percent. This bias against the fat has become more than a stigma in recent years, and more of a lifestyle. Pocrescophobia, popularly known as fat phobia, has caused needless distress to countless people. Understanding fat phobia as a social justice issue is crucial to the work of reducing body hatred and eating disorders. “Fat phobia has been defined as the pathological fear of fatness, the fear of the obese and the fear of becoming fat" (Cotugna and Mallick). Due to the new…

Fear of Success in Minorities Success is defined as the accomplishment of aim or purpose. Minorities often have a hard time having a support system around them that allows them to be successful. Whether its family issues, social factors, or even racial boundaries that effect this; The fear of success is what feeds off of these factors. In this paper I want to look at why people fear success, what causes this, and how does one overcome this fear. Looking at all minorities from race, and gender…

to a meeting, the first step can be to try to speak with other girls and maybe to compliment them. The final step will be to go at the meeting with this girl. Every step that can make you to exit from comfort zone and that are on way to combat your phobia, it’s a good one. It will be impressive to see how easy it is 5th step after 4th one and 4th one after 3nd one. This kind of procedure can make us to afford big problems by completing small objectives. And the result will be very impressive,…

Phobias: Fear of something. Wikipedia free dictionary says that phobia is a type of anxiety Disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation the affected persons will go, to great lengths to avoid, typically disproportional to the actual danger posed. My paper is on the treatment of phobias and the medicines that are part of the therapy treatment. A trusted friend or family member is always good to have when confronting the phobias. Web MD is who I quoted for most of…

The Fear of Transformation Imagine being in an unknown environment. There are unusual people, strange noises, and a dreadful vibe floating in the air. The abnormality of this environment is quite discomforting. All these things are what make transformations sources of fear, especially in literature. Such transformations can be seen in the Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" and "The Fall of the House of Usher", Joyce Carol Oates's "Where is Here?", Ishmael Reed's "beware: do not read this poem",…

“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here” Marianne Williamson. The fear of the world didn't just come out of nowhere, fear came from a source and the source of the fear came from the people. Author; Suzanne Collins takes on this heavy topic that “fear is learned” in her book The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is a book that foreplays a government that picks kids age 12-18 from 12 districts and sends them to an arena to kill each other. Collins originally wrote the book to…