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It is not always known why or how a phobia develops. The most common cause tends to be a traumatic exposure to the thing the person is phobic about. Such as someone who has a phobia about Spiders may have been bitten by one and a fear of that happening again can develop into a full on phobia. Or if a loved one gets hurt in a car accident, one might develop a phobia and fear themselves and/or their loved ones getting into cars.

Some phobias appear to have no known cause.

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