It is not only children, but adults, too. The root cause of a phobia is the fear, the definition of phobia, but it is because children do not know enough about the world, so instead of embracing and learning about it, they fear it, causing children to have phobias. It also may be due to past experiences that children have phobias, and those past experiences are fear-related.
Some people have phobias because of a deeply seeded fear of something they know they shouldn't be afraid of and therefore cant explain or rationalise, examples of these are baked beans, pigeons and door knobs. The key to phobias is memory, every phobia comes from a bad memory relating to the specific phobia although mostly these occur early in life and are therefore forgotten.
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people have different kind of phobias and the fear of gold is one of the phobias
Phobias are formed when you are uncomfortable or scared of something. Like spiders, or have people watching them eat.
no not at all
You can find a list of phobias on websites dedicated to mental health and psychology, in books about anxiety disorders, or on websites of organizations such as the American Psychiatric Association. There are also specialized resources like the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) that list and categorize phobias.
People either live with the phobias their whole life or they get counselors and the counselors talk them through it and help them face their fear/phobia
people with phobophobia (fear of phobias)
phobophobia=afraid of phobias and testites=afraid of taking tests (people say that in bmy school when we go tests -_-)
Nobody is really certain - if we knew for sure, we could always cure them! It's thought that some phobias start with childhood experiences that are not processed in a healthy manner, but allowed to grow out of proportion. However, there are many phobias that we just don't know about. Sometimes people develop phobias that they cannot explain.
Some are afraid to leave their homes. Some can not hold down a job. Phobias can be quite strong.
Phobias are a subject of much study. It is not yet known how or why people get them.
The phobia of phobias is Phobophobia.
Phobias are an aspect of psychology, which is considered a science. So yes, phobias are a science of sorts