Phobia

Phobia is the fear that a person feels when he/she faces certain conditions, events, situations, objects, gestures and other phenomena. During the phobia organism of the person changes a lot. The heart-beating increases, the blood pressure rises, a person begins to shiver and headaches appear.

Phobia is irrational unconscious reaction of the organism accompanied by terrible worries that may barely be controlled during certain situations.

If the person was horrified in the lift, he/she may suffer from claustrophobia later. If the same happened in the street, he/she may begin to suffer from agoraphobia.

There are so many phobias:

Claustrophobia - the fear of confined space.

Agoraphobia – the fear of open space.

Electrophobia – the fear of electricity.

Acrophobia – the fear of height.

Demophobia – the fear of crowds and a great number of people.

Bacillophobia – the fear of viruses and bacteria.