Fear and Phobia

Fear is a common phenomenon that every person on earth has in them, there are things we are afraid of as a human being. In today's article, I will be opening our eyes to the meaning of fear, the types of fear so as to know the things you are afraid of, things that causes fear in you.

What is Fear?

Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain or harm.

What is phobia?

Phobia leads to a fear response even when you're not in danger.

According to Soukup's study, the fear arche types include:

• The procrastinator ----- someone that feels reluctant to do whatever he/she wants to do on time, giving it different dates before achieving the goal.

• The rule follower------ these are people that sets rules to follow.

• The people pleaser------- these sets of people do things caring about what people will say and think, they want to please people so that they can't see them as a good person and at the end of the day, they end up making mistakes.

• The outcast------ these are those that finds it difficult to mingle with people, they see themselves different from the normal people so there the society also treat them as an outcast.

• The self doubter------- this is the worst set of people, they don't believe in themselves. They always doubt their abilities to attain great heights.

• The excuse maker------ these are people that gives excuse for not achieving anything, once they have something to do, there will definitely be a reason why they couldn't do it again.

• The pessimist----- these are the people that sees the worst aspect of things than its good aspect. Before they even try, they would have seen that it's not going to be a success.

Types of fear

There are several types of fear but I will be giving us just four [4]

• Fight

• Flight

• Freeze

• Fawn

In our society today we have different kinds of phobia, that is things that cause us to fear, and today I will be sharing with us eleven [11] common phobias.

Common phobias

• Atychiphobia------ fear of failure

• Thanatophobia-------Fear of death

• Nosophobia--------- fear of developing a disease

• Arachnophobia------ fear of spiders

• Vehophobia--------- fear of driving

• Claustrophobia--------- fear of enclosed spaces

• Acrophobia--------fear of heights

• Aerophobia-------- fear of flying

• Aquaphobia-------- fear of water

• Enochlophobia------- fear of crowd

• Pyrophobia------- fear of fire

In conclusion

These are the common phobias in our society today and every individual have one phobia or the other, I myself l'm acrophobic😢😢😢😢 I don't go near high heights atall and this had been my fear since I was little but have been trying to overcome so also you can work on your phobia.

I hope you enjoy reading this and I will be expecting your comments in my box. Enjoyyy.