Causes:
It is generally accepted that phobias arise from a combination of external events and internal predispositions. Many specific phobias can be traced back to a specific triggering event, usually a traumatic experience at an early age. It is believed that heredity, genetics, and brain chemistry combined with life-experiences play a major role in the development of anxiety disorders, phobias and panic attacks.
Treatment:
Various methods are claimed to treat phobias. Their proposed benefits may vary from person to person.
Emotional Freedom Technique, a psychotherapeutic alternative medicine tool, also considered to be pseudoscience by the mainstream medicine, is allegedly useful.These treatment options are not mutually exclusive. Often a therapist will suggest multiple treatments.
Types of Phobias
Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning
Claustrophobia – fear of confined spaces.
Pyrophobia – fear of fire.
Heliophobia – fear of sunlight
Nyctophobia, Achluophobia, Lygophobia, Scotophobia – fear of darkness
Zoophobia – a generic term for animal phobias
Xenophobia – fear or dislike of foreigners
