Fear versus Phobia

I Have a teeny tiny fear for spiders . But i think i have a phobia about Dark Waters .. Abuot something lurking underneath it!!

I think fear becomes a phobia, when you have a panic response to whatever it is that you're afraid of. I have claustrophobia, and my husband has arachnophobia. We don't have any poisonous spiders (or even spiders that bite) where we live, but he starts sweating, hopping up on furniture and screaming at me to get spiders out of the house when he sees them.

I feel the same way in elevators; I can force myself into them using reason if I have to, but the second the doors seem to be taking too long to open, I feel the adrenaline coursing through my body and my throat constricting.

I think the level of how it effects your life and day to day living is what seperates the two. I have a fear towards palmetto bugs. If I see one yes I can kill it if I have to, in other words if no one else is around to do it for me, but if it isn't dead yeah my feet will stay up off the floor till it is but it won't keep me from doing things that need to be done. Still it is just a major fear.

On the other hand I have a phobia when it comes to crowds. This will keep me from shopping, going to malls, doctor's offices, sometimes even the route I take to places if the traffic is too crowded. It can even keep me at home instead of going to family gatherings due to having too many people there. This is something that effects how I live and how my daily life progresses.

We all fear something...a phobia is essentially a deeply rooted fear that has no basis in fact.

A fear becomes a phobia when one, confronted with the object of fear, enters into a panic state. This panic state can be anything from hysterics to 'freezing'.

A phobia can also be contributed to by paranoia...a certainty that if such and such happened the result will be disasterous to the person experiencing the phobia.

Phobias can be incapactitating, simple fears over come.

Phobics can be 'healed' and become functional in the area of the phobia, but they will rarely completely over come the fear.

my mother has fear from caterpillars,especially the brown one oftenly found in guava tree we call it here in the philippines as (dadangkal), i do not know why she is afraid of that thing, everytime we show caterpillars to her, she scream and shout, and almost catch her breath,,,until now she is afraid of it, she is almost 60 yrs old, we dont know how she will overcome that fear...

well... it happens to all buddy in some way in some type... and with time it one rid off...

Yes it may be phobia.

Im only scared of two kinds of spiders the Black Widow & the brown recluse, because they are the only ones that can hurt you around here, A few weeks ago I had fixed myself something to drink I sat my drink down then picked it up agian a few minutes later put it up to my mouth and there was a giant spider in it... it must have drop from the ceiling...It was brown, I never actually seen a brown recluse, so i looked it up on the internet... and to my horror i seen that it was a brown recluse...
Other than that im insanely afriad of hieghts...roller coasters(that go upside down)oh and flying

fear is something which we know about,phobias are something we are afraid of for no reasons and affects our functioning as normal human beings,ex heights,closed or open spaces,fearof animals,berds,insects,etc,to over come these phobias is to use the gradual exposure technique and autosuggestion,try it and see,it works.

Ummmm. I would say that you do have a phobia where this particular type of spider is concerned.

The only irrational fear that I have is of dead animals. It makes no sense, I know, but I am terrified of them. It doesn't matter if it's an animal I knew or not, or what kind of animal, if it's dead and I see it, I absolutely freak out and there is no way I can handle disposing of it.