Phobia - what are they?

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What is phobia? There are 3 categories of phobias: 1. Simple or specific phobia is a persisitend and irrational fear of any object or situation. 2. Social phobia experiences great anxiety in situation where he thinks he is being observed or could be criticised. 3. Agoraphobia originally meant the fear of an assembly or market place, but now refers to fear of leaving the house, or going into crowded places like shopping centres orbusy streets. Sufferer usually feas that she might collapse or die from an impending heart attack. A phobia is an irrational fear which is excessive, absurd and out of proportion to the objective risk of the object or situation. It cannot be explained away even thought the victim know that it is illogical. I have seen a person who have phobia to a cat. She will just start to shiver when a cat is coming toward her and scream when the cat is really by her side. I also know someone who start to have breathing difficulty when confined to a dark and small room. My elder has a blood-injury phobia. He cannot stand the sight of blood. At one time, he cut himself. At first he was sitting and holding his hand to stop the bleeding. Suddenly, he started to looke really pale and within second he fainted. But we managed to revive him. I think I suffer from Agorphobia. I am afraid that when I was having shower, I would just fall down and die. But now I no longer have the phobia. I dont know how I manage to overcome it but thank God I am no longer a sufferer. Would you know if you or anyone you know have phobia? How do you deal with it? Do you know which categories you fall into?