The two most common phobias are agoraphobia and social anxiety disorder. These two conditions can detrimentally affect a person´s ability to live a normal and productive life. Dealing with excessive worry like this can lead to physical and emotional complications as well because you are cut off from interacting with others and engaging in activities.

The source of fear is usually caused by a combination of hereditary, biological and environmental factors. These contributing factors lead to a confused an inappropriate response to certain situations, people and activities. For them, their fight or flight response is triggered unnecessarily and the struggle to restore their body and mind to order is usually debilitating. 

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Phobias are intense fears that are either very specific in nature or more generalized. Some of these conditions, while disturbing, cause little discernable impact on your life, while others are crippling. Specific Phobias tend to be caused by specific triggering events. For example, your life long fear of elevators stems from being stuck on a rollercoaster for 10 minutes when you were 8. 

Of course an elevator is not the same as a rollercoaster but your mind has made a connection between these two travelling, confined spaces and thus your fear is born. It is possible to control your reactions to this uncomfortable situation. You need to confront your body´s natural flight response with positive counter thoughts.
 
What is a phobia? There are a lot of anxiety conditions out there that people have to deal with daily. Some are common and things we´ve heard of like agoraphobia and social phobia and some are less common or less well known. These conditions arise when the preoccupation with worry has become so acute that you are no longer engaging in your normal routines. 

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