List and types of all Phobias
It is believed by scientists that a common ancestor of primates, including the human, evolved the ability to develop phobias as a result of the dangers which plagued them.
This is not to be confused with the idea that humans are born with specific phobias built-in, but that their genetics are coded to have a tendency to develop some fears more easily than others. There are five dangers which predominantly affected the human’s evolutionary ancestor:
Phobia of dark
Fear and avoidance of the dark resulted in minimal deaths and injuries to pre-humans caused by that which they were incapable of seeing.
Heights
Avoiding heights prevented fatal falls from bringing an end to one who could possibly have future offspring
Spiders/snakes/cats
Poisonous spiders and snakes are stealthy killers who appear mostly harmless to an uninformed being. Big cats, such as lions and tigers were the pinnacle predators of pre-humans in the wild.
Being alone
The idea of there being safety in numbers is founded in animal instinct. It can be observed biologically in the swarm.
Enclosed Spaces
Anxiety of enclosed spaces resulting in a fight-or-flight response would allow pre-humans to quickly realize the danger of falling into a hole, being trapped in a cave, etc.
It must be understood, however, that these behaviors themselves are not genetic traits. Predisposition to being a victim of these phobias is what is coded for within the human DNA. This does mean that those who have a family history of a specific phobia will be far more likely to develop the phobia themselves
Types of phobia’s : Specific phobia
There’re hosts of examples for ‘Phobias (fears)in adults & children
• Hospital phobias :
Extreme and irrational fear of medical procedures involving injections or ‘Hypodermic needles’.
inherited hypersensitivity to pain and extreme blood pressure increase due to fond smell or availability of doctors into the operational room, examination rooms, hospitals, white lab coats, hospital gowns, doctors, dentists, nurses, the antiseptic smell associated with offices and hospitals,etc.
Phobia of crowds/mobs :
“an abnormal, persistent fear of crowds/mobs. This is a social phobia that can have a huge impact on every aspect of the sufferer’s life. It is, however, curable according to modern psychological treatment techniques. A social phobia is a “paralyzing fear”.
Port-traumatic stress syndrome (PTS). “Experts, however, say that a true phobic reaction is a whole different category of terror, a central nervous system wildfire that’s impossible to mistake.” The phobic’s reaction is hugely exaggerated to include an imminent fear of death and “an overwhelming need to flee.
the individual does not consciously think about the thing or situation that they fear and they certainly do not fear it when it is not imminently available. A phobic on the other hand spends a substantial amount of time away from their fear “dreading the next encounter and developing elaborate strategies to avoid it.”
they tend to feel shame for having had such a problem or weakness in the first place. “the cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system…not in your thoughts, habits, beliefs, strategies or any other thing. many individuals still refuse to part with their identity, this type of therapy can be ineffective is because many people enjoy the talk therapy. It gives them a chance to overcome a little bit og their fear of being with others in a group because they are all sharing the same fear. This sense of validation is crucial to many sufferers.
• Social rejection
‘Social rejection’ exists in a variety of different forms and includes both interpersonal rejection or peer rejection, and romantic rejection. It occurs when an individual is deliberately excluded from a social relationship or social interaction. A person can be rejected on an individual basis or by an entire group of people. rejection can occur either actively by bullying, teasing, or ridiculing, or passively by ignoring the rejected person (e.g. the silent treatment). Rejection can be perceived when it is not actually present.
Rejection can become a problem when it is excessive, when the relationship is important, when the rejection is by an entire group, or when the individual is particularly sensitive to rejection.
Rejection can potentially lead to a number of adverse psychological consequences such as loneliness, reduced self-esteem, aggression, and Clinical depression.
• Rejection sensitivity :
Rejection sensitivity is a tendency to anxiously expect, readily perceive, and over-react to social rejection.[8] For those who have a high level of rejection sensitivity, an ambiguous social interaction may be perceived as rejection. This can lead to defensiveness and self-fulfilling prophecies. Parents and peers. Attachment theory suggests that rejection from parents could lead to rejection sensitivity. One study found that rejection sensitivity in adulthood was related to teasing experiences during childhood, but not the amount of support received from childhood friends.[9] This indicates that friendships are not enough to protect children from rejection experiences.
• Speech anxiety : ‘Nervous System’ responding to the situation with a “fight or flight” reaction. These symptoms include acute hearing, increased heart rate, increased blood pressure, dilated pupils, increased perspiration, increased oxygen intake, stiffening of neck/upper back muscles, and dry mouth. The verbal symptoms include, but are not limited to a tense voice, a quivering voice, and repetition of “Umms” and “Ahhs” which tend to comfort anxious speakers. during public speech, If you don’t get up in front of an audience you never have to worry about stage fright. Some have been able to dance or perform in public as long as they do not have to speak, or even speak (such as in a play) or sing as long as they cannot see the audience or they feel that they are a character or stage persona rather than presenting as themselves.
• Phobias of thunder/lightning :
An abnormal fear of thunder and lightning, a type of a specific phobia. During a thunderstorm, children typically hide in seemingly secure windowless places, such as a cupboard under a staircase or under their bed. Adults and teenagers share the same thought mechanism as the aforementioned and will essentially seek solace anywhere one cannot see or hear the storm.
ZOOPHOBIAS :
• Phobia of cats : It is a persistent, irrational fear of ‘cats’. People who suffer from Ailurophobe may fear physical contact, such as bites and scratches, and may also fear the perceived supernatural nature of cats.
• Phobia of ‘Spiders’ : They’re also termed as ‘Creepy crawlers’ and usually ‘Women’ are susceptible to finding them in their ‘Houses’. They scream and run away from the spot immediately knowing a terror/phobia behind it.
• Misandry/Misogyny/Misanthropy : The hatred or strong prejudice before males/females and hate, dislike, distrust, or hatred of the human species, or a disposition to dislike and/or distrust other people.
• Masculism : It consists of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies primarily based on the experiences of men.
slaves — are deprived of personal freedom and compelled to perform labour or services. The term includes the status or condition of those persons who are treated as the property of another person, household, company, corporation or government. This is referred to as “chattel slavery”.
Slaves are held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase, or birth, and are deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to receive compensation in return for their labor. As such, slavery is one form of unfree labor.
Although outlawed in nearly all countries today, slavery is still secretly practiced in many parts of the world. There are an estimated 27 million victims of slavery worldwide.
the illegal slave trade (mostly in Africa) deals with slaves who are rural people forced to move to cities, or those purchased in rural areas and sold into slavery in cities. These moves take place due to loss of subsistence agriculture, thefts of land, and population increases.
The images that are projected portraits a slight overview of how the evolution of ‘Phobia’ from renaissance era to the modern compatibility of human race to readjust themselves out of extreme stress and pressure they have experienced in there life span and how some of them have either sacrificed or have had the courage to fight till the last breath of there life. People have been on ‘Human trafficking’& ‘sale ‘ as usually ‘Women trafficking’ in many parts of the world in a form of “Prostitutes/hors” sold in ‘red light areas’ who’re even immature to understand the exact meaning come across with the catastrophe by there own Kith & kilns’ (blood relations) and ‘agents’ as well working for the commission on larger prospective. It’s been consider out of the survey conducted so far especially in certain areas of “India” itself that some girls of between ’12-14 & 19-25’ of ages were found in just “2”-2” sleeper cells with bear dingy room or cells as they are called with enormous suffocation and hard to breathe air ventilation holes to survive for a longer period. The ‘Phobia’ of getting trapped inside definitely takes it’s toll not only on their health but over the ‘Cosmopolitan society’ as well! There examples of ‘Developing or malnutrition countries’ who sneak out from the border areas for the hope of seeking a better life but get trapped by border police with ‘Phobia ‘ of been beaten to death and to be send to their respected countries again.
Phobia of vomiting :
1) Also called throwing up or emesis is the forceful expulsion of the contents of one’s stomach through the mouth and sometimes the nose. Vomiting may result from many causes, ranging from gastritis or poisoning to brain tumors, or elevated intracranial pressure (ICP).
People who are accustomed to ‘Vomiting’ are usually the ‘Sexagenarians/octogenarians’ in their sixties or eighties who usually scares their early death and have the ‘Phobia’ of surviving more than their expected life span.
Phobia of youth :
‘Youth’ itself defines the age difference between being a non-experienced individual and the adolescent age of understanding the right and wrong’s of taking decisions in common parlance. It’s ‘Phobia’ could effect the democracy of any nation as well as the ‘Political & economical’ wastage in huge quantity with serious impacts in undermining the availability of ‘Natural/non-natural resources’ and destroying the same for personal interests thereupon. A slight defect can cause problem to become a mature ‘Parent’ in the near future and difficulty in imbibing the ‘Genes’ in the future generation.
‘Personality psychology’ can be an utmost example to overcome the ‘Phobia’ as it helps one in determining the dynamic and organized set of characteristics possessed by a person.
Phobia of National Security :
It is meant to handle extraordinarily difficult or life-threatening criminal situations, such as terrorism, hostage, life threatening situations, Kidnapping and serving high risk arrest warrants in cities too remote but the “Phobias’ included in it by civilians to get affected by any such contingency of a kind is rather disastrous as the ‘Society’ takes itself as quite or completely vulnerable to protect themselves from any ‘War’ or ‘Migration’ process on a very large scale with shifting of ‘Houses & land’ to rehabilitate in an “Alien city” again. It’s not a piece of cake and it requires a very long process as it cannot be completed in a day.
STALKINGS
Is a legal term for a pattern of offensive behavior involving repeated harassment or other forms of invasion of a person’s privacy in a manner that causes fear to its target?
Statutes vary between jurisdictions but may include such acts as:
• repeated physical following
• unwanted contact (by letter or other means of communication)
• observing a person’s actions closely for an extended period of time
• contacting family members, friends, or associates inappropriately
Stalking can also include seeking and obtaining the person’s personal information in order to contact them; e.g. looking for their details on computers, electoral rolls, personal files and other material with the person’s personal details without their consent. Personal details include their date of birth, marital status, home address, email address, telephone number (landline and mobile), where they work, or which school, college or university they go to; and personal information on their family and friends and any other sensitive and confidential information (e.g. medical conditions and disabilities etc.) Victims may or may not be aware that it is happening, and the perpetrators may or may not have malicious intent. Stalkers may even have a sincere but misguided belief that their victims love them, or have a desire to help the victims. Contrary to crimes that consist of a single act, stalking consists of a series of actions which in themselves can be legal, such as calling on the phone, sending gifts, or sending emails. Most cases of stalking never escalate to extreme levels of violence or harassment.
This allows stalkers to feel angry at victims without experiencing empathy, or they may feel that they are entitled to behave as they please toward the victims. Viewing victims as “lesser,” “weak” or otherwise seriously flawed can support delusions that the victims needs to be rescued, or punished, by the stalkers. Stalkers may slander or defame the character of their victims which may isolate the victims and give the stalkers more control or a feeling of power.
Stalkers may use manipulative behavior such as bringing legal action against their victims, or threatening to commit suicide in order to coerce victims to intervene – all methods of forcing victims to have contact with the stalkers.
Stalkers may use threats and violence to frighten their victims. They may engage in vandalism and property damage (usually to victims’ cars or residences). They may use physical attacks that are mostly meant to frighten. Less common are sexual assaults or physical attacks that leave serious physical injuries.
Identifying five types of stalkers :
• Rejected stalkers: pursue their victims in order to reverse, correct, or avenge a rejection (e.g. divorce, separation, termination).
• Resentful stalkers: pursue a vendetta because of a sense of grievance against the victims – motivated mainly by the desire to frighten and distress the victim.
• Intimacy seekers: The intimacy seeker seeks to establish an intimate, loving relationship with their victim. To them, the victim is a long sought-after soul mate, and they were ‘meant’ to be together.
• Incompetent suitor: despite poor social/courting skills, have a fixation, or in some cases a sense of entitlement to an intimate relationship with those who have attracted their amorous interest. Their victims are most often already in a dating relationship with someone else.
• Predatory stalker: spy on the victim in order to prepare and plan an attack – usually sexual – on the victim.
PHOBIAS OF HEIGHTS :
Fear of Flying :
* Fear of enclosed or confined spaces.
* Fear of heights from the ‘Zenith’ of something.
* Fear of having panic attacks in certain places, where escape would be difficult and/or embarrassing.
* Fear of hijacking or terrorism.
* Fear of turbulence.
* Fear of flying over water or night flying.
* Fear of crashing resulting in injury or death.
Fear of “Heights” in any uncommon situation that is uncanny in every direction whether simple or difficult to be overcome could lead any situation to become ‘unacceptable & hard to be reached’ process with no option whatsoever left in hand to come out of the woods with clean pair of heels.
Generally, ‘Heights’ become ‘the cradle to the grave’ for those who underestimate the specific height of the ‘Pinnacle’ of an object while miscalculating the amount of impact level from the ground till the maximum height it could reach to. For ex: – ‘The rollercoaster’ as it’s a man-made titanic machine to take humans to extreme heights and remarkable speeds at every intervals to have impact over there bodies with ‘G’ forces to haunt the 2 minute ride safely but intrigues one with ‘High substitution of adrenalin Phobia’ of either getting thrown away from the seat or the stoppage of the ‘Car’ in the middle of the ride session.
PHOBIA OF HIJACKING OR MID-AIR TERRORISM :
Aircraft hijacking (also known as skyjacking and aircraft piracy) is the take-over of an aircraft, by a person or group, usually armed. In most cases the pilot is forced to fly according to the orders of the hijackers.
Alternatively one of the hijackers flies the plane himself. The latter was the case in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center; hijackers took flying lessons as preparation, or were selected by Al-Qaeda based partly on flying skills.
Most aircraft hijackings are committed to use the passengers as hostages in an effort to obtain transportation to a given location, to hold them for ransom, or, as in the case of the American planes that were hijacked to Cuba during the 1960s and 70s, the release of comrades being held in prison. Another common motive is publicity for some cause or grievance. Since the use of hijacked planes as suicide missiles in September 11, 2001 attacks, hijacking is a different kind of security threat. Hijackings for hostages have usually followed a pattern of negotiations between the hijackers and the authorities, followed by some form of settlement — not always the meeting of the hijackers’ original demands — or the storming of the aircraft by armed police or Special Forces to rescue the hostages. Prior to September, 2001, the policy of most airlines was for the pilot to comply with hijackers’ demands in the hope of a peaceful outcome. Since then, policies have reversed course, in favor of arming and armoring the cockpit.
The brave “September 9/11” mid-air commuters inside the cockpit of American airlines were horrified with the ‘Phobia’ of getting slain inside the airbus was acute enough & shameful enough for the authorities in the ground for permitting the hijackers to enter the Airbus and cause panic to the innocent passengers with usual ransom and a power to control the entire airline with terror. Hat’s-off to those souls who have risked their lives and sacrifice for others to learn a lesson and also to teach to overcome ‘Phobia’ inside the cockpit.
Ransom : A hostage is a person or entity which is held by a captor.Ransom is the practice of holding a prisoner to extort money or property to secure their release, or it can refer to the sum of money involved.
In ‘typography ransom note effect’ is the result of using many different typefaces in a publication. It takes its name from the appearance of a stereotypical ransom note, with words or letters cut randomly from a magazine or newspaper and arranged to form the message, in order to avoid using handwriting which could identify the writer. The term is also used to describe poor typesetting or layout created by an untrained Web developer or desktop publishing system user.
PHOBIA OF REINCARNATION :
‘Reincarnation’ or ‘Re-birth’ is the most sophisticated case or medical terminology that still being untouched by re known researchers & experts as they are still searching for some remarkable true stories which are yet to be explored by the world. It’s about surviving death to be reborn in a new body. The current cases related to ‘Reincarnation’ is the re-birth of “God “ in a form of ‘Hanumanji’ (The god of Indians) where one ‘Parrot and one six-years-old’ (Boy) could become like a monkey and a parrot to enchant the holy hymns of “Ramayan”. Three brothers who are partly monkeys and partly human body and excitingly lives only over the branch of a tree. They remember exactly everything they did in previous birth and remember the address where thy used to live. The entire book can be remembered at a time without even looking at a glance. They have a ‘Phobia’ what will they become in the next life what ‘God’ will decide for them. They could even become an insect!
According to such beliefs, a new personality is developed during each life in the physical world, but some part of the being remains constantly present throughout these successive lives as well.[1]
The afterlife or life after death is a generic term for a continuation of existence after death, typically in a spiritual or ghostlike afterworld. Deceased persons are usually believed to go a specific region or plane of existence in this afterworld, often depending on the type of person they are and the life they lived. Some believe the afterlife includes some form of preparation for the soul to be transferred to another body (reincarnation).
Phobia of ‘Vampire’ :
‘Vampires’ as if now introduced into the lime light or senses of the ‘Society’ out of various electronic mediums in a form of novels or pictures related to ‘Bloodsucking’ homosapiens with influence of ‘Evil spirits’ has haunted each one of us to terrify to the extreme limit and has so far indeed! able to project a very different aspect of the real presence of ‘Vampires’ among us. Sometimes they’re treated ‘Real’ when some people pretend themselves to call them as ‘Vampires/Dracula’s’ in order to keep themselves at bay from the normal society but they are been rejected by our society ever since they are known to be the cursers of human life to terrify our young children and to com up with the spooky tales of changing the entire perception the way how we look at this world! It’s only the tales and not real; no such human-being exist to have drink the ‘Blood’ of another fellow human-being. It’s fake and shouldn’t be given first-hand preference especially by tiny-totters as they get affected very easily.!
Phobia of a ‘Dark’ :
The fear of the dark is heightened by imagination: a stuffed toy may appear a monster in the dark. Nightmares contribute to the fear of the dark as well: after waking up because of nightmare the child may refuse to go to bed without lights on. Fear of dark is a phase of child development.[1] Most observers report that fear of the dark seldom appears before the age of 2 years.[2] Fear of the dark is not fear of the absence of light, but fear of possible or imagined dangers concealed by the darkness.[3
Nightmare is the term currently used to refer to a dream which causes a strong unpleasant emotional response from the sleeper, typically fear or horror, or the sensations of pain, falling, drowning or death. Such dreams can be related to physical causes such as a high fever, or psychological ones such as psychological trauma or stress in the sleeper’s life, or can have no apparent cause. If a person has experienced a psychologically traumatic situation in life, for example, a person who may have been captured and tortured the experience may come back to haunt them in their nightmares. Sleepers may waken in a state of distress and be unable to get back to sleep for some time..
Phobia of insult/torture :
is “any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a person information or a confession, punishing him for an act, a person has committed or is suspected of having committed, intimidating, coercing him or discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by, at the instigation of, with the consent or acquiescence of a public official. The picture instigate a sense of ‘Internal processing of the brain’ when one takes the peer pressure to listen to the negativities and unable to take decisions with all the trash been stored in one’s mind and hard to be resisted for long. It’s that pain and anxiety that creeps inside to effect the functional outlook of answering the questions asked whether really important or are been taken silly for the ideas to emerge therein. It’s again be considered as direct insult either intentionally or with an intention to deceive one in order to cast a slur on one’s image. One can’t eat a humble pie if it doesn’t suits him to a tea and will respond or take ‘Revenge’ if necessary!
Phobia of depression :
‘Depression phobia’ exists due to hosts of reasons for ex: -
* Downturn in mood; Environment; Internal psychological factors;
Biological models; hereditary, neurotransmitter, hormonal, illness;
Mental disorders with depressions; etc.
* Substances commonly used or promoted to treat depression (effective or not)
• Chocolate
• Antidepressants
• Coffee
• Magnesium taurate
• SAMe
• Saint John’s Wort
• Tobacco
• Alcohol
• Marijuana
• Omega-3 fatty acid.