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A phobia is an irrational fear of certain situations, objects, activities, or persons. The main symptom is the excessive, unreasonable desire to avoid what you fear. When the fear is beyond your control or is interfering with your daily life, then a hypnotherapist can help to eliminate the phobia and let you regain control of your life. Most phobias are classified into three categories:
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Social phobias - fears involving other people or social situations such as performance anxiety or fears of embarrassment, such as eating in public.
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Specific phobias - fear of a single specific panic trigger such as spiders, dogs, elevators, water, flying, or catching a specific illness.
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Agoraphobia - a generalized fear of leaving home or a small familiar 'safe' area, and of possible panic attacks that might follow.
Many of the specific phobias, such as fear of dogs, heights, spiders and so forth, are extensions of fears that a lot of people have. People with these phobias often go to great lengths to avoid the thing they fear. Phobias vary in severity. Some people can simply avoid the thing they fear, and suffer only mild anxiety. Others have fully-fledged panic attacks with all the associated disabling symptoms. Most people with phobias understand that they are suffering from an irrational fear, but are powerless to override their panic reaction.
