Based on National Phobics Society (NPS), specific phobia results in an unreasonable fear of specific objects or situations. The fear can be either from the presence of the specific object and being presence at a specific situation or from the visualizing and thinking about the presence, and anxiety triggered from such fear can also lead to panic disorder.

Specific phobias are less disturbing in contrast to other anxiety disorders. During an annual period, 13% of women and 4% of men experience a specific phobia. 5% of people with specific phobia has three major phobias in common; fear of blood, injection, and injury. Once the person experiences with a specific situation mentioned above, unlike with other disorders, it can result in the person getting fainted or hyperventilate due to decrease in blood pressure and heart rate (Greist & Jefferson, 2007).

 In most situations, specific phobias can be avoided by the person with the disorder, because it will not be frequent for a person to face the objects, places, and situations he/she fears on a daily basis. For instance, say a person, living in the cities, is afraid of being in a wide field with no ends, it will not be an everyday basis for that person to stay in a wide field since being a city dweller. Specific phobias occurs naturally most of the times without the person’s initial encountering and getting fears built up for a situation or an object, such as fear of the dark, strangers, height, insects, etc…

Are treatments necessary for specific phobia since it can be coped with by the person avoiding the feared situations and/or objects? Treatments are necessary and are recommended and to be advised by a therapist for any type of disorders, because a therapist can help ensure that the methods are carried out thoroughly and correctly to avoid future phobias. Drugs are not recommended to overcome specific phobias because only the repeated encountering with the feared objects and situations can decrease phobias. However there is a short-term phobia control anti-anxiety drug called benzodiazepines to be used as momentary treatment (Luddens, 1998, and Cook & McKernan, 2005).

As statedin three parts, there are three types of phobic disorders with different severity or importance levels. However much they may be different, treatments are available to help a person suppress his/her anxieties or in some cases to wipe out all phobic feelings.

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