Phobias range from fear of spiders to trips to the doctor. Phobias can be about anything but intense fear is constant. The difficulty with phobias is they can happen at any part of our life. Kids ages 4 to 11 are prone to fear of animals, nattural phenomena and illness or injury. In adolescence, people are prone to social phobias like scriptophobia (fear of writing one's name in public) or fear of eating in public. Social phobias don't discriminate, women and men share similar frequencies of occurence. The most debilitating phobia, agoraphobia, occurs from age 18 to 35 and it's capable of inciting fear of what they will do when they're afraid. Essentially, they fear their own reaction.
From healthy children to strong adults, phobias can capture a person and cripple them with fear. Research says that having a phobia is constant because it mirrors our biological growth and matches itself to an object that commands fear at that person's age. Then the question is what can trigger a phobia's onset? A situation that is incredibly stressful, sad, depressing or terrifying can leave an indelible mark on a person that the sight of this object again will cause the fear to recur and become a phobia.
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