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Phobias We all have fears, but they are not necessarily strong enough to cause us problems. We may not like spiders or snakes and may go out of our way to avoid them, but this is quite different to having a phobia about something. The phobia suffers the most acute fright. It is as powerful as being in fear of losing one’s life. It brings on sweats, palpation of the heart, nausea, fainting and the feeling that the hairs on the arms or the back of the neck are standing on end. A phobia is an irrational and persistent fear of a particular object, activity, or situation. A fear, however, can not be classified as a phobia unless it causes unreasonable distress or interference with normal functioning. Phobia is a learned response; we are not born with it. Phobia may originate from an unpleasant experience; often they appear without apparent cause. But it doesn’t necessarily have to have been caused by a terrible trauma; it can stem from something that now seems insignificant but made an impression on you when were your a child. Or it can be as simple as a mistaken reaction that has become a habit or a reaction ‘caught’ from your parent or someone you admire or even from someone you don’t like. Phobias can be of anythin