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How are anxiety and phobias related?

Profile: RobVL
RobVL on Jul 11, 2016
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Hmmm, phobias as far as I can tell trigger anxiety, I might be off the mark though. So anything that you feel is unwelcome, unexpected or undesirable generally trigger feelings of being anxious. The anxiety is usually a negative and in some cases irrational in nature but a response nevertheless against the fear/phobia.
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Anonymous on Nov 8, 2016
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When you build so much stress it causes so many issues try and be stress-free sometimes you don't know it comes the pain the hurt the sadness the stress now you needed somebody to talk to to take it away to understand the pain
Profile: amiablePeace77
amiablePeace77 on Jul 10, 2017
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anxiety is a natural response, phobia not. anxiety is a natural response when we worry, not feel at ease with something or have a kind of fear related to something known or unknown. when becoming too strong and intervening negatively with our daily routine it becomes a disorder. phobias (the intense fear of something whilst in reality there is little or no danger at all) are not a natural response and rate among anxiety disorders.
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Silverstar17287 on Nov 6, 2017
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A phobia is a type of anxiety. It's an irrational, unreasonable fear of an object or situation. Common phobias may be fear of the heights, dark, fear of certain animals such as snakes or spiders, or fear of blood.
Profile: ForeverRain
ForeverRain on Nov 20, 2018
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Usually anxiety takes form in making you nervous for certain things like, say taking off on a plane or talking in class. A phobia is also pretty vague and could be something like driving in cars or being afraid of heights. Anxiety can also form around phobias. E.g: If you have a phobia of the dark, you might have anxiety before entering a movie theater or going to a sleepover. Both of them form around fear and make you nervous or might make you feel unwilling to do certain things because of them. It is good to know your limits for both, though, because if you overdo it it could result in a panic attack or worse.
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