Phobias Pt 2

Phobias Ep. 2

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• As you read more text, you are improving your vocabulary

• There are many things that you can learn from reading texts: nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.

• These new words can be used in your writing to improve your marks for language

• Take words that you think you will use in your essay and practice writing with them

Acrophobia

Acrophobia, or the fear of heights, impacts more than 6% of people. This fear can lead to anxiety attacks and avoidance of high places. People who suffer from this phobia may go to great lengths to avoid high places such as bridges, towers, or tall buildings.

While in some cases this fear of heights may be the result of a traumatic experience, current thinking suggests that this fear may have evolved as an adaptation to an environment in which a fall from heights posed a significant danger. 

While it is common for people to have some degree of fear when encountering heights, this phobia involves a severe fear that can result in panic attacks and avoidance behaviors.

Multiple Choice

Acrophobia affects 6% of the population, meaning that in 200 people...

• 12 people will have acrophobia

• 32 people will have acrophobia

• 6 people will have acrophobia

Multiple Select

What are the places that people with acrophobia will not go to? (pick all the correct answers)

• bridges

• the sea

• tall buildings

• towers

Aerophobia

Aerophobia, or the fear of flying, affects between 10% and 40% of U.S. adults despite the fact that airplane accidents are actually very uncommon. Around 1 out of every 3 people have some level of fear of flying. Some of the common symptoms associated with this phobia include trembling, rapid heartbeat, and feeling disoriented. People with this phobia often feels like they are out of place.

The fear of flying sometimes causes people to avoid flying altogether. It is often treated using exposure therapy, in which the client is gradually and progressively introduced to flying. The individual may start by simply imagining themselves on a plane before slowly working up to actually sitting on a plane and finally sitting through a flight.

Multiple Choice

Some of the common symptoms associated with this phobia include trembling, rapid heartbeat, and feeling disoriented. What do the word disoriented mean? (hint: look for the answer nearby)

• they have nausea

• They feel sick

• They are in the orient

• They don't know where they are

Multiple Choice

The individual may start by simply imagining themselves on a plane before slowly working up to actually sitting on a plane and finally sitting through a flight.

This is how they treat for acrophobia. If you have a fear of spiders, using this method, which step would be the first one?

• holding a spider by yourself

• playing with a toy spider

• looking at pictures of spiders

• holding a real spider with supervision

Cynophobia

Cynophobia, or the fear of dogs, is often associated with specific personal experiences such as being bitten by a dog during childhood. Such events can be quite traumatic and can lead to fear responses that last well into adulthood. This particular phobia can be quite common.

This phobia is not just a normal apprehension of unfamiliar canines; it is an irrational and excessive fear that can have a serious impact on a person's life and functioning.

For example, a person with cynophobia might feel unable to walk down a certain street because they know that there is a dog living in that neighborhood. This avoidance can impact the individual's ability to function in their daily life and make it difficult to get to work, school, or other events outside of the home.

Multiple Choice

Such events can be quite traumatic and can lead to fear responses that last well into adulthood.

What does the word such refer to?

• traumatic childhood story

• personal experience related to dogs

• having a dog that died when young

• seeing vicious dogs all the time

Multiple Choice

How much is a dozen? (ingat lagi tak?)

• 10

• 6

• 12

• 18

Multiple Choice

In the last paragraph, the article suggests that cynophobia affects someone's ability to function daily because :

• They do not go out at all

• They can not have pets

• They have dog nigtmares

• They only think about dogs

Trypanophobia

Trypanophobia is the fear of injections, a condition that can sometimes cause people to avoid medical treatments and doctors. Like many phobias, this fear often goes untreated because people avoid the triggering object and situation. Estimates suggest that as many as 20% to 30% of adults are affected by this type of phobia.

When people with this phobia do have to have an injection, they may experience feelings of extreme dread and elevated heart rate leading up to the procedure. Some people even pass out during the injection.

Because these symptoms can be so distressing, people with this phobia sometimes avoid doctors, dentists, and other medical professionals even when they have some type of physical or dental ailment that needs attention.

Multiple Choice

When people with this phobia do have to have an injection, they may experience feelings of extreme dread and elevated heart rate leading up to the procedure.

What do you think elevated means?

• decrease

• increase

• no

• average

Agoraphobia

Agoraphobia involves a fear of being alone in a situation or place where escape may be difficult. This type of phobia may include the fear of crowded areas, open spaces, or situations that are likely to trigger a panic attack. People will begin avoiding these trigger events, sometimes to the point that they cease leaving their home entirely.

Approximately one-third of people with panic disorder develop agoraphobia. Agoraphobia usually develops sometime between late-adolescence and mid-30s. Two-thirds of people with agoraphobia are women. The disorder often begins as a spontaneous and unexpected panic attack, which then leads to anxiety over the possibility of another attack happening.

Multiple Choice

Agoraphobia usually develops sometime between late-adolescence and mid-30s.

What age do you think this is?

• 25 - 30

• 21 - 39

• 14 - 35

• 12 - 40

Multiple Choice

People will begin avoiding these trigger events, sometimes to the point that they cease leaving their home entirely.

What do you think the word cease mean?

• lessen

• always

• start

• stop

Open Ended

What do you think is the impact of being agoraphobic (afraid of being in a crowded place)?

Write your answers below:

Poll

Which of these phobias are the most scary? (you can select more than 1)

• Arachnophobia

• Acrophobia

• Aerophobia

• Cynophobia

• Trypanophobia

Mysophobia

Mysophobia, or the excessive fear of germs and dirt, can lead people to engage in extreme cleaning, compulsive hand-washing, and even avoidance of things or situations perceived as dirty. In some instances, this phobia may be related to obsessive-compulsive disorder.

This common phobia can also result in people avoiding physical contact with other people out of fear of contamination, overuse of disinfectants, and excessive preoccupation with media reports about illness outbreaks. People with this phobia may also avoid areas where germs are more likely to be present such as doctor's offices, airplanes, schools, and pharmacies.

Multiple Choice

People with mysophobia will likely buy a lot of:

• contamination

• disinfectant

• towels

• newspaper

Multiple Choice

These places are presumed to be dirty by people with mysophobia except:

• airplanes

• hospitals

• schools

• bathrooms

Multiple Choice

Which one is agoraphobia?

Multiple Choice

Which one is trypanophobia?

Multiple Choice

Which one is cynophobia?

Multiple Choice

Which one is trypanophobia?