Fears and Phobias

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 What are you scared of?

What kind of an emotion is fear?

What is a phobia?

Is there something of
which you are afraid?

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 How does it make you
feel?

dread sth

fear sth
a racing heartbeat
be afraid of sth
a tingling sensation
be scared of sth
a churning stomach
be frightened of sth
have goose bumps

feel light-headed

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 Nervous or fearful?

How can you

distinguish fear from
feeling worried or
nervous?

When do most people

usually feel fear?

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 How do these terms
relate to phobias?

make helpless, as with greater force or deep

avoidance
emotion; overcome; crush; overpower

fight-or-flight the act of avoiding, or shunning something

a mental disorder characterized by feelings of

overwhelm
anxiety and fear

designating an instinctive response to

illogical
danger, that prepares to confront or to flee

anxiety not logical or reasonable; using, based on, or

disorder caused by faulty reasoning
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 Do you suffer from a
disorder?

Try to use these terms in a avoidance

sentence about fears or
phobias.
fight-or-flight

overwhelm

illogical

Do you believe that you anxiety disorder

are always logical?
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 When I am scared…

overreact
exaggerated

have a panic attack

disproportional

uncontrollable What do people usually do when they

encounter the object of their phobia?
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 What causes fear?

In your opinion, what are

the underlying causes of
phobias?

Is phobia an illness?

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 How can you conquer
fear?

Do you know any methods used

in the treatment of phobias?

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 Phobias

What are the most

common phobias?

Do phobias vary among gender, age or culture?

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 What is the phobia?

arachnophobia fear of books

bibliophobia fear of death

claustrophobia fear of blood

hemophobia fear of the dark

nyctophobia fear of spiders

thanatophobia fear of confined spaces

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 Discuss this quote

‘I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but

the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does
not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.’
Nelson Mandela

Do you agree with this?

Do you think there are people who

fear nothing?

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 Discuss this quote

‘Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be

understood. Now is the time to understand
more, so that we may fear less.’
Marie Curie

Is the fact that we do not

understand something really
behind our fears?

What did people fear in

the past? How did they
stop fearing those things?

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 Unusual phobias

apiphobia fear of string or rope

trichophobia fear of horses

hippophobia fear of snow

chionophobia fear of water

hydrophobia fear of bees

linonophobia fear of hair

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 More to talk about!

Can fear actually be

How does fear affect crippling?
children and their
development?
How does society treat
people with phobias?

Can you give examples from history of how

xenophobia, the irrational fear of foreigners and the
unfamiliar, affected people and communities?
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