everybody whether they like to admit it or not has fears and gets anxious about certain things whether it be a spider crawling on the ground or getting up in front of large groups of people in most cases though people cope with those fears and confront them a phobia is the most extreme type of fear where it actually causes them to go to great lengths to avoid being exposed to the feared or perceived danger even if there's no actual risk or danger and people often feel powerless against it phobias are considered the most common psychiatric disorder
affecting almost 10 percent of the population phobias are extreme often unreasonable and irrational fears of something which could literally be anything like pyrophobia fear of fire electoral phobia fear of chickens triskaidekaphobia fear of the number 13. phobophobia fear of developing phobias or even pinacophobia a fear of lists sign up for a free trial today and watch the full video on osmosis.org [Music] bye