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Specific phobia is an anxiety disorder, characterized by an extreme, unreasonable, and irrational fear associated with a specific object, situation, or concept which poses little or no actual danger. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Specific phobia can lead to avoidance of the object or situation, persistence of the fear, and significant distress or problems ...
Entomophobia, sometimes known as insectophobia, is a specific phobia characterized by an excessive or unrealistic fear (disgust) of one or more classes of insect, and classified as a phobia by the DSM-5. [1] More specific cases include katsaridaphobia (fear of cockroaches), melissophobia (fear of bees), myrmecophobia (fear of ants), and ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... (DSM-5), is the 2013 update ... Specific types of phobias became specifiers but are otherwise unchanged. [11]
Fear of flying is a specific phobia classified as such in the DSM-5. [5] The diagnosis is clinical. It is often difficult to determine if the specific phobia of fear of flight should be the primary diagnosis, or if fear of flying is a symptom of a generalized anxiety disorder or another anxiety disorder such as agoraphobia or claustrophobia. [7]
To qualify for a diagnosis of a specific phobia such as submechanophobia, subjects must display several symptoms and fulfill a list of requirements. [3] [5] [6] Unreasonable and excessive fear; Immediate anxiety response; Avoidance/extreme distress; Life-limiting; 6+ month duration of fear; Not attributable to another disorder
Phobias can generally be categorized into three main groups: specific phobias, social phobias and agoraphobia phobias. Specific phobias are intense fears tied to particular objects or situations ...
Blood-injection-injury (BII) type phobia is a type of specific phobia [1] [2] characterized by the display of excessive, irrational fear in response to the sight of blood, injury, or injection, or in anticipation of an injection, injury, or exposure to blood. [3] Blood-like stimuli (paint, ketchup) may also cause a reaction. [4]
According to the DSM-5, heliophobia would be listed under the category of "specific phobia". [3] The Pacific Health Center suggested that people have been staying away from the sunlight because of growing fear of skin cancer or blindness. This is not technically heliophobia, but simply an unfounded illogical solution.