What are the emotional characteristics of phobias?
Ways in which peoplefeel.
Anxiety
Sufferers show high levels of anxiety. Preventing the sufferer from relaxing and makes it very difficult to experience any positive emotion. It can belong term.
Emotional responses are unreasonable
The emotional responses we experience in relation to phobic stimulus goes beyond whats reasonable. For example, fear of spiders involves very strong emotional responses to tiny, harmless spider. Widely disproportionate to danger posed by spiders