phobias

• behavioural characteristics of phobias

  panic - crying, screaming, running away or freezing(fight or flight)

  avoidance - effort to keep away from the phobic stimulus, making it hard to go about daily life

  endurance - in unavoidable situations, experience continuous and extreme anxiety
• emotional characteristics of phobias

  anxiety - an unpleasant state of high arousal which prevents relaxation and cannot experience a positive emotion which can be long term

  emotional responses are unreasonable - fear is immediate and extremely unpleasant when we come in contact with the phobic stimulus
• cognitive characteristics of phobias

  selective attention - may struggle to focus on anything else

  irrational belief - irrational thought process which can cause pressure, knows the fear is excessive

  cognitive distortions - they may have a distorted perception of the appearance