Phobia

🔬Causes & Risk Factors

• 1Phobias are believed to develop through a combination of genetic predisposition to anxiety
• 2a direct traumatic experience with the feared object or situation
• 3learned behavior from observing a fearful reaction in a parent or caregiver
• 4and in some cases through receiving frightening information about a particular danger. Neurochemical differences in how the brain's fear response is regulated are thought to contribute to why some individuals develop phobias while others exposed to the same experiences do not. Certain phobias tend to emerge during childhood
• 5while others
• 6such as specific situational phobias
• 7more often develop in adulthood.