most common phobia

The most common phobia is
1) agoraphobia
2) acrophobia
3) arachanophobia
4) claustrophobia


Ans: C

Specific phobia is more common than social anxiety disorder (social phobia).

Arachnophobia is one of the most common specific phobias, and some statistics show that 50% of women and 10% of men show symptoms

According to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) and its subsequent Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR), phobic disorders can be divided into 3 types:
social phobia (now called social anxiety disorder),
specific (simple) phobias, and
agoraphobia.


Specific phobia:

Animal type –
-Fear of dogs (cynophobia),
-Cats (ailurophobia),
-Bees (apiphobia),
-Spiders (arachnophobia),
-Snakes (ophidiophobia), or other animals

Natural environment type –
-Fear of heights (acrophobia),
-Water (hydrophobia), or
-Thunderstorms (astraphobia)

Blood injection/injury type –
-Algophobia (pain),
-rhabdophobia (the fear of being beaten)

Situational type –
-Fear of flying (pteromerhanophobia),
-Elevators, or enclosed spaces
Others