Phobia In The 21st Century

Phobia seems like the silent epidemic of the 21st century. There are many factors which influence this condition, but the great stride of technology as an environmental-type cause appears to be one of the main cause of any phobias originated from the modern world. It is essential to understand the notion of phobia which is very common and very serious mental disorder. The medical definition explains that phobia is “an unreasonable sort of fear that can cause avoidance and panic. Phobias are a relatively common type of anxiety disorder.”
A few phobias stemmed from 21st century can be distinguished. For example, technophobia and its derivatives cyberphobia and internet phobia. All of them, are connected to tech-inducted fears and are triggered

It is said to be one of the causes of developing technophobia as long as social phobia. Individuals whose family members suffer from such condition are more likely to acquire it, by watching them and sometimes imitate. More often children are apt to copy their parents because that way is their natural type of learning and accommodate in the world. For example, when a child sees its mother anxious and prejudiced while using a computer or mobile phone, he or she would do the same. Likewise, the shy and socially withdrawn parent would raise the shy child. However social phobia might be the result of the frightening event too. The failure while public performance, or being humiliated in school, or being rejected by society are factors due to a phobia

Consequently, all those factors affect health. It may progress from insignificant blushing, through hands shaking, sweating, to illnesses like neurosis and finally very serious mental disorders like depressions, anxieties and phobias.

It is very important to understand the relationship between causes and effects of phobia. Most of the people who suffer from phobia are not aware how phobia mature and what kind of effects it causes. There are even some cases where individuals think that this is their normal condition and don’t know that phobias might be curable. Phobic people live in constant fear and due to are more likely to increase their fear instead of decrease and fight with it.

The psychologists have not reached the conclusions why some people suffer from phobias, but as mentioned above, there is a lot of research which shows that many factors might be