What is the difference between anxiety, fear, and phobia?
Anxiety Anxiety is a disturbing feeling of impending doom, when there is no specifically feared object or circumstance. Physical symptoms include shortness of breath, dizziness, a sinking feeling in the stomach and rapid heart beat. Fear Fear can be described as an unpleasant emotion that occurs in response to a consciously recognized source of danger, real or imaginary. The physical symptoms that occur during fear are rapid pulse rate and breathing, raised blood pressure and increased muscle tension. Phobias A phobia is an excessive fear of an object, activity or situation that disturbs a persons functioning by leading them to avoid the cause of that fear. Some of the more common simple phobias are fears of animals, insects, heights, enclosed spaces and flying.
