Dr. Cathy Frank answers the question: 'Difference Between Anxiety And Phobia?' — -- Question: What is the difference between anxiety and phobia? Answer: A phobia is a type of anxiety. It's an ...

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Do sponges make you feel afraid, anxious or disgusted? How about honeycombs? Or strawberries? If so, you might have trypophobia − the fear of clusters of small holes. Though rare as far as phobias go, ...

Plenty of people get the heebie-jeebies when they stand near the edge of a high cliff, and many would prefer not to pet a tarantula or cradle a boa constrictor. But for some people, their fears ...

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It is perhaps surprising that, in clinical settings, phobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are often not clearly differentiated. This is in part because patients frequently present with ...