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Hood likens our susceptibility to religious ideas to our propensity to develop phobias for evolutionarily relevant threats (like snakes and spiders) rather than for things that are far more likely to kill us (like automobiles and electrical sockets).
Furthermore, people can develop phobias without any recollection of a previous exposure to the feared event (Murray and Foote 1979; Olsson et al. 2007; Olsson and Phelps 2007; Rachman 1977).
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This can lead to more intense problems like developing phobias (an advanced state of fear).
The case series showed that some patients develop straightforward phobias after trauma and can be effectively treated with CBT for phobia.
Clinicians say they treat twice as many women as men for simple phobias, and there is anecdotal evidence that women's fears can develop into phobias after they have children.
While a few can trace their fears to a specific situation, more often "there is no underlying trauma, just as people develop driving phobias without ever having been in a car accident," said Dr. Fredric Neuman, director of the Anxiety and Phobia Treatment Center at White Plains Hospital Center.
"Quite often people who have gone through this experience require counselling afterwards as they develop a phobia about going to sleep," says Hutton.
Some may have inherited a tendency to faint when jabbed; others develop the phobia after a painful injection or a botched blood sample.
Research also shows that certain people are more likely to develop the phobia than others; specifically, those with anxiety, depression, and childhood sexual abuse trauma (all of which I, unfortunately, have).
Participants scoring high in social anxiety are at risk to develop social phobia, one of the most common anxiety disorders, with a lifetime prevalence of 12.6% [52].
Be aware that many young diabetics develop needle phobia.
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