Herpetophobia Or Fear Of Reptiles
Specific phobias are an irrational fear of a situation or object, and their boundless number is only limited by the number of nouns in any language. All types of phobia are forms of anxiety disorders and affect nine percent of people in the United States. The other two types of phobia are agoraphobia and social phobia (social anxiety disorder). An Evolutionary Phobia There is a theory that herpetophobia, along with arachnophobia (fear of spiders), is an evolutionary phobia....