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Understanding and overcoming phobias, with Martin Antony, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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What Are Some of the Most Unusual Phobias?

As common as these common phobias are it's also common to have uncommon phobias. It might be a very specific kind of insect like I've seen people with a fear of moths. We once saw somebody who was afraid of airplanes flying overhead. The other one was afraid of Hollyhocks so another very specific type of flowers and she had an experience when she was little where she was chased by sunflowers. So again we it's easier to learn to fear spiders or snakes or heights than some of these other unusual things but it's not impossible to learning to fear these other things.

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