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Why We Have Phobias & Why Dogs Behave The Way They Do

Something You Should Know

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What Are the Common Phobias?

There's a story in my book about a young man who's scared of popcorn. He finds it like kind of worse than maggots or something, bloated and expanding. To be a diagnosable phobia, the anxiety or aversion or disgust, rueflex has to interfere with our normal lives. And yes, it is an ick factor with spiders, but it's also a fear factor. Apparently we recoil from them as if they might infect us,. So they're unusual in that and it is a very common phobia.

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