How do phobias manifest? Like I understand if you’ve had a traumatic experience with something, you might develop a phobia of it, but is there another way? I’ve heard that phobias can be passed down generations, how is that possible if it’s a mindset?

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How do phobias manifest? Like I understand if you’ve had a traumatic experience with something, you might develop a phobia of it, but is there another way? I’ve heard that phobias can be passed down generations, how is that possible if it’s a mindset?

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Possibly it gets thaught to kids because the parents are for example terrified of being underwater, that fear kinda manifests in the raising of the kid so it doesn’t know any better. Some phobias can be completely irrational tho