What’s the difference between phobia and fear?

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What’s the difference between phobia and fear?

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Fear is a local feeling, experienced for a short time, usually with an obvious cause.

Phobia is an irrational pattern that invokes fear every time you see/feel/experience something. It’s usually hard to understand why are you afraid of the subject of your phobia, and it’s extremely hard to suppress it.