What’s the difference between phobia and fear?
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Fear is a defensive response to a dangerous situation.
Phobia is an over energetic response to fear that may occur even when the situation is not dangerous.
Being backed into a corner by a huge tarantula will cause fear in pretty much any human.
An arachnophobe will have the same type of response to any spider regardless of size or situation.
Additionally fear can be fought through phobias are typically such a strong response that there is no fight response it’s either a freeze or flight response
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