• Question: Where do phobias come from?

    Asked by meg123 to Amy, Sarah, Will on 21 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by ciarameehan.
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      Amy Birch answered on 21 Jun 2012:

      Hi meg123,
      Phobias are usually very useful! People have phobias of things like spiders or heights or snakes because they could hurt you, so it’s a protective mechanism. Usually if people have a strange phobia, it might be because they have a traumatic memory associated with it, so they think that it could hurt them again.
      Thanks for the question 🙂

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