Phobiassssssss... scary!

In class we read about phobias, and I did a glog on it. Phobias are anxiety disorders in which an irrational fear causes the person to avoid some object, activity, or situation. There are many different types of phobias, like fear of being in closed spaces, to being afraid of bugs or heights. Arachnophobia is a phobic disorder of spiders. It can be triggered by thoughts of spiders, or actually seeing a spider.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6326461/Halloween-fake-spiders-could-scare-arachnophobic-man-to-death.html

John Stafford, the man in this article, has arachnophobia, or fear of spiders. Holloween is a horrible time for him because of all the costumes, and decorations. His phobia is so bad that he has to stay inside on the holiday. If he sees a spider of any sort, he stops breathing and passes out. His doctor has even said that even fake rubber spiders could cause him to have a fatal heartattack. He has tried many things to stop it like hypnoses and pills, but nothing has worked to make his fear go away.