The medical dictionary definition for phobia is “an intense but unrealistic fear that can interfere with the ability to socialize, work, or go about everyday life, brought on by an object, event or situation.”
We understood that this could mean a majority of people suffer from phobias but don’t realise they have one, as they will just assume that they are a little frightened of their fear and try to avoid it at all costs. Professionals would class that as a phobia.
There are three types of phobias:
• Specific phobia
• Social phobia
• Agoraphobia
Specific phobias are the simplest of phobias and are a fear a particular place or object; this can range from spiders & snakes all the way to an airplane journey. Results in America have shown that 1in 10 phobias run in families and the phobias are almost twice as likely to occur in women. This phobia can begin at any age and they don’t cause much harm if it is something that the person can avoid but if it is something common that happens regularly, it can disrupt everyday life.
To have a social phobia, you generally avoid social situations because you’re worried of being watched or judged by others. They would avoid giving speeches, performing on stage and even using the public toilets. Some people assume that social phobia is merely shyness and the inability to interact with people, but this is not true. Shy people may feel uncomfortable in certain situations but the do not suffer from the severe anxiety – they would not worry about the social events beforehand and don’t avoid anything that may make them feel self conscious. People who suffer from social phobias commonly turn down job offers and avoid being in relationships. Social phobia is usually associated with other anxiety disorders such as depression.
Agoraphobia is the feeling of being trapped resulting a panic attack in a public place. It is the fear of the fear. It usually occurs between the age of 15 and 35. Three times as many women are affected by agoraphobia, compared to men. After an initial panic attack, people often avoid the place it happened because they do not want to experience another. As time goes on, their fear generalizes and usually results in avoiding public places completely. In the most severe cases, people will not leave their house just in case they suffer from another panic attack.
No one really knows how a phobia is caused but research suggests that it is a mixture of hereditary and environmental aspects. The only thing that the professionals cannot understand is why some people suffer from their phobias and others do not.
With thanks to http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Phobias
Getting In Contact With Professionals
For our documentary, we decided that we wanted people of all professions and different people suffering from all different kinds of phobias and fears. We thought this would give a more detailed insight into how it affects people in different ways.We used yellow pages to get the phone numbers and addresses of each company.
We wanted to discuss the fear of death and inorder to achieve this we believe we needed an interview with an undertaker.
The results are as followed:
However, as we rang around and asked different companies if they would be willing to do this, all refused.
We then used the same method to find a hypnotherapist.
We then got in contact with this hypnotherapist who deals with people and their problems in a different kind of way. He was very interested and queried about what type of questions he would have to answer, so we sent this email:
Hi,
The A2 documentary that we as Priestley College students are producing as part of our course surrounds the topic of Fears and Phobias.
In our documentary we will be discussing the different phobias and fears that people suffer from and how they overcome them by seeing professionals such as yourself.
It would be a great help if you were prepared to answer a few questions on film, as part of the interview process, we will also be interviewing people suffering from Phobias.
Unfortunately we have not yet managed to speak to any Professionals in this field and we would be really grateful if you were able to take time out of your busy schedule to help us.
Here are the types of questions that you wil be asked if you accept;
1. What is the most common phobia you deal with?
2. Have there ever been any unknown phobias that people have come to you with?
3. What are the reasons for a phobia developing?
4. Do your clients often inherit their parents fears? Why is this?
5. How can phobias affect peoples daily lives?
6. What tasks do you undertake to help sufferers from overcoming their fear?
7. Is everybody entirely treated by the end of the help they receive?
If you are uncomfortable with any of these questions, let us know and we will not ask them.
Any time to do an interview would be good for us.
Contact No. 07735054166
Thankyou very much
Jordan, Jess and Georgina.
He replied and asked when we would like an interview with him. After a long emailing process, he explained that he could not do the interview in his office because he only rents the space. We gave him an oppurtunity to have his interview in a space provided by us but unfortunately he was fully booked, therefore, he could not do an interview before the closing deadline of filming process.
We then contacted a child's entartainer (clown), as we wanted to find out how children react to the whole exterior of the outfit. We thought this would give us a greater understanding on whether adult's phobias and fears have been brought through life from childhood.
We would then counter balance the dicussion by having a sufferer talking about whether her/his fear are due to childhood.
After ringing most of the contact numbers, we were again unsuccessful.
After all of our possible interviews with professionals didn't work out, we got in contact with a college counciller who works with many students trying to overcome their fears as their phobias interupt their daily routines. She was very good in the interview, explained things fully so we had a lot of information to use in our documentary and also gave us (the production team) a greater understanding on this topic. We acknowledge that if she gave us a deeper understanding, surely her responses will give the audience the same.
For our cutaways, we rand Leeroy's Lizard Lounge. We spoke to Leeroy and he seemed enthuasiastic. We visited his shop and filmed cutaways - we got spiders, snakes, lizards and all sorts of bugs. This helped us a lot because the majority of things that people are scared of are usually more of the creepy insects or lizards.
To get more relevant cutaways, we filmed other things too like rollercoasters, planes and mice.
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