Dr. Cathy Frank answers the question: 'Difference Between Anxiety And Phobia?' — -- Question: What is the difference between anxiety and phobia? Answer: A phobia is a type of anxiety. It's an ...

Halloween is a holiday that revels in our deepest, darkest fears, whether that's spiders, dark, confined spaces or gore galore. For many, confronting these fears by, for instance, visiting a haunted ...

This brave restaurant server isn’t dipping out on work. An unlucky waitress has revealed her rather inconvenient phobia for someone in the food service industry: a fear of tomato-based sauces.

Also known as Social Anxiety Disorder, this is the most frequently reported phobia by Talkspace therapists. It makes routine conversations and social gatherings stressful and overwhelming.

It is perhaps surprising that, in clinical settings, phobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are often not clearly differentiated. This is in part because patients frequently present with ...