For most people phobias start when they are in their 20's, she said.

At first we thought he would grow out of his phobia.

Indeed, I often thought he had a phobia against it.

Before you go any further, this is not about fat phobia.

Women often have phobias at a younger age than men do.

Over the past few years, that phobia had been getting worse.

But I had a few close calls, and it almost got to be a phobia with me.

I have a phobia about small pointed things in my body.

His interest is in the ways phobias are named, not their treatment.

She said that her son was under a doctor's care and had a phobia about school.

The man in brown apparently has a strong phobia of the dark.

Doctors - right now I have this phobia of them.

His phobia of crossing over water, he told the family, was too much.

In his private practice, he began to see people with phobias and found the same approach to be successful.

I have a social phobia and cannot stand these large crowds of people.

But you add in the other phobia, it was just impossible.

And not just the phobia, but the way he was handling it.

The mean onset of social phobia is 10 to 13 years.

It's more common in people with a history of depression and/or social phobia.

There was a kind of phobia when he looked at the mirror.

There are many forms of treatment for a person who has a phobia.

People with phobias try to avoid what they are afraid of.

In severe cases, people with social phobia may avoid school or work.

Phobias usually start when a person is a child or a teenager.