Article topic: Specific Phobia Author: Norah Nawaf Elenizi. Editor: Aroob Awwad Awwad. Keywords: Specific Phobia, Anxiety disorder, Psychiatry, Mental disorder.     Introduction A specific phobia is an excessive, constant fear of a certain object, situation, activity, or person. Although individuals with specific phobias know that there is no real threat or danger to them, they try hard to avoid triggers of their phobia and cannot stop their irrational fear (1). An example of the characteristic exaggerated fear in specific phobias is the terror of falling that occurs in about 50% of the elderly who have recently fallen (2). In […]