Anxiety may lead to a phobia.
A phobia develops when a person starts to avoid the situation or the thing which causes the anxiety. The person may then develop a greater fear of facing the situation, this in turn may causes more anxiety the next time the situation needs to be faced.
The person may develop a behaviour pattern of avoiding the situation. The person will learn to develop methods and behaviours to avoid the situation. They may learn to find reasons for not going anywhere near the situation.
If you meet people who make fun of you then this is likely to be harmful to you even if it is not meant to be.
Even talking about the situation may cause anxiety and they may develop further phobias to try to avoid this as well. The original anxiety causing situation may then become masked by other anxieties.
The original fear may therefore become buried deep in the subconscious memory and may not be easily identified by the person with the phobia.
A phobia is a chronic anxiety or fear of a situation that would not be fearful to a person without a phobia.
The situation that causes the anxiety is sometimes known as the stimulus.
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