Up until now, in order to educate the inquisitive on the characteristics of the hypochondriac, the manner of presentation was meant to be on a personal basis so sufferers could relate easily to the characters presented. When one can find similarities in suggestive styles of presenting descriptions of illnesses, then the sufferer can decide for themselves if they have an emotional or psychological disease or illness. Hopefully, it is quite difficult for the lay-person to diagnose another person; and, there really is no reason why they should try to diagnose - one should relate or listen only and especially if they are not medically licensed.
A natural process should instead be that a troubled person starts to worry about his or her own behavior. They then read something about their thoughts or try to find some information about their symptoms on the Internet. Maybe a troubled person would naturally ask others, "have you ever had a feeling that you were going to die while standing in an elevator?" The person being asked could answer many different ways. One of which could be, "yes, I have and I went to a psychologist and was quickly told I had a phobia and he cured me." Or, yet another person might answer, "no, I have had a feeling that I was going to faint while near spiders though." And, the list could go on ad infinitum.
The list of phobias below will give a broad and real perspective as to the fears someone could receive help for. Receiving help could range anywhere from being cured (the fear might never arise again,) or maybe someone would just be encouraged to become more comfortable while experiencing some phobic symptoms knowing that the worst fear will actually not become a reality.
We are born with only two fears in the beginning and they are the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises. Then life happens. Experiences bring about natural exposure to life in many different forms and therefore, everyone human has a different reaction based on their own experience.
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