{"id":23740,"date":"2024-09-06T17:46:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T17:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/irrational-fear\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T05:26:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T05:26:52","slug":"irrational-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/irrational-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Irrational Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Also known as phobias, it is an intense and unreasonable fear of certain things, situations or events that can lead to a great deal of anxiety and avoidance.   <\/p>\n\n<p>Treatment: Treatment of irrational fears such as phobias often includes cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure therapy, and other techniques aimed at overcoming fears and anxiety gradually and systematically.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as phobias, it is an intense and unreasonable fear of certain things, situations or events that can lead to a great deal of anxiety and avoidance. Treatment: Treatment of irrational fears such as phobias often includes cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure therapy, and other techniques aimed at overcoming fears and anxiety gradually and systematically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definition-of-psychological-disorders-and-appropriate-treatment-techniques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45948,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23740\/revisions\/45948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}