Good afternoon, everyone. It's Dr. Niagara again. Our next episode of Psychology Gunplugged.

As always, a heartfelt thank you to all of our followers here in the United States and abroad.

Much appreciation for your continued support. And thank you for sending questions. And it's a fun week when we get to talk to people.

We're not providing treatment, but, you know, just helping people consult on different, you know,

topics and aspects as it relates to mental health and really enjoy doing this program.

And someone I knew, I know came across a book that is pretty cool.

It's called It's All In Your Head, and it's by a gentleman named Sean Koss, and I have no vested interest in promoting anything, but he does an amazing job of taking a lot of the different psychological disorders and drawing kind of dark and somewhat disturbing pictures of mental health.

But I think his premises is really to educate people and, you know, legitimize the severity of mental health.

Because as I mentioned multiple times, it doesn't have the face like a broken arm or a broken leg where you're wearing a cast or you have, you know, some visible,

uh, maybe ambulatory mechanism like a cane or whatnot. But I wanted to, um, I wanted to do today's

episode on specific phobias.

And I'm going to go through a list of a bunch of ones.

Probably most of you guys have never heard.

Some of these I never heard of, but they do exist.

And there's, you know, specific phobias.

I think all of us have our own phobias.

I hate bugs.

I don't like, I'm not going to swim in the water unless it's a pool because I don't want to have anything touching me.

So I think we all have different phobias.

And, you know, for, I diagnose this disorder.

And specific phobia is, you know, really this intense fear and autonomic nervous system and fight or flight response into some feared stimulus.

So with specific phobias, they usually develop sometimes following a traumatic event,

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