It doesn't always need to be crippling paralyzing fear. Fear response varies.

Yes, it does.
Which is why not everything is a phobia. There's a scale of fear, I can find dolls mildly unsettling, doesn't mean I have a phobia. A crippling paralyzing fear? Phobia.
Slightly scared = not a phobia.

The only thing really worthy of any criticism for being problematic is the bottom evaluation involves asking if you need counselling or going into a psyche ward.

Phobia can be instinctive repulsions, trauma and a socially learned behaviour. I have a disgust/repulsion/skin crawling response affiliated with tryptophobia but it doesn't mean I freeze or faint. And phobias can be unlearnt. It's not set in stone.

When I had agoraphobia, I wasn't crippled or paralyzed, I had an anxiety disorder. I no longer have it.

Phobias are defined by being irrational, obsessive and often out of proportion to the threat. How people cope with or metabolise stress, repulsion and fear isn't only one thing.

drift in no way said they're unreversable? but they really aren't just a generic fear of something you mark in a meme because ur 'kinda scared of it, i guess'
phobias are defined as an irrational fear of something in that way in dictionaries, sure, but to be classified as a phobia medically speaking it does come as an anxiety disorder, as you mentioned, which to most people is "crippling" in some way (it stops you from living your life the way someonw who doesnt have it would, at the very least) and like honestly i dont think it should be used as a meme where people generically just pick out things theyre kinda scared of

I never said you're unable to unlearn the natural responses you build up, but for deep routed phobias it takes a hell of a lot of time and a hell of a lot of therapy. I'm unsure if I'm just not connecting my point correctly, but to call every little fear a phobia is wrong. Sorry, but it is. It's trivializing and downplays the serious issue of said disorders, etc.

Perhaps I was wrong saying crippling/paralysing; but there is still a scale , and in no way does mild discomfort ever equal phobia.
For example== Anxiety disorder, many levels right? Some folks can't go out at all, some can, some struggle with dealing with people, etc, you get my point. Large scale of 'phobia'. But 'I got nervous one time when talking to a 'gal I like' -- not phobia.

Well they're also defined as being irrational, obsessive and out of proportion with the threat (like anxiety disorders). Anxious behaviours or responses aren't always being petrified. To assume so is inaccurate and misunderstanding of the wide science and reality of behaviour. I hate when complex shit is oversimplified.

ohh my god
ok listen i have an anxiety disorder too, i know what that shit feels like to some degree
but i think having it as a meme is a lot more simplifying it than like. me saying anxiety sucks

thanks for saying it
all i see recently is an annoying wave of these sort of posts
huff puff

im just waiting for the obligatory mental illness one to resurface again so i can get my block finger ready

ahh i did not see that one
honestly its just
bleh
no
stop

if it was just "fear meme" thats like a-ok but they're using physchology terms for the kicks of it

im sorry, i do have actual phobias of most the things i marked in the meme to a point where i get panic attacks and just sit in a corner and cry, and i hoped this would help people understand the way i react in certain situations better..
Most of those all i have severe Atychiphobia and Sociophobia, thats why i mostly stay in my room all day

I wasn't talking about anyone in particular? I'm not blaming or accusing you of not having real phobias, but a lot of the people doing the meme add comments like "I'm kinda scared of it so I guess that counts?" and stuff like that which just sat very badly with me

oh okay i see, yeah