TRAPPED BY FEAR:

THINK IT THROUGH:

Who is afraid to cross the Mackinac Bridge? How does this fear affect them?

The people that are afraid to cross the Mackinac Bridge are both sex some times it's a man, other time a woman. It can be a young person, bt just as often it's an older adult. At times, a person on motorcycle can't get across. Sometimes even truck drivers have to ask someone to take their rigs across.

What are the results of a phobia?

The results of a phobia are some fear heights. Others dread entering wide-open places. Still others are afraid of being closed into small spaces. Many are afraid to fly in airplanes.Dirt and germs are some people's biggest fear. They don't want to touch anything, however clean, for fear of gettingsick.Others are afraid of animals, like cats or snakes.Others are afraid of animals, like cats or snakes.

How can childhood events lead to phobias?
Childhood events can leads to phobias as terrified at the sound of running water. Also childrens soemtimes had gone on a picnic with the family so when they go to the river and trapper by the water's strong current they can not get out. In addition, what started as a shock from one event can become fear of many things or ideas. For example, a small boy scared by a dog might grow up to fear all dogs and cats.


How can people with phobias learn to live with them?

People with phobias can learn to live with them because they get help from doctors to get over a fear little by little and the things that they're afraid of take other methods that can help them and at the same time take that phobia out of their mind thinking about other things.

Many people have strong fears, called phobias, that greatly affect their lives. This is the main idea of the article. List at least five details that support this main idea.

Five details that support this main idea are, flying,water, height, animal and wide-open.


Would reading this article help someone with phobia?

Reading this article would help someone with phobia because, it gives examples on how people can get over with it and the methods that offers.

MAIN IDEA:
People suffer from many kinds of phobias.

DETAILS:
- Some fear heights.
- dread entering wide- open places.
- Others afraid of being closed into small spaces.
- Many are afraid to fly in airplanes.
- Afraid of animals like cats or snakes.

CAUSE AND EFFECT:

1- People wanted to travel between two parts of Michigan, so a bridge was built.

CAUSE:
People wanted to travel between two parts of Michigan.
EFFECT:
They built or construct a bridge.

2- When some people panic on the bridge, they freeze.
CAUSE:
Some people panic on the bridge.
EFFECT:
They freeze.

3- A driver comes to help when people stop their cars on the bridge.
CAUSE:
A driver comes to help.
EFFECT:
When people stop their cars on the bridge.

4- Sometimes people have bad experiences as children and they develop phobias.
CAUSE:
Sometimes people have bad experiences.
EFFECT:
As children they develop phobias.

5- Some people get rid of their phobias because they work bit by bit to get over their fear.
CAUSE:
Some people get rid of their phobias.
EFFECT:
They work bit by bit to get over their fear.


Context Clues: Definition and Restatement

1- Phobias are fears that are irrational, that is, not logical.
Irrational means: Not consistent with or using reason.

2- One of the most common phobias is claustrophobia-the fear of closed places.
Claustrophobia is: The fear of being in a closed space.

3- A person with that phobia would feel great anxiety, or nervousness, in a small room.
Anxiety is: A nervous disorder characterized by a state of excessive uneasiness.

4- Some people have acrophobia, that is, the fear of crowds.
Acrophobia is: Fear of high places.

5- Those people may not be able to walk down a congested (crowded) street.
Congested means: overfull as with blood.

Writing Activity:
Pretend that you are an advice columnist. Write a short piece of advice to someone who is afraid of heights. Use at least four of the words you learned from the reading.

As a advice columnist the advice that I can give someone who is afraid of heights is that when I was little I used to have phobia of heights so I went to the doctor so he introdused me in special claces to get rid of it. Moreover, the same advise I give to the people who is in the same situation with acrophobia.