A common, everyday misconception is that phobias have a positive side effect on your personality, while in reality phobias have a negative effect on you and your personality. For example, arachnophobia, the fear of spiders, causes changes in personality, is unreasonable and causes negative effects on life. Many new discoveries have been made about phobias and numerous treatments have been found, but many people still face a daily dilemma when it comes to dealing with phobias. Phobias usually do no real harm. For example, arachnophobia (which is the fear of spiders) allows its victims to live in a world full of fear, while in reality even a bite from a black widow will only cause small noticeable symptoms, such as cramps and nausea in extreme cases . Death is possible only when the spider's venom interferes with other existing conditions, such as heart disease. Phobias such as arachnophobia are proven to be unreasonable and although some believe that fear is part of our fight or flight mechanism, phobias are simply unreasonable and unnecessary....