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Ever since Ron Schlegel can remember he has had a fear of birds.
“As I am told my mother and I went to visit a neighbor upstairs”, Schlegel said, “I guess they had a parrot and it just dived bomb right at bird my feet.”
Doctors say traumatic experiences as a child usually turn fears into phobias.
Dr. Larry James dean of professional psychology at Wright State University treats people with social phobias.
“Patients will tell me, ‘Dr. James I feel like the walls are closing in on me I feel like I’m going to die.”
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