Potential Psychology

'If the 5 trillion spiders in the Netherlands took to eating humans rather than insects, they'd consume all Dutch people in just three days.' Not a nice thought, especially if you have a spider phobia but that was the Tweet that led me to today's guest and our discussion of phobias.My guest is Dr Celin Gelgec, a clinical psychologist based in Melbourne, who specialises in anxiety and all of the different ways in which it manifests and challenges us, including phobias! Celin is a Senior Clinical Psychologist & the Director of the Melbourne Wellbeing Clinic. She works with children, adolescents, and adults who experience Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and anxiety disorders, as well as secondary depression.In this episode Celin and I talk about phobias but we also venture into her favourite topic, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.My questions to Celin... •What are phobias? •Do we all have them? •What causes them? •Are some phobias innate? Or do we learn them? •When do they become more than harmless? •What are th