A big competition among these two. But they are pretty much the same. Phobia is a persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of a specific thing or situation that compels one to avoid it, despite the awareness and reassurance that it is not dangerous. While fear is less like a mini phobia but in a sense of that. They pretty much teams up and create big.
And I have read an article at webmd.com written by Heather Hatfield with the title "The Fear Factor: Phobias"
"Phobias involve the experience of persistent fear that is excessive and unreasonable," says Wilson, who is author of the book Don't Panic. "Phobias are cued when a person approaches a particular situation or object, or even anticipates the approach of it, and they understand the fear they will experience as a result of that situation will be unreasonable and excessive."
The key to distinguishing a fear from a phobia is that that while most people get the jitters if a spider crawls on their arm, people suffering from arachnophobia -- the fear of spiders -- are physically and/or psychologically impaired by it.
"To be defined as a phobia, the fear must cause some level of impairment," says Wilson. "I had a woman come in who was afraid of spiders, and it got to the point where she wouldn't go out at night because she couldn't see where they were."
From what I understand to that article is that every point of going out is a point of going elsewhere that leads to the road of hardness. How are they different well fears and phobias are a common—up to a fifth of people suffer to some extend. For some people their fears or phobias are no more than a ‘nuisance. So that's the thing about phobias and fear.
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