Kathryn says she is deathly afraid of spiders. she refuses to go into any location (garage, basement, attic where she may run into a spider. her fear of spiders is so great that she is losing sleep for fear a spider will crawl on her while she is asleep. as a result, her grades are beginning to worsen. kathryn would probably be diagnosed with:

Kathryn is probably experiencing a phobia on the specie spiders. It is because she lose control and fear conquer her well being whenever she saw or thought of one. The phobia is experienced by a person when he or she fears of something, an object or a living thing that made this fear as an anxiety. The phobia in which is called of fears in spiders is arachnophobia.