However, in both phobias, individuals experience similar symptoms when exposed to phobic triggers. Exposure therapy is the recommended treatment for phobic anxiety disorders. By avoiding phobic situation, anxiety is reduced. Its underlying theory states that phobic anxiety is conditioned and triggered by a conditional stimulus. Martha is depicted as a woman with a whole range of obsessive and phobic traits. Virtual reality therapy is another technique that helps phobic people confront a feared object. Notoriously phobic, his fears included airplanes, automobiles, dogs and water. One study interviewed 18,572 respondents, aged 18 and over, about 15 phobic symptoms. Rizzuto was also very phobic about lightning, and sometimes left the booth following violent thunderclaps. She says that she is not a dog person and is actually phobic.