In your search for what causes phobias, you may well be tempted to look at something directly connected to the phobia, that's logical. Unfortunately, what causes phobias is completely irrational.
The interesting thing is that often you don't deal with your phobia until it becomes really painful and you HAVE to deal with it. Like the man who had a fear of heights and, having a change of partner, was travelling to many cities which have a high point of interest to visit.
It turned out to have its roots, as is often the case, in an unresolved incident from childhood, hardly remembered at all. His father lifted him up to look over a parapet, and his older brother was mercilessly taunting him, as siblings will. A woman with fear of flying - the root was being shut in a cupboard by her brother when she was small! The first example has the father lifting the boy up, so the link to fear of heights is fairly obvious, but the second has little connection to the associated fear, except in her mind.
There is a common thread here, though. In both cases they were angry in the causal situation, and had no ability to control the outcome. Using The Sedona Method, you can learn how to deal with feelings of apathy, grief, fear, lust, anger, and pride, as well as wanting control, wanting approval, and wanting to feel secure. These common emotions strongly influence our experience of the world.
So perhaps the answer to 'what causes phobias?' is an unresolved angry incident when you were a child (usually - occasionally as an adult), or feelings of being unable to control something that happened to you. Unresolved feelings influence our lives so greatly, it behoves every one of us to unearth them and deal with them.
Don't wait! All phobias are irrational and DO NOT protect you, quite the reverse as 'fear and it will appear' - Lester Levenson. Deal with them NOW!
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The interesting thing is that often you don't deal with your phobia until it becomes really painful and you HAVE to deal with it. Like the man who had a fear of heights and, having a change of partner, was travelling to many cities which have a high point of interest to visit.