Understanding Phobia

Almost all of us people, most common to women, have fears on something or to something. Fears that we usually have since childhood and still there when we grow older. This fears may result to more intense or more terrible than that of a fear.

A phobia is define as an intense and persistent fear of certain situations, activities, things, animals, or people. It is also define as an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations.

They say people who have phobias realizes that their fear is unreasonable and yet you can’t still control it. You make a way just to avoid the thing or the situation that causes your phobia attack. Most common causes of phobias are death of a loved one or a close person, divorce or separation, job uncertainty or professional termination, corporal or poignant distress or suffering and abuse or abandonment. They said that phobia is acquire due to childhood experiences.

The four general types of phobias include animal phobias, natural environment phobias, situational phobias, and blood-injection-injury phobias.

*Animal phobias are phobias due to animals and insects. Fear include fear of spiders, fear of snakes, and fear of dogs.

*Natural environment phobias are phobias of people that is found in the environment like fear of heights, fear of storms, fear of water, and fear of the dark.

*Situational phobias are phobias that may attack to some specific situation. Fear such as being trapped in a room or fear of enclosed spaces, fear of flying, fear of dentists, fear of bridges, fear of driving and fear of tunnels.

*Blood-injection-injury phobias, this kind of phobia is fear of any medical procedure like injection. It may be a fear of blood, fear of injury and fear of shots.

There are many kinds of phobias, some of these are:

Agliophobia (fear of pain)

Aichmophobia (fear of needles or pointed objects)

Altophobia (fear of heights)

Achluophobia (fear of darkness)

Arachnophobia (fear of spiders)

Claustrophobia (fear of confined places)

Cyonophobia (fear of dogs)

Dementophobia (fear of insanity)

Some people still don’t know particularly that they also have phobia. Some signs and symptoms are here to help you distinguish fear to phobia. This signs are:

*fear of fainting

*hot or cold flashes

*nausea or stomach distress

*sweating

*feeling of choking

*trembling or shaking

*chest pain or discomfort

*fear of dying

*fear of losing control or going crazy

*numbness or tingling sensations

*palpitations, pounding heart or accelerated heart rate

*shortness of breath

There are lots of therapy that is being done today to cure one’s phobia. One may be exposure therapy. This means that you need to expose your self to your phobia. The second would be to learn more about your phobia. You’ll be able to understand more about it and its cure and later on will be confident to try treating it. You could also challenge your negative thoughts. Its like contradicting your own opinion. You have to take away those negative thoughts to help treat yourself. Lastly would be to learn some relaxation techniques. Breath, meditate and stay calm to avoid panic when you’re facing your fears and phobias.

There are many options, therapies, and cure to help you getting out with your phobia but the key is to help yourself in conquering those fears. Without your effort those options will be useless.