The phobia is a fear of a certain incentive. The subject, the living being or a specific situation can be such incentive. The psychological science knows a huge number of phobic frustration.
The majority of phobias come from children's fears, the smaller percent arises as a result of the endured stress. In the first case it is much more difficult to recover from a phobia therefore it is important to work a phobia right after its emergence.
Types of phobias
At sociophobia of people comes to an inadequate state when appraisingly watch it. At the same time he realizes that his fears are decided. Most often this phobia develops at teenage age when the person is most sensitive to criticism. Suffering from sociophobia avoids public statements, acceptance of food in public. Constant avoiding of such situations can result in complete social isolation.
At an agoraphobia the stay on open space and impossibility to return to the safe place is alarming. The attack of panic is provoked by fear to faint, go crazy or die in the crowded place. As a result the person tries not to leave the dwelling without urgent need. Contrary to an agoraphobia, at claustrophobia the fear of the closed spaces takes place. The person avoids stay in the small room at the closed door, the lack of windows aggravates a situation. There is a big group of the phobias limited to strictly certain situation. Here fear of a specific animal, a natural phenomenon, a certain disease belong. Most of them can seem to the healthy person absurd. For example, the person can be afraid in panic of bird's feathers, long words, beautiful women, mirrors. Also believe, with simple hostility or disgust it has no nothing in common.
Symptoms of phobic frustration
Alarm degree at phobic frustration can vary from slight discomfort to panic horror. Beginning to imagine a disturbing incentive, the person already feels concern. At the same time the disturbing incentive objectively does not constitute danger of death. Arrival of an attack of fear is demonstrated by a number of specific somatic symptoms. Heartbeat becomes more frequent, the discomfort in digestive tract increases, the feeling of squeezing in a breast, a hyperventilation of lungs appears. There can be visual impairments, dizziness, a tremor of extremities, noise in ears, numbness. Treatment of phobias is often made by very paradoxical methods relating to behavioural therapy. The most widespread of them – the room in the situation causing fear.