Since ancient times healthy fear of snakes is inherent in the person – among these beings there are also poisonous individuals whose one sting is enough to do the person in. However, if you just logically realize all danger of walks on forests and mountains, it is not a phobia yet. The disease begins when the person panics even at the sight of harmless already in a terrarium or feels genuine horror when it just sees a snake on the picture.
How the phobia - fear of snakes is called?
To learn how fear of snakes is called, it is necessary to address the Greek terminology. A snake on Greek – ofidio, fear – Phobos. From this we receive a word an ophidiophobia which designates this type of frustration. Other name of the same frustration less widespread – a serpentofobiya.
In turn the ophidiophobia is included into the section of a herpetophobia – fear in the face of any reptiles, whether it be a harmless small lizard or an iguana.
Psychology: reasons of fear of snakes
Experts are sure – the fear of snakes lives in us genetically, just at some it works rationally, and at others – is irrational.
Quite often such fear comes from everyday situations: for example, someone decided to play a trick and threw a snake in personal belongings – guys sometimes act this way with girls who very much are pleasant to them. In this regard fear of snakes according to Freud is connected with denial of a machismo and its rejection as the snake symbolizes a phallus and is associative is connected with it.
In certain cases children who are raised in religious families are afraid of snakes because that they are a symbol of a devil in the Bible. However, everything happens and is more prosy: in front of the person somebody is bitten by a snake, and since then at this personality the phobia - fear of snakes develops.
Fear of snakes: signs
If you have a phobia, then you will not be able even to watch transmission about snakes – you will be covered by panic, heart will knock as in case of extreme danger, short wind begins, palms sweat, in a mouth dries up, there comes nausea and an indisposition.
In the most difficult cases of people begins to behave inadequately, flies into a rage, seeks to hide, begin to speak muffledly, etc.
Fear of snakes: treatment
It is possible to cope with such disease if to go to the good psychotherapist which will easily define the causes of your illness and will register a full complex of treatment. It, as a rule, includes appointment of some psychotropic medicines and also sessions of psychotherapeutic character.
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