If you met the person who is afraid of a look of a shark or comes to panic at the sight of small objects, do not hurry to look for at it symptoms of weak-mindedness. It is quite possible that the described examples are its phobias. Each of us possesses any given fear of something. But if this fear causes in you panic, is connected with some concrete phenomenon, or a situation or prevents you to work and communicate with people, quite perhaps, as you have a phobia. Not to mix it with usual fear, it is necessary to remember the following symptoms of a phobia: heart begins to fight quicker, breath is at a loss, the feeling of horror can pass into panic, the body becomes weak and uncontrollable, there can be a sweating and indigestion. If at least a part of symptoms coincided, do not worry. If to know the enemy by sight, then and it will be simpler to struggle with him.
Types of phobias and fears
Our phobias and fears can be divided into three views: internal, biological (or natural) and social. The phobias generated by our consciousness belong to the first group. It is the most difficult type of fears, it is possible to eradicate it only by means of hypnosis or the psychotherapist. The second group is connected with the phenomena threatening our life. The third group of fears meets at people most often. These are the phobias connected with interaction of the person and society: fear of a performance before public, fear to be left without work, fear to be not witness go not accepted collective. This classification makes very broad sense. Actually, practically everything that causes panic and the above symptoms in the person, is a phobia and has the name. Here several examples of names and types of phobias:
- agoraphobia - fear of open space;
- arachnophobia – fear of spiders;
- the vinofobiya – persuasive fear to drink wine;
- intimofobiya - avoiding of the close and long emotional relations with the sexual partner;
- the kantserofobiya - fear to develop cancer;
- claustrophobia - fear of the enclosed space;
- mizofobiya - fear of pollution;
- niktofobiya – fear of darkness;
- harpaksofobiya - fear of bandits;
- hipengiofobiya – fear of responsibility;
- photophobia - fear of light.
Fear, panic, phobia - as call, an essence at these concepts one – we are afraid. From the researches conducted by scientists it became known that a quarter of the population of our planet has any given phobias. Fear of height, fear of a public statement, fear of the closed spaces and also fear of flight by plane are the most widespread today.
Everything begins with the childhood
For many it will become opening, but since the childhood learn to be afraid of us. Parents are capable to fill already susceptible children's mentality with a huge number of various fears and phobias. Everyone at least once heard similar phrases: "You will not obey, I will give you to that uncle", "Do not climb there – you will burn", "Do not talk to strangers, they will make to you badly". And if to threats to add excessive emotionality of parents, the child can become reserved and be afraid to make superfluous
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Children's fears and phobias are put in our consciousness and become the real problem at mature age. But if you are parents – in your forces to teach the child to cope with sensation of fear weak still. It is possible to give the mass of examples of children's phobias. Fear of darkness it nothing in comparison with social fears which pursue the child at school. It is important to notice in time that your offspring is concerned by something, to be able to listen to him and together to endure a problem. For example, to react to the disturbing phenomena laughter. Is afraid of a dog – to laugh at what funny dog together. Find positive characteristics of fear – "As you think, and the one who lives under your bed waters flowers while us there is no house?". Thus, any children's fear can be translated for fun. Let's the child be convinced that his fear has no reasons for panic, and the menacing situation can be solved, and at more advanced age he will tell you for this thanks.
Short-term therapy of fear, panic and phobia
If you already reached maturity and your fears deeply and reliably sit in your consciousness, only therapy can help. Psychotherapists are engaged in treatment of fears and phobias, in special clinical cases the people should resort to the help of hypnosis and tranquilizers. As a rule, such treatment saves the person from his nightmares for several sessions. If you consider that you are able to cope independently with the nightmares, use several ways of solving the problem:
- do not become reserved and in the negative emotions. Having noticed a subject or an object of your phobia, try to be distracted by the occupations or thoughts giving you pleasure. Or find the person with whom to you it will be comfortable and which will be able to cause in you self-reliance;
- the stronger you want to get rid of fear, the more it will seize you. Accustom yourself to a thought what to be afraid it normally. And whenever possible switch from the phobia to other objects, do not concentrate on it the attention.
You remember: the fear is the protective mechanism of our mentality. You are always able to defeat yourself. As often as possible be alone to an object of the fear. Plunge into the fear, study it. The popular wisdom says – do what you are afraid of, and you will have nothing to be afraid soon. Make your fears the allies, and then the phobia will become your past.
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