Contents:
- Medical Video: 15 Weird Phobias That Actually Exist
- What are the causes of phobia?
- What are the signs and symptoms of phobia?
- What are the types of phobias?
- 1. Social phobia
- 2. Agoraphobia
- 3. Specific phobias
- How to overcome phobia?
Medical Video: 15 Weird Phobias That Actually Exist
Phobias are generally known as excessive and unreasonable fear of an object, place, or situation. You can experience deep panic when facing an event that makes you feel scared. Phobias are common and can be very difficult. Some phobias can make you unable to do anything, disrupt your activities. In serious cases, phobias can cause you to experience shortness of breath, high blood pressure, chest pain, nausea, dizziness or even a heart attack that threatens your life.
What are the causes of phobia?
Phobias can be caused by several factors, but genetic and environmental factors are the biggest factors that cause phobias. If you experience an event that is not wearing, it can cause phobias, such as being bitten by an insect, drowning, or in a closed place. In some cases, people who are undergoing mental care or traumatic brain injury can experience phobias. Stress and changes in negative life are also connected with phobias.
What are the signs and symptoms of phobia?
Phobias are often formed since childhood. Phobias are common and can be triggered by traumatic events, anxiety or panic situations. Symptoms include:
- Increased heart rate
- Difficulty breathing
- Choking sensation
- Dry mouth
- Trembling
- Pain or discomfort in the chest and / or abdomen
- An intense and uncontrollable fear that can cause a shameful situation
- Fainted
What are the types of phobias?
There are more than 100 types of phobias, which are classified into 3 main groups:
1. Social phobia
Social phobia is also known as social anxiety disorder. People with phobias can have extreme anxiety about social situations, such as picking up the telephone, contacting people, ordering at restaurants. The source of this fear is usually a simple action or reaction that can lead to isolation of oneself. People who have social phobia rarely go out or avoid social events. Social interaction can be the biggest fear if they have experienced a bad event in public.
2. Agoraphobia
Agoraphobia is fear of a place or situation that you cannot avoid, or fear of an open room. People who have this phobia avoid being in a crowd, social situation, or outside the home. They feel more comfortable in a home or a familiar place. This phobia has to do with social phobia, but the difference is that people with agoraphobia have a fear that they cannot get out of the place where they have a medical emergency without help available.
3. Specific phobias
There are certain situations and objects that are not liked by some people, such as:
- Aviatophobia: fear of flying
- Claustrophobia: fear of a narrow and closed room
- Dentophobia: fear of dentists or dental procedures
- Hemophobia: fear of blood or injury
- Arachnophobia: fear of spiders
- Cynophobia: fear of dogs
- Ophidiphobia: fear of snakes
- Nyctophobia: fear of darkness
- Dementophobia: fear of insanity
- Katsaridaphobia: fear of cockroaches
- Carcinophobia: fear of cancer
- Cibophobia: food fear
- Zoophobia: fear of animals
- Cetaphobia: fear of dolphins
- Acrophobia: fear of heights
- Glossophobia: fear of speaking in public
How to overcome phobia?
Most people with phobias try to avoid their fears as much as possible. However, therapists encourage sufferers to write scary thoughts with a rational mind. Other experts recommend cognitive behavioral therapy to help sufferers:
- Facing the situation
- Overcoming fearful thoughts
This method can make sufferers in situations with their phobia. For example, arachnophobic sufferers can be asked to see pictures of spiders, read about spiders, see spiders in glass cages and finally touch spiders.
If you think you have a strange phobia, in fact you are likely to have the same phobia with at least several million other people. Nearly 15-20% of people have certain phobias at least once in life. If your phobia affects your life, you should do professional counseling.
