Contents:
- Medical Video: Haphephobia: Fear of being touched: Causes and treatments
- What is haphephobia?
- What causes a person to be afraid of being touched?
- Phobia touch symptoms
- What can be done to overcome phobias
Medical Video: Haphephobia: Fear of being touched: Causes and treatments
A variety of strange and unreasonable fears exist in this world, one of which is hapephobia. This strange phobia is kind of rare because it makes someone afraid to be touched by someone else. People who suffer from hapephobia will feel fear constantly at someone's touch. Let's look at an explanation of haphephobia.
What is haphephobia?
Haphephobia is fear and anxiety that can greatly interfere with the life of someone who has it, triggered by touch. Patients will usually look anxious, uncomfortable, sweaty and even panic if they are touched by someone else. Can not just anyone touch it. This happens because touch is considered to enter or violate his privacy space.
These phobia sufferers may experience incidents that make them traumatized, usually occur in victims of abuse or physical violence in the past so that they cause a negative response when experiencing touch, even if it's just an ordinary pat.
What causes a person to be afraid of being touched?
Like most phobias, real life trauma takes place at a time in someone's life (maybe in their past) and triggers a response to excessive fear. Because the human brain is mostly busy making associations during his life, touching or touching is associated with something very unpleasant in the mind of the haphephobic. This could be because they were once victims of terrible rape, assault, or persecution that caused fear of being touched.
In some cases, the response might be a disgust when touched. This can be a problem for people who want to have a tight personal space and fear if someone violates their privacy restrictions. You can find it in some cases in people with autism.
Phobia touch symptoms
- Frightened and anxious if there is a movement you want to touch from someone else
- Afraid of coming into contact with the opposite sex
- Avoid crowds and groups of people or groups
- Panic attacks with several physical signs such as increased heart rate, chills, sweating, fainting, vomiting.
What can be done to overcome phobias
As we know there are many types of phobias. The most popular treatment for phobias is to see a psychologist, psychiatrist, hypnotherapist. Hypnosis can also try to help people overcome phobias or understand what causes problems so they can be solved.
With the help of a trained specialist, the sufferer will be changed into his subconscious. When the subconscious is opened, this has the potential to find problems that trigger their phobias, and introduce new ideas and positive suggestions. These positive suggestions can then be used to help make the desired changes, one of which is to overcome the fear of touch.
