Contents:
- Medical Video: 25 Strange Phobias You May Not Know You Have
- Various symptoms of phobias that need to be known
- Physical symptoms of a person when experiencing a phobia
- Psychological symptoms when someone has a phobia
- Symptoms in people who experience complex phobias
Medical Video: 25 Strange Phobias You May Not Know You Have
Phobias are excessive and absurd reactions to someone who appears when faced with the source of his fear. This fear is usually in the form of a particular place, situation or object. Sometimes many people are still mistaken to distinguish between phobias and ordinary fears. For more details, the following are various symptoms of phobias both physically and psychologically or psychologically.
Various symptoms of phobias that need to be known
Unlike ordinary fears, people who experience phobias will experience a variety of specific symptoms that are shown both physically and psychologically. Here's the description.
Physical symptoms of a person when experiencing a phobia
People who have certain phobias will usually experience panic attacks. This panic attack is usually indicated by various physical symptoms such as:
- Nausea
- Trembling
- Sweating
- Dry mouth
- Feeling confused
- Headache and dizziness
- Shortness or difficulty breathing
- Feelings like suffocating
- Numbness or tingling
- Heart rate increases rapidly
- The face turns red and the body becomes colder
- Increased blood pressure
Psychological symptoms when someone has a phobia
Apart from visible physical symptoms, you will also experience a variety of psychological or psychological symptoms such as:
- Feelings of anxiety and fear that cannot be controlled.
- There is a feeling that the source of fear in front of you must be avoided by all means.
- Realize that the fear that is being experienced is not reasonable and excessive but still cannot do anything.
These symptoms can also appear only by thinking about the object of a phobia. Usually, in young children symptoms will appear with crying or screaming. Also, children can suddenly hide behind you and look scared.
Symptoms in people who experience complex phobias
Phobias are conditions that can affect anyone. In people with complex phobias, a person is not just afraid of certain objects. This fear also affects his well-being in living life. Examples of complex phobias include agoraphobia and social phobia. Both of these phobias have effects that can harm daily life and mental well-being.
Quoted from the NHS website, agoraphobia is an excessive concern that he will experience a condition that makes him helpless. Usually, people with agoraphobia have a combination of several types of phobias that are interrelated.
For example, someone will feel anxious and worried when leaving home, may also experience fear when left alone at home (monophobia) or in a narrow and closed place (claustrophobia).
