What do you know about Phobia ?
Most of us may suffer from a phobia, but we do not know, so in this article we will know what phobia is, its symptoms, types and methods of treatment.
- Definition of phobia:
Phobia is a Greek word meaning "fear of" Has been introduced into the European languages, including English linked to something that we fear as fear of the figures "Arithmophobia" This word took its independence into English and was used as a more profound alternative to its famous synonym (Fear).
- Symptoms:
• Panic
• Recognize that fear transcends natural boundaries in situations that pose no real danger.
• Automatic reactions that are uncontrolled and devoid of conscious thinking of the person.
• Accelerated heartbeat, accompanied by superficial and rapid breathing, and a desire to escape, and all these physical symptoms accompanied by panic.
• Take a person to strict measures to avoid his phobias.
- The most popular types of phobia:
- Agorophobia: Fear of wide and empty places.
- Acrophobia: Fear of high places and highlands.
- Ailurophobia: Fear of Cats.
- Anthophobia: Fear of flowers and look at them.
- Anthrophobia: Fear of men.
- Aquaphobia: Fear of water.
- Astraphobia: The fear of lightning due to the air condition.
- Bacteriaophobia is a fear of dirt and is called cleanliness
- Claustrophobia: Fear of indoor.
- Cynophobia: Fear of dogs.
- Demonophobia: Fear of jinn and demons.
- Equinophobia: Fear of riding or approaching horses.
- Herpetophobia: Fear of snakes, cockroaches and scorpions
- Numero phobia: Fear of numbers.
- Algophobia: Fear of Pain.
- xenophobia: Fear of strangers.
- Zoophobia: Fear of Animals.
- Acousticophobia: Fear of noise and high sounds.
- Aichmophobia: Fear of sharps such as knives.
- Amaxophobia: Fear of riding a car.
- Anthropophobi: Fear of dealing with people.
- Atychiphobia: fear of being exposed to failure.
- Autophobia: Fear of loneliness and isolation.
- aviatophobia: Fear of boarding a plane.
- Blood-injection-injury type phobia: Fear of needles and injections
- Chemophobia: Fear of chemicals.
- Chromophobia: Fear of all colors.
- Cibophobia: Fear of eating.
- Emetophobia: Fear of Exhaustion.
- Ergophobia: Fear of action.
- Gelotophobia: Fear of being ridiculed by others
- Gerascophobia: Fear of aging.
- Gynophobia: fear of females.
- Hemophobia: Fear of Blood.
- Hypnophobia: Fear of sleep.
- the cure :
With the proper treatment of phobia, many patients can overcome their fears no matter what, and most phobia patients can complete their lives without the usual panic attacks for many years or for a lifetime.
Effective treatment of phobia involves cognitive behavioral therapy or pharmacological therapy or co-operation.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy:
Through the sessions of the handler, the patient talks about the things or situations that give rise to panic attacks, the specialist develops a plan in a gradual way organized to be able to control the patient's fears and control, and by gradually facing the patient to panic causes him accustomed to leading to The disappearance of fear and panic attacks with time.
- Medications:
The drug is used only to control the state of severe terror and anxiety that afflict the patient during the seizure, and there is no medicine for the cure of phobia.
- Co-treatment ;
Because of the lack of oral medical treatment, some specialists recommend using "anxiety states" to alleviate the anxiety that will be experienced during the application of interactive therapy, this method is the most successful in the treatment of phobia.
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