What is a phobia?

Phobias are characterized by a persistent and irrational fear of a particular object or behavior, accompanied by a compulsive desire to avoid it. Most of us have experienced irrational avoidance of certain objects, but it usually has no significant impact on our lives. In contrast, phobias are diagnosed when the avoidance behavior or fear becomes a major source of anxiety in an individual's life and affects their daily behavior. There are several main types of phobias: simple phobia, social phobia, and agoraphobia.

Simple phobia is the most common type of phobia in the population. Objects that sufferers fear usually include animals, especially dogs, snakes, and insects. Other simple phobias are agoraphobia, a fear of heights, and claustrophobia, a fear of confined spaces. Most simple phobias originate in childhood and disappear without treatment. However, intense tensions and fears that persist into adulthood usually do not disappear spontaneously.

Social phobia is an extreme form of shyness that affects an individual's daily life, including a chronic, irrational fear of being scrutinized by others and a compulsive desire to avoid such situations. If such a situation must be faced, the individual feels marked anxiety and tries to avoid it. Examples include extreme fear of speaking, performing, or eating in public **** places, or using public **** elevators, and writing in front of others. Although the disorder itself rarely leads to incapacitation, it can produce considerable inconvenience, such as when an individual avoids using a public **** elevator. Moreover, in attempting to relieve anxiety, patients often abuse alcohol, barbiturates, and other anti-anxiety medications.

Plaza phobia, traditionally thought of as the "fear of open spaces," is the most severe of the classic phobic reactions and the one for which people most often seek treatment. Agoraphobia is a series of different fears*** that together stimulate extreme anxiety about crowds or open spaces, such as in crowded stores, in elevators or tunnels, on public **** transportation, or on bridges. This phobia often occurs in the eighteen or nineteen years of age or in the early twenties, or it may occur much later. When this phobia breaks out, victims are often trapped in their homes. If they go out, they need to go to great lengths to avoid certain environments, such as elevators.

Phobias, also known as panic attacks, are a symptom that manifests itself in an acute attack of anxiety. A sudden intense discomfort, chest tightness, breath holding, palpitations, sweating, a feeling of near death, which basically lasts for a quarter of an hour, and sometimes there is no reason for this attack, with a sudden and intense feeling of fear, as if you are about to die. This tension makes it unbearable, as if the heart is going to beat out; chest tightness, a feeling of pressure in the chest area; or difficulty in breathing, throat blockage, as if we can not breathe, about to die of suffocation.

Many people who have experienced this attack are afraid of having another one, so they avoid the situation, don't want to go out, or find someone to accompany them every time they go out, and in severe cases they may even be suicidal.

Some people will repeatedly check their own body, repeatedly check their own heart, always suspect that their heart has a problem, this is to run to the cardiology department of various hospitals, this situation can only form a vicious circle.

See the characteristics of a panic attack, afraid?

Don't be afraid, you can be cured, but it takes courage to recognize yourself!

We need to get to the source of the phobia, to get to the root of our anxiety and alleviate the physical discomfort caused by it.

We need to seek help from those around us and talk about our problems. Positive social support goes a long way in relieving anxiety and stress.

In the psychiatric diagnostic criteria, there is a large category called neurosis, which is the largest category of clinical patients, including anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, hypochondriasis, and phobias. Phobias, also called phobias, refers to excessive fear of certain environments, taking an avoidance approach. Including square phobia, specific environment phobia, social phobia, etc., of which the most is social phobia.

Let's take social phobia as an example to illustrate the formation principle of phobia and the method of recovery. Social phobia, mainly afraid of people, some people men, some are afraid of women, some are afraid of raw people, some are afraid of acquaintances, some are afraid of half-baked, as for the fear of that kind of people, are related to his own experience.

There is a young man who is afraid of young and beautiful, well-dressed women, met such a woman is nervous, very painful, hurry to leave, so that people can not understand. He is a child of the countryside, working in a city, to the age of marriage, his parents introduced a very beautiful girl, very satisfied, all their own and their parents' savings to get married, which know that the girl is lazy, nothing to do, is to dress up every day, buy clothes, the young man from the first thrifty, the two quarrelled, only a month's time on the divorce, but the girl dragged on, and waited a year before the divorce. Divorce, so that the young man pain, hate this like to dress up, lazy daughter-in-law. After the divorce, the savings from years of hard work were gone. One day on the bus, up a well-dressed girl, standing next to him, he suddenly felt nervous, did not arrive at the station on the next car, and then dare not shopping malls, hotels, these girls work place.

He himself does not understand, in the exchange of counseling to explain the principle of conditioned reflexes, explain the principle of his fear, adjust the cognitive, not all well-dressed girls are lazy, on this basis, do the implied relaxation training, a correct thinking fixed in the brain.

Terrorism can be completely recovered, the focus of the solution is anxiety, conditioned reflexes, and optimize the personality to develop self-confidence.