It’s easy to make light of phobias—until you or someone you love develops one.
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For example, you may feel uneasy looking down from a high place or have a moment of alarm if you encounter a snake or spider. You may feel a little anxious or have negative thoughts when flying or if you enter an enclosed space like when having an MRI exam. These are not phobias.
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A phobia magnifies fear and anxiety to an unmanageable level. People with this type of mental health disorder will make great efforts to avoid the very places, situations, or things that trigger their overwhelming feelings of dread. They will do this even knowing they have the condition.
There are simple phobias and complex phobias (social phobia and agoraphobia)
Simple Phobias:
A specific phobia involves irrational and pronounced fear related to a specific trigger, which is usually an object, place, or situation. Some people have more than one specific phobia. Currently, experts have recognized more than 500 specific phobias.
Complex Phobias:
About 15 million U.S. adults have social phobias (also known as social anxiety disorders) making it the most common type. An individual with this form of the disorder has distress and anxiety about potential rejection, embarrassment, or humiliation in social interactions which can be traumatic. https://www.yourmindstrategy.com/LIVE/events/success-permission/
They worry people are watching and judging them and are extremely self-conscious. They have trouble making friends, maintaining relationships, and with daily functioning.
For example an individual with agoraphobia fears being trapped in a specific place, situation, or space where there’s no escape or escape is difficult or humiliating. It can also occur in places where no help is available if they start to panic.
Common triggers are being in a crowd, elevator, bus, movie theatre, or train. Distressing feelings may also arise standing in a line or being in an open space like a parking lot.
An agoraphobic will actively avoid the triggering place or situation, insist on a companion, or endure magnified anxiety and fear. If agoraphobia goes untreated, it can lead to an individual being unable to leave their home due to their angst.
Even though there are so many, phobias will usually fit into one of several categories involving fear of animals, situations, natural environment, medical procedures, or something else unspecified.
We have been helping individuals with phobias and anxiety disorders for the last thirty years with our emotional healing programs. At one of our phobia treatment programs we had a lady who was terrified of snakes for all her life.
She could not see a picture. movie or even hear the “s” word before losing control. After the fifteen minute treatment session, she kept testing herself by looking for bigger and bigger snakes. She eventually took a photograph with a python around her neck before she was convinced she was cured.
We have treatment protocols that include functional medicine and emotional techniques for phobias and other anxiety disorders.
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