At some point, especially when we were all young, we suffered from an absurd fear or two and these fears were influenced by a lot of factors including peer threat. You may recall the time when you had shriek and jump onto the nearest elevated object at the sight of cockroaches or rats. And how many wince the moment they realize that they are about to taste the sting brought about by syringe needles which led many to fear doctors, most especially dentists? Many, although already grown ups, have never gotten over their fear of heights, the dark, small and enclosed places, public speaking, and a whole lot more and all these are considered minor types of fears. However, for some, these same fears have led them to react irrationally and the same kind of fear has hindered them from performing several supposedly normal activities that are regularly done by other people and these fears are called phobias – people try many forms of help including the Linden method.
List of phobias are generally grouped into four and they are:
When a phobia is set off by a definite circumstance like the fear of high places, fear of tunnels, fear of flying, fear of elevators, and fear of enclosed places, this kind of fear is tagged as situational phobia.
- When we are young, our fear of needles may have been founded on a fear of pain. But when we start to mature, we should have also outgrown these kinds of fears and we have not, if we still fear shots or the sight of blood or being injured, the type of phobia we are suffering from is called blood-injection-injury phobia.
- Animal phobia is characterized by fears on specific animals or insects. This includes the fear of dogs, fear of spiders, fear of snakes, fear of cockroaches, and the fear of rodents.
- Natural environment phobias are based on fear of heights, of water, fear of the dark, and fear of storms.
- Social phobia is the fear on situations that involve a lot of people such as speaking in public and the like. People who suffer from social phobia are afraid of rejection, of embarrassment, and of being judged by many and this when unchecked may even lead to having panic attacks.
Attacks of phobia is usually characterized by palpitations and a pounding heart, shortness of breath, chest pains, profuse sweating, nausea, stomach stress, a choking feeling, accelerated heart rate that may lead to hypertension.
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