Contrary to the fleeting anxiety you might experience before a speech or test, specific phobias are long-lasting, cause intense physical and psychological reactions, and can impair your ability to function normally at work, in school, or in social situations. Specific phobias are an overwhelming and unreasonable fear of objects or situations that pose little real danger but provoke anxiety and avoidance.
There are several therapies that can help people work through and overcome fears — frequently permanently — even though specific phobias are among the most prevalent anxiety disorders and not all phobias require treatment.
Symptoms of Fear Phobias
There are many different types of phobias, and it’s common to have a specific phobia about more than one object or situation. Specific phobias can also occur along with other types of anxiety disorders. Specific phobias involve an intense, persistent fear of a particular object or situation that’s out of proportion to the actual risk.
Specific phobias frequently fall into the following categories:
- situations like traveling by air, being in small spaces, or attending school
- a feature of nature, like heights or thunderstorms
- dogs, spiders, and other animals or insects
- Blood, injection, injury from needles or other objects, or incidents involving medical treatment
- others, like clowns, loud noises, vomiting, choking,
Acrophobia, which refers to a fear of heights, and claustrophobia, which refers to a fear of enclosed spaces, are two examples of more common terms.
Whatever the particular phobia, it is likely to cause the following kinds of reactions:
- An immediate feeling of extreme apprehension, worry, and panic when confronted with your fear or even just thinking about it
- Although you are aware that your fears are unjustified or exaggerated, you still feel helpless to control them.
- As the circumstance or object approaches in time or distance, anxiety worsens.
- either avoiding the thing or situation at all costs, or dealing with it while feeling extreme fear or anxiety
- fear-related difficulties with normal functioning
- Sweating, a pounding heart, a tight chest, or trouble breathing are examples of physical responses and feelings.
- feeling sick to one’s stomach, lightheaded, or dizzy when near blood or wounds
- Children may act out in various ways, including throwing fits, clinging to parents, sobbing, or refusing to go near them when they’re afraid.
Causes of Fear Phobias
The root causes of particular phobias could be any number of things, some of which include:
- Negative experiences.Numerous phobias arise as a result of a traumatic event or panic attack connected to a particular thing or circumstance.
- Genetics and environment.Owning a particular phobia may be related to the anxiety or phobia of one’s parents; this association may be a result of genetics or learned behavior.
- Brain function.The emergence of particular phobias may also be influenced by modifications in brain physiology.
Homeopathic Medicine for Fear Phobias
Aconite –Useful for patients who have a fear of dying and experience anxiety when they think they might pass away soon, even going so far as to predict their death date.
Arsenicum Album –When someone has a fear of dying and is restless, they may not feel the need to take any medication and may move around frequently. Arsenicum Album is a homeopathic medication used to treat these symptoms.
Stramonium –Useful for phobias where the sufferer feels anxious when entering a tunnel or other small, enclosed space. Useful for phobias where the sufferer feels afraid of small, enclosed spaces and yearns to escape.
Phosphorus –Homoeopathic medicine is used to treat phobias of fear, including the fear of being in open spaces and the fear that terrible things will occur.
Lycopodium –When a patient has a strong aversion to taking on new challenges and may feel incapable of reaching a destination, this technique can be helpful for fear phobias with weak memory and a fear of failure.
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