What is a Phobia?
Phobias can be so intense they literally take over the phobics life, often causing severe anxiety and often resulting in panic attacks.
A phobia is an irrational fear of something or someone. Very often a phobic only experiences the phobia once before the unconscious mind learns to be afraid or anxious.This is referred to as one trial learning.
Phobias however are learnt behaviours and just as we learn so we can unlearn. After all we are not born with a phobia! You see the brain is like a computer and it is programmed, so if you decide to work with me I will help yopu re-programme your brain unlearn the phobic behaviour and have a happy comfortable life free from the panic and anxiety that old phobia used to create.
Here are some of the most common phobias:
Psychological conditions
Acrophobia, Altophobia – fear of heights.
Anthropophobia – fear of people or being in a company, a form of social phobia.
Anthophobia – fear of flowers.
Aquaphobia – fear of water. Distinct from Hydrophobia, a scientific property that makes chemicals averse to interaction with water.
Atychiphobia, fear of failure
Aviophobia, Aviatophobia – fear of flying.
Claustrophobia – fear of confined spaces.
Coulrophobia – fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns).
Dental phobia, Dentophobia, Odontophobia – fear of dentists and dental procedures
Emetophobia – fear of vomiting.
Glossophobia – fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
Haptephobia – fear of being touched.
Sociophobia – fear of people or social situations.
Tomophobia – fear or anxiety of surgeries/surgical operations.
Trypanophobia, Belonephobia, Enetophobia – fear of needles or injections.
Xenophobia – fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens.
Ailurophobia – fear/dislike of cats.
Arachnophobia – fear/dislike of spiders.
Chiroptophobia – fear/dislike of bats.
Cynophobia – fear/dislike of dogs.
Entomophobia – fear/dislike of insects.
Herpetophobia - fear/dislike of reptiles.
Musophobia – fear/dislike of mice and/or rats.
Ophidiophobia – fear/dislike of snakes.
Ornithophobia – fear/dislike of birds.
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