WEIRD FEELINGS: PHOBIA

  Everyone feels anxious from time to time. This can be in different situations such as writing as exam, travelling, entering a lane for the first time, etc and then you begin to feel uneasy, you start sweating on your palms, your heart starts to beat fast or you start shaking. However, when your anxiety is so serious, that can lead to having phobia.

   Phobia is an anxiety order characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations. A lot of people, in fact almost everyone has something he or she is afraid of. Many of us have fears about particular objects or situations and this is perfectly normal. A fear becomes a phobia if it lasts for more than six months, and has a significant impact on how you live your day-to-day life.

    This can be caused by fear and anxiety when faced with situations that you are afraid of. If this is severe, the objects you think of can cause phobia. Such physical symptoms are chest pain, dizziness unsteadiness, hot or cold flushes, nausea, trembling and shaking. Other symptoms include feeling out of touch, a fear of losing control or dying. It these symbols are very intense, they could trigger a panic attack. Experiencing this type of acute fear is extremely unpleasant and can be very frightening.

   Phobias can be categorized into specific phobia and complex phobias. The specifics are often developed in the childhood or adolescence stage and for many people they will lesson as they get older. However, you may still experience fear and anxiety even when the object or situation is not present. Examples are heights, spiders, water, darkness, blood, vomits, injections, etc

   The complex phobias are the phobias that tend to have more disabling impact on your life than specific phobias. They tend to develop when you are an adult. Social and agrophobia (fear of open space) are the two most common complex phobias. It may be connected one specific situation such as speaking, or it may be that you are afraid of talking to or being around other people.

People ask if there are cures to phobia or if there is any treatment for phobias, but the most prevalent treatment is to focus on helping people or yourself to deal with it. Some methods are: medications, exposure therapy and behaviour therapy. If you think it is getting out of hand, then visit the hospital. You can check out your phobia with the meanings.

Fribriophobia	Fear of fever
Elurophobia	Fear of cats
Ablutophobia	Fear or washing or bathing
Altophobia	Fear of heights
Brontophobia	Fear of thunder and lighting
Bibliophobia	Fear of books
Achluophobia	Fear of darkness
Bromidrosiphobia	Fear of body smell
Cacophobia	Fear of ugliness
Chaetophobia	Fear of hair
Clinophobia	Fear of going to bed
Didaskaleinophobia	Fear of going to school
Debdrophobia	Fear of trees
Dystychiphobia	Fear of accidents
Ephibiphobia	Fear of teenagers
Ergophobia	Fear of work
Frigophobia	Fear of cold
Gerascophobia	Fear of growing old
Gynophobia	Fear of women
Homilophobia	Fear of sermons
Hypegiaphobia	Fear of responsibility
Homophobia	Fear of sameness
Ideophobia	Fear of ideas
Insectophobia	Fear of insect
Kleptophobia	Fear of stealing
Alektorophobia	Fear of chickens
Athazagoraphobia	Fear of being forgotten
Botanophobia	Fear of plants

Which one is yours?