Phobia is a symbol of 'Something'
World of Psychology wanted little to discuss about the definition of a phobia. Phobia is a mechanism of escape from conflicts bathiniah of one's soul. Maybe there are about 80 or even 100 kinds of phobias known people now. Phobia- phobias that cause fear of the absurd and illogical. -Phobia phobia usually relate to experiences that pent, who pressed deep and forgotten.
Phobia was seen as emotions substitution and is often called neurosis is pressed (repressed neuroses). Raises fears that something unpleasant things and have pressed the depths of our souls. In other words phobia that has a specific function, namely to hide or divert an entirely different sense of fear is fear of the ever so painful consciousness. So phobia is an escape from a number of psychic conflict within us. Fear of thunder and lightning may indicate the presence of fear in the voice stern father and tantrums.
Fears or emotional distortions that can be traced back into the experiences of our childhood that has been buried. Experiences are pressed this cause chronic anxiety and great distress. Anxiety is channeled through physical channels and in time will worsen his phobia-. If it happens like it then 'vicious cycle' continues to appear without berkesudahan.Yang eventually will make you constantly 'sick'.
Fear is a human reaction that is biologically a protection mechanism for a person in the face of danger. Fear is an emotion that arises when people face a threat that endangers the life or one specific area of life. Fear commonly referred to as a warning sign against life, a warning to stop, look or listen.
Every human being faced with warnings and threats very demanding attention. Fear is really slow and control the large number of psychosomatic emotions. One of the objectives of the control is to help a person to avoid danger and overcome it. When someone overcome fear, happiness and success we are threatened, people often experience pain in the abdomen, palms sweating, heart pounding, lazy move, stuttering and other speech.
Faced with a daunting situation, the reaction is different, there are people who are not afraid of the dog itself, but they are afraid to hear her barking. But there are others who are not bothered barking dogs. There are others who truly afraid of
lightning, while others do not. It is normal in the face of certain danger people feel afraid and fear level was usually comparable to large-small danger. But reality shows that the objective cause of the fear that just forgotten someone,
So the reaction was harder, faster, and cause panic. Such great fear this is not comparable to the cause. This is purely neurotic reaction. Fear is what we call the "Phobia". Just by looking at the black cat, then worried someone will die. Others had almost fainted just because there is a snake approached. Neurotic fear showed no emotional reaction is proportional to the stimulus. In other words, the objective causes of emotional reactions and fears at all
This type of phobia
Experts divide phobias into three main groups, namely agoraphobia (excessive anxiety when in a public place), social phobia (fear of social situations) and specific phobias (irrational fears of objects or situations).
1. Agoraphobia: fear of public places
A person with agoraphobia fear trapped in a public place or places with long queues, as in the bank. This type of phobia at most (nearly 2-fold more) experienced by women than men. If not addressed, will make people cooped up in the house. With treatment, 9 of 10 patients with proven experience improvement.
2. Social phobia
A person with social phobia is not just shy. Patients feel excessive anxiety and fear about their appearance in public. Do they act in accordance with the others? Will others know that they are anxious? Are they going to have words spoken when the time comes?
Because this can lead to social phobia sufferers avoid social contact, it will greatly affect the relationship and their professional lives.
3. claustrofobia: fear of enclosed spaces
Someone with claustrofobia can not ride the elevator or walk down the hall without fear. Because of fear of being caught, phobia sufferers of this type will avoid the narrow space and memilihkebiasaan they think is safe, such as opening a window or sit near the door to the outside. This makes them able to tolerate the situation, but will not assuage fears.
4. Zoophobia: fear of animals
Fear of animals is the most common type of phobia. This type of phobia phobias cover more specific types, such as Arachnophobia (fear of spiders); ophidiofobia (fear of snakes); ornithofobia (fear of birds). This type of phobia is often formed in childhood and will disappear with age. But it can also survive until adulthood.
5. Brontofobia: fear of lightning
Although people with brontofobia aware that lightning will not hurt them, they will refuse to remain outside during a thunderstorm. Chances are they will hide in the room as he crouched behind a sofa or in a closet waiting for the storm to pass.
6. Acrofobia: Fear of heights
This type is characterized by excessive fear of heights. People with this phobia can be attacked as excessive anxiety when climbing stairs. Sometimes the fear is so strong that the patient can not move. This type of phobia can be dangerous because of panic attacks will make people come down from the high place with no caution
7. Fear of flying: fear of flying
Someone with a fear of flying Fear of flying. This type of phobia is usually formed after someone had a bad experience in the aircraft, such as experiencing shock or see other passengers suffered panic attacks. Fear will remain even after the incident is forgotten. Fear terepndam can arise only by watching the plane crash on TV.
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