Phobias are an inappropriate fear. They are an exaggeration of something that is around you and you have built up in your imagination as harmful but which actually isn’t. If you have a phobia, you may realise that the fear is out of proportion to the true danger or threat, but you cannot control or explain it. Phobias can last a lifetime and they can cause minor problems and major disabilities.
There are 3 main types of phobias which include
- Specific or simple phobias
- Agoraphobia and
- Social phobia
Specific or simple phobias are very common in young people and infants, in this case they are thought of as normal but can lead to having this phobia when they get older. These fears might be:
Spiders, snakes, insects and mice, storms, heights, weather
Blood, injury, injections, enclosed spaces, lifts, and aeroplanes.
Agoraphobia is when someone has a fear of open spaces and it often starts in the adolescence stage and may occur more in women than men. Agoraphobia is a phobia where you fear to be away from your home and family, and the further away from home that you are the panic attack that you may have will become worse.
Social phobias happen when there is a heightened fear of social situations, for example small groups of people at parties. People with social phobia have no or low confidence with people they don't know, maybe fearing that strangers are criticising them. They may also fear that they will behave in an embarrassing way in public, such as shaking or blushing.
Hypnotherapy can help these phobias by using a range of therapeutic techniques such as desensitising you to the subject of the fear such as spiders, insects and other objects and learning new relaxed responses to overcome the fear in situations where the phobia may usually appear. Sometimes uncovering the source of the fear can help but isn’t generally necessary.
If you have a phobia then Hypnotherapy can help you to feel in control, so you can live your life free of fear.. For more information go to
http://www.tombarber.co.uk/phobias_hypnotherapy.htm
Till next,
Tom.
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