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A phobia is an uncontrollable irrational fear that can be very difficult for a person to cope with. Obsessive fears come in different forms. People can be afraid not only of spiders, frogs, and mice, but also of long words, chickens, constipation, and deer.
Social phobias
A person may experience the most terrible experiences and fear of certain social situations. This type of obsessive fear can cause serious problems in professional and personal life.
Fear of heights - acrophobia
People with such fears are sometimes afraid to go down a regular staircase and may freeze in fear and cling to the railing.
Aerophobia
People who are impressionable and emotional suffer especially from this phobia. Once they pass through the turbulence zone, the fear sticks to them for life. Sometimes it can be cured with hypnotherapy, but more often a person is forced to live with this phobia for life.
Medical fears
There is a whole complex of fears that are associated with medicine. The most common is hemophobia - fear of the sight of blood, as well as fear of injections and injuries - trypanophobia. Often these fears end in fainting.
Fear of the paranormal
Some people are afraid of paranormal phenomena, that is, things that do not actually exist. For example, the fear of ghosts is phasmophobia or triskaidekaphobia - the fear of the number "thirteen".
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Emetophobia
This fear is related to the fear of vomiting, and it is treated with hypnotherapy. The reasons can be different, for example, unpleasant memories from childhood or teenage problems.
Fear of cancer - carcinophobia
Of course, everyone is afraid of cancer, and no one would like to be a cancer patient. But for those who suffer from this phobia, the fear of getting cancer takes on such an irrational shade that all ailments are immediately attributed to the first signs of cancer development.
Agoraphobia
This type of fear can manifest itself differently in each person. For example, some people are afraid of queues, others are afraid of being on a bridge. This phobia can be treated quite successfully - in nine cases out of ten, everything returns to normal. However, if treatment does not help, then the person can become a real recluse.
Claustrophobia
Fear of confined spaces is not that rare. People suffering from claustrophobia cannot calmly ride in an elevator and experience fear of new rooms. They try to immediately notice where the exit is and stay close to the windows.