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Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Phobia is an uncontrollable irrational fear, which it is sometimes very difficult for a person to cope with. Obsessive fears are different. People can fear not only spiders, frogs and mice, but also long words, chickens, locks and deer.
Social phobia
A person can experience terrible experiences and fear of certain social situations. This kind 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 the ordinary ladder and may in awe freeze and cling to the railing.
Aerofobia
Especially suffer from this phobia people are impressionable and emotional. Once they go through a zone of turbulence and fear sticks to them for life. Sometimes it can be cured by hypnotherapy, but more often a person has to live with this phobia all his life.
Medical fears
There is a whole complex of fears that are associated with medicine. The most common - hemophobia - fear of the type 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, something that does not really exist. For example, fear of ghosts - phasmophobia or triskaidekafobiya - fear of the number "thirteen".
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Emetophobia
This fear is associated with fear of vomiting, and he is treated with hypnotherapy. The reasons are different, for example, unpleasant memories from childhood or adolescent problems.
Fear of cancer - carcinophobia
Of course, everyone is afraid of cancer, and no one would like to be an oncologist. But those who suffer from this phobia, the fear of getting cancer acquires such an irrational shade that all the ailments are immediately written off to the first signs of the development of cancer.
Agoraphobia
Each kind of fear can manifest itself in different ways. For example, someone is afraid of queues, someone is on the bridge. This phobia is treated quite successfully - in nine cases out of ten everything comes back to normal. However, if treatment does not help, then a person can become a real recluse.
Claustrophobia
Fear of enclosed space is not so rare. People suffering from claustrophobia can not safely ride in the elevator and are afraid of new premises. They try to immediately notice where the exit is and stay close to the windows.