{"id":6099,"date":"2023-05-08T07:57:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T07:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourgrowth.guide\/?p=6099"},"modified":"2023-05-08T07:57:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T07:57:55","slug":"do-you-have-any-phobias-face-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourgrowth.guide\/en\/do-you-have-any-phobias-face-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you have any phobias? Face them!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paralyzed by the sight of a spider? Panicking at the edge of a staircase? Drowning in an elevator?<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever phobia you have, common or very rare, it definitely makes life difficult for you.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the difference between phobia and fear?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Fear is a normal feeling that you feel in the face of an objective danger and it helps you to take measures to save yourself from the danger. So fear is a useful and valuable survival emotion in the perils of life.<\/span><\/p>\n

A phobia is an irrational feeling towards a condition that appears to other people to be perfectly safe. However, the moment you face your phobia, you feel shivery, paralyzed, sweaty, flushed, panicked, scared to death, want to throw up, or have a tendency to faint (the latter applies especially if you are afraid of blood or needles). For you, your phobia is a real threat, so you have all the psychological and physical symptoms of a real crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to classical psychoanalytic theory, the phobia is the result of an intrapsychic conflict, which is afraid to express itself differently and invents an object of fear, which is more “permissible” than the forbidden inner impulse.<\/span><\/p>\n

To be diagnosed as actually suffering from a phobia, you must have the same negative feelings every time you are faced with it, for a period of more than 6 months and not go through a particular period where you are possessed by intense stress.<\/span><\/p>\n

Statistics – info<\/b><\/h2>\n

From some specific phobia, 5-15% of the general population suffers, with an emphasis on the female sex, who represent 75-90% of cases.<\/span><\/p>\n

For some phobias, such as the phobia of animals, the onset can be made at the age of about 7 years, while e.g. the phobia of airplanes can manifest itself after the age of 22, where the young adult begins to travel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Each culture can shape its own phobias, e.g. in Asia they shudder at the notion of humiliation while in America they fear the possibility of condemnation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some phobias, such as the phobia of snakes, may not be as common today because we encounter snakes less often, but they have remained with us as phobias, as an evolutionary result of our human heritage from earlier times when the danger was more direct, frequent and objective.<\/span><\/p>\n

How does a phobia start?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Most phobias begin in childhood and if not treated in time continue with the same intensity or even more during adult life.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you experienced intense anxiety, paralysis and terror as children, this anxiety has become psychologically fixed in you and flares up in the face of the object of your phobia, even as an adult.<\/span><\/p>\n

The phobia usually starts in childhood, because:<\/span><\/p>\n