Everyone
is born with two hard-wired fears and phobias: sudden loud noises
and falling. Every other fear is learned and can easily be unlearned.
Fears and phobias only become problems when they happen too
often or their intensity affects your life.
When
someone suffers a panic attack, it feels similar to a heart
attack, going insane or losing control. During a panic attack,
you may have physical symptoms, such as shortness of breath,
tingling sensations, ringing in your ears, trembling, a feeling
of choking, chest pain, sweating or heart pounding.
Panic
attacks are usually activated by stressful situations, such
as leaving home, relationship conflicts, or new responsibilities.
A person starts developing 'hyper vigilance' (they focus excessively
on physical sensations), which can result in an increase in
the sensations and worry. In turn, this may produce a full-blown
panic attack. A person can develop anticipatory anxiety (fear
that panic attacks will continue to occur) and begin to avoid
situations that give rise to such anxiety. Once avoidance of
this associated symptom grows, it may develop into agoraphobia.
Sometimes
it is useful to return to past experiences in order to emotionally
remove ourselves from present-day ones. The cognitive process
of understanding why you have the problem may take you back
to your childhood, to find out the first time the 'incident'
occurred. We will conduct this journey in a safe, controlled
environment, which will lead to the event being relived to the
point that it no longer has any emotional charge to it. In turn,
this will lead to the fear or phobia going away.
In
Stress Manaagement Centre which uses Life Stress Reduction /
Traumatic Incident Reduction we can possibly assist the symptons
face by clients with a phobia:
Arachnophobia
Agoraphobia
Aviophobia
Barophobia
Chaetophobia
Dikephobia
Ereuthophobia
Francophobia
Graphophiobia
Hypnophobia
Icthyophobia
Kathisophobia
Lachanophobia
Musophobia
Nephophobia
Ommatophobia
Pogonophobia
Rhabdophobia
Siderophobia
Socialphobia
Triskaidekaphobia
Uranophobia
Xenophobia
Zelophobia.
Not
strictly phobias, but just as relevant, are fear of being in
debt, fear of money, fear of being happy and fear of being successful
can be viewed via our centre.
