Coping With And Understanding Social Phobias | Quays Clinic of Hypnotherapy

All About Phobias

Learning about phobias helps to understand how some people suffer from them and why. A phobia is a fear of something, and some do seem silly. There are many instances in which a phobia can be cured. It takes a strong willed person with a general desire to overcome that fear to move past it. Phobia treatment generally begins with therapy sessions to find the source and reason for the fear.

A Brief list Of Phobias:

● Aviophobia is the fear of flying

● Dentophobia is the dental phobia

● Phobophobia is the phobia of phobias

● Phronemophobia is the fear of thinking

● Pediculophobia is the fear of lice

● Peniaphobia is the fear of poverty

● Botanophobia is the fear of plants

● Cacophobia is the fear of uglines

Strange Phobias

● Bolshephobia is the fear of Bolsheviks

● Carthisophobia is the fear of sitting

● Clinophobia is the fear of going to bed

● Consecotaleophobia is the fear of chopsticks

● Dipsophobia is the fear of drinking

● Epistemophobia is the fear of knowledge

As you can clearly see, there is a phobia for everything under the sun, including the sun. Vertigo is a common symptom when someone experiences an anxiety attack or other symptoms when confronted with a phobia. Social anxiety phobias are common, but are more commonly diagnosed as mental health illnesses. These phobias are often treated by a psychologist with medication and/or therapeutic sessions. Anxiety disorders often stem from phobias. The fear raises your heartbeat and causes excess adrenaline to be produced in your body. Anxiety disorders can be dangerous if they are not treated by a professional to the point that panic attacks occur.

Overcoming Fears And Phobias

Many people that suffer from phobias are ridiculed because of their fear. It is important to realize that for these people, these fears are justified and very real. It affects their performance in social settings, and social phobia help is often needed to help them in these situations so that they can function normally and fit in. There are a variety of treatment options available with a lot of them being exercises to overcome the phobia. Some therapists help suffers to realize that their phobia is nothing to be afraid of and take small steps at a time to work toward making their fear a part of their everyday life. Take, for example, the fear of driving or being in a vehicle.

A therapist may take the approach to just have the patient sit in a car a few times for only a few minutes. The next step would be to put on the seat belt and start the car. After this is done, moving the car a few feet is the next progression followed by driving on side streets and in empty parking lots. Each progression makes the task a little more stressful, decreasing the comfort level to get the patient accustomed to driving in regular traffic. All of these steps are small, and none are pressured. For some, it takes years to overcome a phobia by just taking a few small steps at a time.

Hypnotherapy For Phobias

If you are looking for hypnotherapy in Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead or Sunderland contact clinical hypnotherapist Ian Smith. Hypnotist Ian Smith is an Internationally respected therapist who has many years of experience in helping people to overcome phobias.

Ian Smith (Distinction) D.Hyp  T.F.T  M.U.F.H  M.A.A.H  U.K.C.H.O  N.R.H  C.I.S.H
Quays Clinic of Hypnotherapy in North Shields
Telephone: 0774 3353367.