Phobias
One of the confusions of anxiety disorder is phobias which is the excessive, irrational fear of a certain object, a person, or a situation. Although fears are a normal experience among many individuals, phobias are so strong that they have the ability to cause serious problems that can disrupt the normal way of life. Some typical phobias are heights (acrophobia), spiders (arachnophobia) or flying (aviophobia).
Phobias Overview
Understanding Causes, Symptoms, and Risk Factors
Causes
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Family history or, in other words, genetics
- Trauma or maltreatment in childhood
- Emotional abandonment /neglect
- Death of a parent or a care giver
- Family climate: unstable or chaotic
- Neurological or imbalances in the brain structure
- Weak emotional control abilities
- Unpredicable parenting or strict discipline
- Domestic drugs use
- Distorted ways of thinking
- Unstable relationships or strong relationships
- Headstrong or adventurous behavior
- The fear of being abandoned
- Perennial desolation of soul
- Emotional inappropriate or unmanaged anger
- Problems with trusting people
- Extreme and sickening thinking and behavioral patterns
- Weak self images or identity problems
- the inability to work, learn, or interact in social conditions
Risk Factors
Can Phobias be prevented?
Genetics or brain development may be factors, which cause Personality Disorders and these cannot be prevented. But with early intervention and good life experiences the risk or severity of these disorders can be very less or absent.
- CBT practice, including Exposure Therapy: allows one to overcome the fear in a comfortable and gradual manner by slowly subjecting the person to the feared object or feared situation in a safe and controlled manner
- Drugs: drugs such as the SSRIs or anti-anxiety drugs can be offered to assist the patient to deal with the fear of phobias.
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