A phobia is usually classed as an overwhelming, unrealistic, irrational, and persistent fear of an object, place, situation, feeling or creature/animal. Typically, this fear will be present for at least 6 months before being classed as a phobia.
A ‘normal’ fear can become a phobia when you start to organise your life around avoiding the object/thing/situation.
Phobias can be split, at the minimum, into two groups:
Simple/Specific Phobia: These centre around a particular object/thing/situation, causing little to no danger. Often, it will develop in childhood and become less severe as the individual gets older. Examples of this type of phobia are spiders (Arachnophobia), needles (Trypanophobia) and flying (Aerophobia) etc.
Complex Phobia: These cause a more disruptive and disabling impact on your life. They can develop in childhood or adulthood and last for many years, or even a lifetime. Common examples of Complex Phobias are the fear of open spaces (Agoraphobia) and Social Phobia.
Complex Phobias are like the name suggests, more complex than Simple/Specific Phobias and sometimes include the addition of other phobias.
Phobias usually emerge from past traumatic experiences but can also be ‘passed down’ from another (such as seeing a family member running and screaming after seeing a spider).
It is widely believed that we only have two naturally instinctive fears, the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises. All other fears are learnt.
This is good to know, as it means that they can also be unlearnt.
Hypnotherapy can be extremely helpful with changing these unwanted thoughts and behaviours in relation to your phobia.
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