How Do I Overcome a Fear of Night?
Dark phobia is a mental illness that is mainly manifested in the fear of darkness and daring not to be alone, with different mental symptoms during the day and at night, and emotional differences. Dark fear is mainly the negative emotions caused by not trusting yourself and being afraid. Judging from the degree of negative emotions, the severity of individual dark phobias.
- Human beings have an instinct, or a flaw, that is, the fear of unknown things, which is difficult for anyone to overcome. Therefore, most people have a fear of darkness and loneliness. This is not a doubt, and they should feel a little comfort to their fear, because everyone has it, and fear is a normal psychological phenomenon. During the day, my eyes can see everything, and a little movement can be seen, but at night, darkness covers the earth, and we can see nothing without the help of light. Even the slightest movement will make us doubt for a long time. [1]
- Usually at night, inexplicable when alone.
- In CCMD-3, the diagnostic criteria for phobia are as follows:
- 1) Meet
- 1. Perform relaxation training. The method is to sit in a comfortable seat, take regular deep breaths, and relax your body. After entering the relaxed state, take out the first card of the above series and imagine the scene above. The more realistic and vivid the imagination, the better.
- 2. If you feel a little anxious, nervous and scared, stop and stop imagining and take a deep breath to relax yourself again. After being completely relaxed, re-imagine the situation you just failed. If restlessness and tension recur, stop and relax again, and so on, until the situation on the card no longer makes you upset and nervous.
- 3. Proceed in the same way to the next more scary scene (next card). Note that every time you enter the imagination of the next card, you must take the standard of no longer feeling uneasy and nervous when imagining the previous card, otherwise you must not enter the next stage.
- 4. List the scenes that can cause you tension and fear, in order from light to heavy (the more specific, the better the details), copy them to different cards, and put the scenes that will not scare you the most. Foremost, put the ones that scare you the last, and arrange the cards in order.
- 5. When you imagine the scene that scares you the most and you do nt feel blushing, you can then perform on-site training in order from light to heavy. If you feel uneasy and nervous at the scene, let yourself take a deep breath to relax and fight until Stop being afraid and nervous.
- 6. When your dark phobia is more serious, and you can't cure it by the above methods, you can choose to adjust it, and you will get the expected results. [2]