What Are the Most Common Fears?

Symptoms of phobia include fear of leaving home alone, entering a store, a crowded place, or a public place, or travelling alone by train, bus, or plane. Panic attacks, depression, obsessive-compulsive symptoms are common, and social fear is a secondary symptom.

Place phobia

Symptoms of phobia include fear of leaving home alone, entering a store, a crowded place, or a public place, or travelling alone by train, bus, or plane. Often manifested as panic attacks,

The cause of place phobia is currently unclear, and a more consistent view is that there may have been something that scared him at the time. It didn't matter, but the patient would think of something more terrible. This would cause escape and escape. He felt a sense of security, so he had "fear-avoid" conditioning.

In life and work, there are always some situations that require us to go out for shopping and business trips alone. For most people, this can be done, but for some people, they are too afraid to leave home. After leaving home, he was in a situation where he couldn't help or couldn't leave immediately, or even closed his door. Such people are likely to suffer from so-called place-phobia.

Place phobia mainly manifests the fear of certain specific environments, such as high places, squares, enclosed environments and crowded public places. Patients are afraid to leave home or to be alone, to enter shopping malls, theaters, stations, or to take public transportation. The Stanford Neuropsychological Research Center in the United States said that because patients are worried about fear in these places, they cannot get help and cannot escape. Patients therefore try to avoid these environments, and even dare not go out at all.

Phobia

Place phobia often begins with a spontaneous panic attack and then produces expectations

1. Prone to occur in young men and women, more women than men, most of the onset is between 18 to 35 years old.

2. Fear of crowded places: such as venues, theaters, restaurants, food markets, department stores, etc., or waiting in line; fear of using public transportation: such as by car, train, subway, airplane, etc .; fear of leaving home alone , Or stay at home alone; afraid to go to open places: such as wilderness, open parks;

3. Fear is often accompanied by obvious autonomic nerve symptoms, such as dizziness, fainting, palpitations, palpitation, tremor, sweating, etc .; personality disintegration or syncope may occur in severe cases;

4. Have repeated or persistent avoidance behaviors;

5. Feeling nervous when you are expected to encounter a situation of fear, called anticipation anxiety;

6. Know that fear is excessive, unreasonable, or unnecessary, but cannot be controlled;

7. Can be divided into two clinical subtypes without panic attack and panic attack. ^[1]

1. Crowded places, such as supermarkets, theaters,

Wilderness fear. Patients are afraid when they pass through open areas, accompanied by strong anxiety. Therefore, patients are afraid to cross the wilderness, even to cross the street in severe cases, to cross bridges, to cross courtyards and corridors.

The claustrophobic. The patient showed fear in the enclosed space. For example, you are afraid to stay in a house alone, to take an elevator or subway, or to enter a movie theater; the windows will not open.

Altitude fear. This is often referred to as "phobia of heights." Patients show fear of ascending, such as going upstairs, crossing an overpass, or flying.

Regarding the treatment of place phobia, it mainly starts from three aspects: psychological cognition, behavior and drugs.

First of all, in terms of psychological cognition, we must firmly believe that none of the horror phenomena in place phobia will become a reality. Even if you have panic or dizziness when you go out, it does not matter. This symptom will relieve itself after the first few minutes . As long as the patient can hold on for this period of time. As for whether you will go crazy or lose your control, don't be afraid, because why people who are worried that they will go mad?

Secondly, in terms of behavior, you must have the courage to "know that there are tigers in the mountains, and prefer to travel to the mountains." , Gradually until one can move. In short, you cannot hide at home to overcome this vicious circle.

As for drugs, stabilization drugs or SSRI drugs are very useful for the treatment of place phobia, but they should be under the guidance of a doctor.

1. Positive self-suggestions:

Every night before going to bed and after waking up in the morning, I said to myself 20 times, "I accept myself, I believe in myself!" Through this positive self-psychological cues, we gradually change our previous negative ideas of ourselves, learn to accept ourselves and cultivate Own confidence.

2. System desensitization training:

Change is unlikely to happen in one step. It is a gradual process, and we need to overcome our nervousness step by step. First set a series of behavioral goals for yourself, such as 10 communication scenes you used to be nervous about, and then arrange them in order from easy to difficult according to your own situation. In this way, one by one, social practice training is carried out, and each one is easy and comfortable, and you can enter the next exercise. We must believe that human abilities are gradually cultivated and developed through practical activities, as are social abilities.

3. Mirror skills:

Take about 10 minutes a day, stand in front of the mirror, look at your eyes in the mirror, and say to yourself: "I believe I can interact with others easily and freely!" "I believe I can change successfully!" Repeated so many times, you must experience the changes in your heart, and feel whether you believe this sentence.

4.Relaxation training:

Find a quiet and undisturbed place, sit down comfortably, close your eyes, and imagine that you have come to a quiet place surrounded by green mountains and trees, and your mood becomes peaceful. Now I start to relax. Imagine that the head, neck, arms, chest, abdomen, back, hips, thighs, calves, and feet become looser and softer ... at least once a day. Through regular exercises, this can help us control ourselves Your body helps to overcome tension.

5. Read biographies of great men:

Try to see the biographies of some celebrities and greats, use their growth and successful experiences to motivate yourself, and build up the courage and confidence that you are willing to change. At the same time, after watching the deeds of these greats, you can also play an idol role. Will potentially imitate some of their positive thoughts and behaviors (eg biographies of Helen Keller, Lincoln, Ford, Nobel, etc.).

People with fear of the place have unnecessary and very fearful feelings about certain situations and occasions, and cannot avoid them as much as they can. Not only is it difficult for others to understand, but sometimes they also know that they are impractical and unreasonable, but they ca nt get rid of it. This is morbid horror. But just relying on the above-mentioned self-treatment methods can't really get rid of the place phobia. You can choose Jingshen Terrorizing Agent for conditioning so as to get rid of the place phobia in the shortest time. ^[2]

Lao Chen is a salesman. Two years ago, when he was waiting for a train at a train station in Hangzhou to arrive in Shanghai, he suddenly felt dizzy, flustered, confused, and a bit unable to control his thinking. Panicked, I immediately bought a ticket back to Wenzhou. In the past two years, he never dared to travel, and even Jiang Xin and Yan Dang did not succeed, because he was afraid of accidents or out of control. It is considered to have "rat disease". Abnormal pain in my heart requires psychological treatment.

This phenomenon, like Lao Chen, belongs to "location phobia". Its characteristics are that patients are often afraid to leave home, afraid of being alone, afraid of being in a powerless state or leaving the place immediately after leaving home, and some patients are completely trapped by it. at home. Many patients are panicking at the thought of mental breakdown in public places, so they try to avoid fear situations. The patient knows that this fear is excessive, should not be, and is not reasonable, but this recognition still does not prevent the onset of fear.

Onset is mostly between 18 and 35 years old. Fear of walking instability or falling in an open place. Patients are more than 40 years old, and the course of the disease tends to be chronic. In general, the course of place phobia often fluctuates. Many patients can improve for a short time or even completely resolve.