What is mneophobia?
Mneophobia is irrational and excessive fear of memories. People who suffer from mneophobia may worry that they generally have memories, or they can specifically fear certain bad memories. Others with mneophobia may be afraid of losing their memories, and this type of phobia is considered common in patients with Alzheimer's disease and patients with a high risk of Alzheimer's disease. Like other phobias, mnemophobia may suddenly occur after a single traumatic event or can develop more slowly over time. Mneophobia can cause serious anxiety symptoms when patients are confronted with memories or the idea of losing memories. Usually, the subject of fear is something that most people would not consider dangerous, such as dogs, bridges or open spaces. Many phobias such as arachnophobia or fear of spiders are quite common. In fact, most phobias do not require treatment if a person can successfully avoid object of fear without suffering from reduced quality of life.
most phobies withE assumes that he develops after a single psychological trauma in a person's life. For example, a person who missed a dog bitter mneophobia can occur after a single psychological trauma and is usually associated with the anxiety of the patient about confrontation with bad or painful memories.
In some cases, however, mneophobia may develop as a result of stress. Some patients reported the development of fear of memories during particularly stressful life periods. In many cases, mneophobia is not suddenly coming, as if it is a particularly harmful psychological trauma. Sometimes mneophobia evolves slowly, because the psyche will find more and more reasons for this act to associate the negative consequences of memories. In cases where mneophobia comes slowly, psychologists often cannot determine a unique reason for the disorder.
Alzheimer's patients are considered particularly vulnerable to mneophobia. Stress from diagnostics and learning to follow, this condition can contribute to the development of this type of phobia in Alzheimer patients. The nature of Alzheimer himself can also be a strong factor contributing. Alzheimer's patients may be particularly susceptible to the development of fear of losing memories, as extreme memory loss often occurs due to advanced Alzheimer's disease.
When people suffering from mneophobia are confronted with their memories, or ask them to face the prospects of losing their memories, intense anxiety and even panic. The physical symptoms of this anxiety often include rapid breathing, irregular heart rhythm, increased sweating, dry mouth, nausea, shaking and shortness of breath. Psychologs generally treats this and other phobia therapy responses to exposure, in which patients are gently encouraged to face the object of fear, to understand that the object of fear is not as dangerous as patients can believe.