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Simple phobia, also known as special phobia, is a common type of phobia, which refers to a kind of fear and fear that is displayed for an object or a specific scene. Once a person with simple phobia encounters what he fears, he will have nervousness, dizziness, sweating, and even coma. ^[1]

Simple phobia means that the patient has an unreasonable fear of a specific object, animal, etc. Patients have strong and unnecessary fears about certain objects, with avoidance behaviors. Such as fear of snakes, dogs, cats, rats, birds, spiders, frogs, caterpillars, etc. Some patients are afraid of blood or sharp objects, and some are afraid of natural phenomena, such as darkness, wind, thunder and lightning. Patients know that this fear is excessive, should not be unreasonable, but this recognition still does not prevent the onset of fear. The object of fear is usually a single specific, such as animals, squares, closed rooms, ascending or social activities. General division

1. Psychological conflict:

It is believed that simple phobia originates from children's sexual psychological conflict. Through the defense mechanism of replacement, a irrelevant object or situation symbolically replaces the person who caused the psychological conflict, thereby avoiding psychological conflict and separation anxiety. As a type of anxiety, phobia comes from the self's response to danger. The difference in the level of response depends on the original attribution.

2. Mental factors:

Psychological factors often play an important role in the pathogenesis. For example, when someone encounters a car accident and fears the ride, it may happen that a certain situation happens on the background of anxiety, or acute anxiety occurs in a certain situation, and they become feared and become a target of terror.

3. Personality disorders:

Phobia is related to personality disorders. Phobia occurs mostly in people with avoidable personality disorders. This personality disorder manifests itself as a lack of confidence and sensitivity. Researchers have analyzed the effects of pathopsychological treatment on 57 patients with phobia, and the results suggest that most of these patients have characteristics such as loneliness, introversion, self-esteem, and shyness.

1. Animal fear: Patients will be afraid of certain animals, such as dogs, cats, chickens, etc. Don't say to touch them, even if you dare not watch them, even seeing toy animals or seeing animals on TV will be frightened.

2. Fear of disease: Patients are very afraid of becoming ill, such as cancer, sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, etc. In order to avoid being infected or even shaking hands with others, they must wear gloves or dare not contact with others.

3. Other fears: Phobia related to specific fear objects can be classified into this category. For example, some people are afraid of seeing blood, and even fainting, and these people have "phobia of seeing blood." In addition, there are thunderstorm phobias and dark fears.

1. Avoid contact. The fear of simple phobia is limited to specific occasions, such as fear of approaching a particular animal, fear of height (phobia), fear of lightning, fear of darkness, fear of flying, fear of closed spaces (claustrophobia), fear of urination in public toilets Or defecation, fear of eating certain food, fear of dentist, fear of seeing blood or seeing injury, etc. Although the predisposing factors are different, contact with them can trigger panic attacks like local or social fears. So in order to avoid panic attacks, pay attention to avoid contact with these things.

2. Drug treatment. For simple phobias, the best way is to use medication. Commonly used among them is Jingshen Dingphobia, which is composed of pure Chinese medicine and is almost harmless to the human body. It can also play a role in regulating the body during the treatment of the disease. It is a better choice for the treatment of phobias.