Phobia And Anxiety

by Esteban Cavrico

What is a Phobia?
A phobia may be a scenario that the subconscious mind perceives as a threat to the well-being and safety of the person, whether or not or not, the person rationally considers it to be a threat. As an example, with arachnophobia (worry of spiders/arachnids), the sufferer will rationally be saying to him/herself that spiders are harmless within the acutely aware mind, however when confronted with the creatures, the worry experienced might be thus intense as to feel life-threatening.
With all sorts of phobias, family and friends, with all good intentions, may tell the sufferer, “pull yourself together” but this can do nothing but worsen the condition. A phobia is very a lot of like a nightmare where the sufferer is scared witless by traditional things, but somehow in the dream, these everyday things can summon terror. Therefore a phobia could be a nightmare, but it’s occurring in full day-time waking consciousness.
Anxiety or Phobia?
Anxiety may be said to be “feeling worried a ton of the time”, but when there’s a phobia, the symptoms begin to manifest within the body as well. For instance… Irregular/racing heart beats in the course of palpitations, which cause a rise in respiration (sometimes manifesting as speedy, shallow respiratory). This could then develop into a sense of light-headedness, faintness or dizziness and serious perspiration. Then, when the sufferer has removed him/herself from the environment that’s generating the phobia, the phobia will in all probability decrease in intensity however he/she may be left with severe muscle tension, aches and pains and/or upset digestive system.
What needs to happen in therapy is that the victim faces his/her phobias and fears, at his/her own speed. I emphasise “own speed” as a result of if a victim is pushed prematurely to confront his/her phobia, it will do nothing to alleviate the matter and could in all probability even build the phobia worse. With a hypnotherapist, hypnosis would most likely be used to help inspire the sufferer to try to to what ever it takes to reduce the intensity of the phobia at his/her own rate. This is often achieved by making in the subconscious mind, an improved self-image of how he/she needs to be in day-to-day life. Sometimes, but not forever, it is necessary to assist the victim recognise the root-cause of the phobia, and then he/she is empowered to analyse it and let it go.
Gradually, the sufferer feels that he/she wants to create improvements (regardless of how little) every and every day. As the subject makes these enhancements, his/her confidence grows and it’s quite common that he/she may even begin to experience a way of euphoria at his/her progress.
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