First you need to decide what is phobia. So, a phobia is an obsessive irrational fear of an object or situation that does not carry a threat. Note that fear and phobia are two different things. Suppose, for example, that you are afraid to fly on airplanes, but if necessary, although not without difficulty, but you can cope with yourself and become a passenger of some Boeing - this is not a phobia. But if you are ready to cancel an important transaction or refuse an interesting trip, only to not approach these flying incarnations of horror - that's a phobia, and without the help of a specialist you can not do.
What are phobias?
There are no phobias in a person, there is even an obsessive phobia fear - phobophobia. By the way, at the moment more than 600 different phobias are known, and regularly psychologists and psychotherapists diagnose new varieties of this condition. In modern psychology distinguish:
- agoraphobia - fear of open space and a large number of people, often represents a combination of several similar phobias (for example, fear of crowds and fear of public speaking, although the latter may be a kind of social phobia);
- social phobia - fear of embarrassing situations that may arise, in front of other people and public condemnation, following them. People with social phobia may be afraid to participate in public events, talk on the phone, and even eat, in the presence of other people;
- simple phobias - fear of a certain object, creature or phenomenon (for example, arachnophobia - fear of spiders, hippophobia (equinophobia) - fear of horses, leukophobia - fear of white color).
By the way, the last most common of all phobias, which are in humans. One in ten people suffers from one of them in the world.
And lastly, we all have some fears , but whether they become phobias, poisoning life, depends on the person himself. So, people who perceive the world around them as "bayonets" are more likely to suffer obsessive fears. Remember this when once again decide to think about "how terrible it is to live."