Different phobias today no one to surprise: the fear of darkness, open space, large crowds and other "oddities" are found at every step. But if the fear of something dangerous (a thunderstorm, a car, a snake) is normal, from the point of view of common sense, how to explain the fear of small holes ?
What is triphofobia?
Triphobobia is a fear of cluster holes, that is, close-lying holes of small size, their accumulations. These holes can be found on any organic objects: skin, flowers, trees, food, other objects. Pathology is relatively young: the term was introduced in 2004 and derived from two Greek words: "drilling" and "fear."
Official medicine has not yet recognized triphophobia, although many people around the world claim to suffer from fear of clusters of holes. People who suffer from this phobia can be panic-stricken by the usual things: sponges for washing dishes, cheese (of course, with holes), honeycombs, holes in the stones, acne and dilated pores on the skin, wounds and so on.
Triphobobia - the causes of
This type of fear develops for spontaneous reasons, but often the phobia has an explanation - hereditary, mental, age, cultural, etc. The first studies of anxiety disorder have shown that the panic attack is not caused by fear but disgust, but sometimes the brain connects the shapes of small holes with the danger . Fear of repetitive openings can occur for a number of reasons:
- Associated associations with skin diseases;
- classification of an object with a danger, for example, poisonous animals;
- psychological trauma, including children's;
- heredity or genetic predisposition to a disorder.
How does tryptophobia develop?
Sometimes after a childhood trauma, a person does not suffer from a phobia for a long time, and then a fear of holes suddenly manifests itself. External events, unpleasant life experience, family relationships, conflicts, chronic stress exert influence on this. Or just a picture on the Internet or an unpleasant movie cause horror, and then - in a well-laid out scheme: a person begins to beware and to bypass all that causes the experience experienced.
Triphobobia can manifest itself with age, since human fears have properties to accumulate. The prerequisites for the emergence of irrational fear are many, but the start should be logical circumstances that can injure a person and cause stress. Manifestations of the disease can be not fear in its pure form, but dislike and increased disgust.
Triphobobia is a myth or a reality?
Fear of holes is an ambiguous disease, questioned in the medical environment, and many are concerned with the question: does triphobobia really exist or are it confused with disgust? According to some physicians, fear of holes is an explicable phenomenon, but between disgust and a fit of panic there is a big difference. When a person avoids bee honeycombs or frowns at the sight of acne - this is explained by logic, and when he can not control himself when looking at porous chocolate - there is a mental disorder and an obsession.
Triphobobia - symptoms
Depending on the person and his inner experiences, the anxiety syndrome manifests itself in different ways. The most common symptoms are: dizziness, nausea, nervous tremor, skin itching, fever. Acute panic attacks often do not cause fear of many holes, although contact with an unpleasant object can result in fainting. Fear also manifests itself in the following unusual sensations:
- a person can not look away from the object of disgust;
- it seems to him that someone is crawling along the body;
- there is a threat from the holes;
- minor motor skills are disrupted.
How to get rid of triphophobia?
Health and life fear of cluster holes is not threatening, but complicates existence, so the patient faces the question: how to get rid of phobia? Ways and methods of treatment are the same as for other obsessive fears: medication, psychotherapy sessions (group, individual), breathing exercises. The doctor's task is to restore the patient's normal state at the sight of the stimulus. A patient with somatic disorders is prescribed sedatives, in complicated cases - with convulsions, pain syndrome, etc. - hospital treatment is indicated.
Triphobobia - consequences
If you do not give proper attention to the treatment of pathology, it can become a serious problem. It's rare, but it happens. For severe form, symptoms such as migraine, fainting, severe headaches, involuntary and painful muscle contraction, increase in their tone are characteristic. Triphobobia is a disease that forms in the mind of a person, but if left untreated, serious changes occur in the body that can lead to impaired motor functions.
Correct and prompt intervention, support of loved ones and competent psychotherapy will help to get rid of fear. For each patient, who is afraid of a large number of holes prevents him from living, a special, individual approach is required. The course of the disease passes in different ways, and in the emergence of phobia its prerequisites. There is no diagnosis of "triphophobia", but methods of its treatment have been found and successfully tested.