Fear and man
Many diseases that threaten human health and life, such as physical illnesses, epidemics or mental illnesses, have spread in recent times. Just as physical diseases are affecting many people, so are mental illnesses. Some mental illnesses can affect people and cause many health problems. And diseases such as pressure, heart disease and diabetes, as well as severe damage to the psychological and human personality, and one of the most deadly mental illness of people is the disease of fear.
Definition of fear
Fear as defined in the language is panic, fear afraid of fear and fear, and say the fear of man another man any sense to make in his heart fear and panic, and also the fear of any man in the sense of making people afraid of him. A term is a mind-related instinct that appears in multiple symptoms for a variety of reasons.
Definition of phobias
“Phobia” or “phobia” is a condition that refers to excessive and inappropriate fear towards a particular subject, thing or situation in which a person feels that he is out of control of this excessive sense of anxiety and fear and can not stop him. Linked to various stimuli that lead to it.
The reasons behind the fear
A sense of fear is one feeling that is different from one person to another. It may be expressed by a person in his abstract name (fear), and it may be expressed as another horror, for example, indicating that the fear has different intensity and degrees.
For example, children are afraid of unfamiliar faces, of loud sounds or noise, but fearful situations acquire strength and intensity in learning coupled with pain or distress, so they are different in their type and effect from For example, a child may raise his hands to defend himself if he feels that he is angry before him if he has previously been beaten by an angry person and feels that position with pain, to be an experience of fear when exposed to similar situations.
Sections of fear
Fear in general is divided into five main sections:
- Fear of annihilation : In other words fear of death, and fall under it a lot of fears that are originally fear of the end or death explained in different ways, fear of the highlands, for example is a fear of falling and thus disappearance.
- Fear of amputation or deformation : This category includes all fears related to the human body and the possibility of danger or malformation or malfunctions in the systems of work, such as fear of insects or snakes that may distort the shape or poison the body.
- Fear of losing freedom : Concerns related to loss of control and detention, such as fear of enclosed spaces, fall into this category, but also have a side that in some cases affects individual relationships, such as fear of association.
- Fear of loss or separation : This fear is closely related to others, where the problems of attachment and fear of moving away from others or separation from those we love fall under.
- Fear of harming me : The ego is the human being and his personality and his thoughts and actions, and this fear is on the ego from the sense of insult, or lack of appreciation, or humiliation, or prejudice that detracts from dignity or self-esteem.
Treatment of severe fear
There is more than one way in psychology used to treat the patient and help him to get rid of the intense fear, the patient can do it himself or carried out and supervised by a specialist therapist.
Treat attitudes that are based on false beliefs
This method addresses the patient’s reasoning and corrects the misconceptions that lead him to fear. In this case, fears are often based on hypothetical things that a person thinks. For example, people who are afraid of using elevators or “elevator phobia” That the elevator if it stopped, the air will run out, and they will suffer from lack of oxygen and then suffocation, so the cause of fear is just concerns and ideas can be corrected, and not based on reality or scientific facts.
Intensive exposure to fear or treatment by immersion method
This type of treatment is by forcing the patient to confront his fears or stimuli that cause him fear, either by confrontation of imagination or real confrontation.
Imagine confrontation
In this case the therapist asks the patient to imagine the situations or things that make him afraid and cause great concern to him, and imagines him and provokes him to feel more fear and more rest, where the fear ranges from less exciting situations to the most exciting to become a state of serious concern for Long of imagining what frightens, and thinking about it and fearing it until it gradually insures this fear and gets rid of it.
Immersion in reality
In this case, the patient is forced to face his fears directly for long periods so that the anxiety rises relatively until it reaches its peak and then begins to fear this gradual decline. For example, if the patient suffers from fear of using the car, the wizard forced him to use long distances for more than once, the patient is very anxious and fear of lengthening the distance to finish, and then gradually reduce this anxiety until it is reduced and remove completely and rid the patient of fear. It is worth mentioning that this method proves more effective when a therapist is done by the patient himself.