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Types of phobias: Irrational phobias

Scientists have divided phobia into many types, here are the most important:

social phobia

• It expresses fear of people and their looks, and fear of being exposed to accidents that cause embarrassment.
  • Like eating in front of a group of people.
• It is the sufferer’s fear of appearing inappropriate or low in his thoughts.
• This type can be eliminated with psychological treatment, but without that it is difficult.
• One of its types is what is called specific social phobia, which is stress in certain situations only.
  • Its psychological effects can also have physical effects, such as shy bladder.
  • Which means that the patient is unable to urinate unless he has a great deal of privacy.
• It has another type called generalized phobia, which is problems with stress from crowds and not from specific situations.

Specific phobia

It is a fear of the following things:

• Fear of animals, spiders, snakes, mice, and dogs.
• The nature of the environment, such as fear of heights, fear of old age, and fear of lightning and thunder.
• The nature of the circumstances, such as fear of closed areas, fear of the dark, and fear of being close to water and seas.
• Fear of bleeding, accidents, sanitary tools such as needles, and surgical procedures.
• Fear of exposure to a dangerous epidemic, fear of fetuses and loud noises.

Agoraphobia

• It is the fear of leaving the house, the fear of sitting at home, or the fear of confined spaces.
  • Which the patient used to be there, causing panic attacks.
• This type occurs due to fear of any place where there are large gatherings and people, such as restaurants, supermarkets, and means of transportation.
• Examples include the fear of uncleanliness, which is called obsessive-compulsive disorder, and the problems to which the patient is exposed.
  • Any place where there are people far from home.
• Agoraphobia is very severe, and over the days the condition of the sufferer develops, leading to his refusal to leave the house.

Complex phobia

• This type of phobia has harmful and harmful side effects, and poses a threat to the patient’s life.
• The most dangerous type of phobia.
• The risk increases as the patient reaches adulthood.

Glossophobia

• It is the tension of speaking in the presence of people.
• Patients with this type experience severe physical problems while imagining that they are standing in front of many people.
• It can be overcome by taking some medications.

Acrophobia

It expresses fear of high areas such as a bridge, high floors, a mountain, or buildings with many floors.

People with this type experience headache, severe sweating, loss of consciousness, and a feeling that they are about to die

Aviophobia

It is the fear of riding a plane.

Dental phobia

• He is terrified of the dentist and his treatment.
• This type generally develops as a result of a patient having an unfortunate accident at the dentist.
• Dental phobia can be dangerous if it causes you to avoid essential dental care.

Homophobia

• It is the fear of being exposed to bleeding or wounds.
• The patient loses consciousness as soon as he puts his hand on the blood.
  • Whether it was his blood or the blood of someone else.

Nyctophobia

• It is panic situations caused by the evening and darkness.
• It usually begins at a young age.
• When the patient reaches adolescence, the fear turns into a phobia.

Side effects of intense fear and irrational phobia

• Constant, strong fear about something, whether physical or moral.
• Symptoms that occur in the body include dizziness, tremors, rapid pulse, and intestinal disturbance.
  • The feeling of not being able to breathe, and intense sweating.
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder is the patient’s inability to focus his attention on things other than the phobia.
• The need to escape from all events and stay away from them.
• Feeling constantly stressed about the occurrence of anything that the patient fears.
• The phobia causes strong fear in those affected just by thinking about the painful things they suffer from.
• Phobia is other than natural fear, which is an instinct in humans.
  • Because the phobia seeps into practical and scientific life and causes discomfort to the patient.
• Phobia patients avoid confronting their fears or face them with tension and weakness.
• The tension that the patient is unable to stop once the thing he is afraid of happens.
• The desire to get away from the cause of fears in every possible way, regardless of the results.
• Inability to do things properly when the source of fear occurs.
• The patient begins to talk about how his panic and fear are not rational and imaginary, and are excessive.
  • And he cannot control his feelings.
• Fever and panic attacks.
• Feeling pain and suffocation in the chest area.
• Abnormal sensations towards the stomach.
• Vomiting.
• Vertigo.
• Severe headache.
• Young people try to escape and hide in their father or mother or anything in front of them.
  • The father and mother notice their extreme nervousness to draw attention to their problem