Overcome Your Fears
Phobias and fears are produced by internal anxieties that become associated with particular situations. Some may seem to serve a genuine purpose, like fear of heights or fire. Mostly however, they appear to be completely irrational. But do not be fooled. All phobias have a cause and would have served a purpose at some stage in the sufferer's life otherwise they couldn't and wouldn't exist.
The most common cause is some forgotten incident (a sensitising event) from the past that provoked powerful emotions. So powerful and intense are these emotions that they become overwhelming. Some people deal with this by burying, bottling up or tucking away the incident and associated emotions out of conscious reach only to find they emerge later as phobias.
Types of Terrors
- Aerophobia: fear of flying
- Acrophobia: fear of heights
- Agoraphobia: fear of crowds and being trapped
- Arachnophobia: fear of spiders
- Claustrophobia: fear of enclosed spaces
- Emetophobia: fear of being sick
- Entomophobia: fear of insects
- Hydrophobia: fear of water
- Ophidiophobia: fear of snakes
- Pyrophobia: fear of fire
- Spheksophobia: fear of wasps
- Xenophobia: fear of strangers
Release Emotions
It is these hidden away or repressed memories and emotions that can and often will, sooner or later, create a phobia. So the phobia continues to serve as a warning of the approach of potentially similar and incidents. In therapy, we can find and release the emotions which originally caused or created the phobia. And with the release of those old, bottled-up emotions, the phobia itself just disappears.