PHOBIAS

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PHOBIAS

• A SHORT INTERACTIVE TRAINING INITIATIVE

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Do you know what a Phobia is?

• A strong, irrational fear of something that
  poses little or no actual threat

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How do people get them?

• There are 3 ways people develop Phobias
• Direct Experience eg., you get bitten by a dog,
  you grow a fear of dogs you fall from a horse
  and have a fear of riding again
• Other people learning from others, similar to
  parental printing eg., mum has a fear of the dark
  and she says, its dangerous to go outside alone
  at night. You never know what or who could be
  lurking out there. You grow up fearing the dark
  and the unknown it represents.

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• Sharing information-stories overheard or shared
  on scare nights with friends scary movies or
  broadcasts of actual horrific events such as the
  planes flying into the World Trade Centre. The
  Media age has brought reality and fantasy too
  close to many people, and what their eyes see,
  even though they are aware it may not be true,
  has an impact on their response to similar
  triggers in the future. The movie JAWS is an
  example of a movie that had a tremendous impact
  on people going to the beach. Can you think of
  any other movies that may affect people in a
  similar manner

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Could Phobias affect you?

• Mental Health figures indicate 1 in 4 Australians
  are affected with some kind of Phobia.
• They are the most common psychiatric illness
  amongst women and the second most common illness
  in men over the age of 25.

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5 Categories of Phobia

• Animal Phobias
• Blood/ injury/ injections Phobia
• Situational Phobia
• Environmental Phobia
• All other Phobias

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Do you have a Phobia?

• Feelings of terror, horror, panic or dread
• Rapid heartbeat, sweaty, shortness of breath,
  nausea, an urge to run away
• Fast reactions that cant be controlled, that are
  automatic and drive out all rational thought
• Recognizing that your fear goes beyond normal
  boundaries and the ACTUAL threat of danger
• Extreme aversion of object or situation

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3 Streams of Phobias

• Social ie, a fear of being embarrassed in front
  of other people eg., speaking publically
• Specific Phobia ie, an irrational fear of one
  particular object or situation eg., fear of
  flying, not enough time in the day.
• Agoraphobia ie, a fear of feeling alone in any
  place or situation, from which it would seem,
  that escape would be difficult or help
  unavailable

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Can anyone help You?

• Funnily, not many of the people suffering the
  effects of Phobias attend for treatment, unless
  their circumstances become severe and start
  affecting the way in which they lead their lives.
• When this occurs, everyone has a differing
  approach to treating phobias-

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Treatment

• Hypnosis
• Regression therapy
• Medications
• Cognative Behaviour Therapy

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Unusual phobias -

• alektorophobia An abnormal fear of chickens
  which may be a result of the fear of feathers, of
  winged creatures, or of flying animals or birds.
  Such fears may also include eggs and live or dead
  chickens. A few reasons include fears of being
  pecked, swooped upon, and because they roost
  above eye level or that they eat food from the
  ground or manure piles which apparently may
  contaminate the bird. Such fears usually involve
  relative closeness to live chickens, but usually
  don¹t include cooked chickens.
• I did not become a vegetarian for my health.I
  did it for the health of the chickens. -Isaac
  Bashevis Singer

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How dedicated!
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gamomania, gamonomania 1. A morbid desire
to get married which may include polygamy. 2. A
form of insanity characterized by extravagant or
outrageous proposals of marriage. To marry once
is a duty, twice a folly, thrice is madness.
-Dutch Proverb

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Last thought for the day

• Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by
  the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought,
  action by action. If one lets fear or hate or
  anger take possession of the mind, they become
  self-forged chains.
• Helen Gahagan Douglas