How to remove phobia from mind

Treatment of phobia.

Psychological treatment of phobia.

I  wrote about the causes of phobia in my previous article here

Absolutely, everyone wants to get rid of phobia. Phobia can be dangerous sometimes, so that it must be treated before it get worse. As there is no evidence in biological theories about phobia is inherited so psychological treatments are the only way to treat them.

Here are some psychological treatments.

Real life exposure

Real life exposure is one of the best treatment for phobias involving fear of animals, injections or dental work.In this treatment include a real life exposure to the phobic patient involves gradually and repeatedly exposing to the fearful object or situation in a safe and controlled way.

This process requires courage and determination. Sometimes your fear is so much extreem that you cannot imagine resisting it.

From unconscious into conscious

Phobia can be treated if phobic person's unconscious reason of phobia is brought into conscious through hypno-analysis, free association and psychoanalysis.

Unlearned the phobia

If phobia is learned by conditiong, it can be unlearned also by reinstating the fearful event in the reformulated fearless situation.

The desensitization, relaxation technique, modeling and imitation can reduce phobia.

Through medicines

There are some medicines that can help a phobic person to get rid of it

• benzodiazapines
• barbiturates
• transquillizers
• sedatives

Do not take these medicines without the permission of psychologist.

how you get phobia from your life

How you get phobia from your life

Causes of phobia

Psychological causes of phobia

In my previous article i have describe what is phobia here.

Now i am discussing about which factors might set the stage of phobia. Why does one person develop phobia.

Here are some causes/ factors that might lead you towards phobia.

Psychoanalytic theory.

A psychologist freud says that phobia occurs due to the repression of some childhood experience of any event related with the feeling of some sin, guilt or shame. It is originally related with the specific object but spreads over many similar things as a result of conditioning.

According to other psychologist monophobia and thanatophobia is the result of failure feelings in life.

Behavioural theory

Says that phobia is learned if a harmless object is conditioned or associated with the fearful event and the phobic learns to reduce his fear by avoiding the fear provoking stimuli.

Phenomenological theory

A psychologist Rogers of phenomenological theory says that a person's growth stops if he does not confront with the situation and the parents wrong interpersonal relationship with their children causes social phobia.

Cognitive theory

Says that misperception of stimuli makes a harmless object harmful in the eyes of phobic patients and the apprehension of being unable to confront the situation causes phobia.

Biological theory

Says that none of the researches have verified the hypothesis that phobia is genetic or runs in families. The causation of phobia is founded more in learning of interpersonal relationships and environment rather than the hereditary.

Many people reported that they develop a phobia after a traumatic event.

How to find an ideal teacher for your children.

What should be teacher's characteristics, personality and psychological traits.

Teacher's characteristics

Teacher plays an important role in education. He/ she not only teaches the prescribed syllabus but also shapes his/ her personality through his words and actions, beliefs and attitudes, behaviour and characters and role model.  Teachers are undoubtedly a spiritual parent to their pupils as they help their students in recognising their self-potential, in directing their behaviour to the goal achievement, help in building their social behaviour according to the moral values of the society. That's why the educational psychologist have been concerned particularly with the study of teacher's characteristics.

Personality of a teacher

As a personality is total sum of an individual's external and internal qualities, the personalty of a teacher may be explained in terms of his physical and psychological characteristics known as unique traits of his personality expressed in his individualistic behaviour patterns of thinking , feelings and acting reacting.

Physical traits in personality

Researchers show that dominative or cooperative teachers produce dominative or cooperative behaviour and attitude in their pupils. A teacher who has not solved his own conflicts and frustrations in given area cannot be of much help  and may even be harmful to pupils having conflicts in the same area. 

A teacher should have

• Sound interpersonal relationships.
• Insight into solutions of one's personal problems, and anxieties
• Ability to make a source of actions as well as being able yo employ rational thoughts processes and emotionally mature means.
• Should have sense of humour about one's work and ones's self
• Should have recognition of one's own assists and disabilities.
• Should have the capability of sharing the interests of others.

Teacher's characteristic revealed in the classroom

• Flexibility instead of rigidity
• Empathy, feeling of one's in sharing children's problems
• Experimental attitude
• Skill in asking question.
• Helpful to students in their study matters
• Appreciating
• Conversing informally

Teachers characteristics of viewing self

• Identifying with people
• Adequacy or feeling of accomplishment
• Reliance in self-concept
• Appreciating

Teacher's characteristics of viewing others

• The positive regards
• Trust
• Acceptance
• Respect

As the pupils are subject and effected by the teacher's experiences, feelings, attitude and responses, a teacher should not be

• Baised
• Over strict
• Over lenient
• Orthodox
• Boring

The other qualities, a teacher should have

• Good management
• Complete knowledge
• Leadership quality
• Dutifulness
• Motivative
• Expert
• Impartiality
• Good listening
• Same in saying and doing
• Democrative

In short expert teachers not only know the content of subject they teach, they also know how to relate this content to the world outside the class room and how to keep students involvement in guidance and counselling in learning.

Find out which phobia do you have.

What Are You Afraid of ?

Which phobia do u have ?

Phobia, what is phobia ? Everyone want to know about phobias and want to know that which phobia they have. Obviously everyone has some kind of phobia. There is always fear for something that disturb you. Phobia is not something that is related to obvious fear For example it is common to have fear of gun, fear of war, fear of death, but when your fear become intensive and worst then it become phobia. If you are phobic you will not even want to hear its name or can't even imagine that. Phobia bring you at a point where you start vomiting, faint, and screaming.

Where the word phobia came from ?

Phobia is drive from Greek word," Phobos " meaning fear. Phobos was a Greek God famous for terrifying his enemies.

Terminological meaning of phobia

Phobia is the irrational and unreal fear.

Phobia

There are many definitions about phobia.

• Phobia is a strong fear which cannot be explained by the phobic patient
• Phobia is an intense fear which is realized in the absence of real danger. The patient knows that fear is irrational but cannot control it.

What psychologist says about phobia.

Phobia inspite of being irrational is never groundless, its base can be traced in the unconscious with the use of psychological techniques. Phobia occurs more in women and in the youth.

Criteria for diagnosis of phobia 

1. Excessive, unreasonable, persistent fear triggered by objects or situations.
2. Exposure to the trigger leads to intense anxiety.
3. The person recognises that the fear is unrealistic.
4. The object or situation is avoided or endured with intense anxiety.

lets talk about the types of phobia

Phobias are classified on two types.

1. Specific phobia
2. Social phobia

Specific phobias

Are unwarranted and related to specific objects or situations.

Some of the specific phobias are known as

• Acrophobia - fear of high places
• Agorophobia - fear of open places / public places
• Algophobia - fear of pain
• Astrophobia - fear of thunder
• Claustrophobia - fear of close places
• Hematophobia - fear of blood
• Mysophobia - fear of germs
• Monophobia - fear of solitude/ loneliness
• Nystophobia - fear of darkness
• Ocholophobia - fear of crowd
• Pathophobia - fear of illness
• Nephophobia - fear of clouds
• Thanatophobuia - fear of death
• Phasmophobia - fear of devils
• Gamophobia - fear of marriage
• Lyssophobia - fear of madness
• Peniaphobia - fear of poverty
• Toxiphobia - fear of poison
• Ombrophobia - fear of rainfall
• Gynophobia - fear of female
• Hodophobia - fear of journey
• Androphobia - fear of male
• Pyrophobia - fear of fire
• Zoophobia - fear of animals
• Kleptophobia - fear of theft
• Ergasiophobia - fear of writing
• Taphephobia - fear of being buried alive
• Anglophobia - fear of England
• Musophobia - fear of mouse.
• Hellenophobia - fear of wrong scientific terms.
• Trypophobia - fear of holes

Social phobia

A social phobia is recently termed as " social anxiety disorder " is related to the presence of other people. The social phobia tries to avoid the social situations for the fear of being evaluated and expresses his embarrassment through symptoms of blushing and sweating. Panic attacks when he has to speak, eat or use public lavatory in others presence. 

Social phobias are common as 11 % in men and 15 % in women.

So which phobia do u have ?

Find out if you have any anxiety disorder ?

Anxiety and Fear

Find out if you have any anxiety disorder ?

Anxiety and fear both are emotions that everyone feel or experience in their daily lives. Both anxiety and fear plays a significant role in anxiety disorders. So its important yo understand some of the similarities and differences between these two emotions.

Anxiety 

Is defined as feeling of comprehension, excessive worry, nervousness, and its a kind of threat for future of person well being.

Fear

Is an emotional response to real or perceived threat.

Obviously, these two stats overlap, but they also differ, with fear more often associated with surges of automatic arousal necessary for fight and flight, thoughts of immediate danger, and escape behaviour, and anxiety more often associated with muscle tension and vigilance in preparation for future danger and cautions or avoidant behaviours.

Anxiety disorder differ from developmentally normative fear and anxiety by being excessive or persisting beyond developmentally appropriate periods. Individual with anxiety disorders typically overestimate the danger in situation they fear or avoid. Many anxiety disorders develop in childhood and tend to persist if not treated.

most occur more frequently in females than in males.

There are many different anxiety disorders.

• Separation anxiety disorder
• Selective mutism
• Specific phobia
• Social anxiety disorder
• Panic disorder
• Agoraphobia  ( fear of open places )
• Generalised anxiety disorder

The individual in separation anxiety disorder is fearful or anxious about the separation from attachment figures.

Selective mutism is characterised by a constant failure to speak in social situations in which there is an expectation to speak.

Individual with specific phobia are fearful or anxious about or avoidant of circumscribed objects or situations.

In social anxiety disorder the individual is fearful or anxious about or avoidant of social interactions and situations that involve the possibility of being scrutinised.

In panic disorder, the individual experience recurrent unexpected panic attacks and is persistently concerned or worried about having more panic attacks or change his or her behaviour in maladaptive ways because of panic attacks.

Individual with agoraphobia are fearful and anxious about two or more of the following situations ; using public transportation ; being in open spaces; being in enclosed places; standing in line or being in a crowd; or being outside of the home alone in other situation.

The key features of generalised anxiety disorder are persistent and excessive anxiety and worry about various domains, including work and school performance, that the individual finds difficult to control.