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What Are Phobias? Why Do We Have Them?

Posted on | August 8, 2010 | No Comments

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If someone you know is terrified of mice, or perhaps spiders, you can sympathize. You yourself may not be frightened of them, but you’re probably none too keen on them, and so to your mind their fear makes sense. But how about the person who’s absolutely terrified of buttons?

Oh yes, there are people with this fear. This we find really rather astonishing.

What are phobias? Very briefly, they’re a high anxiety response to an object, situation or thought.

There are 2 types of phobia; specific and non-specific. The specific phobia is suffered by about one person out of ten. It can be absolutely anything, but triggered by a particular object or situation. The fear is intense. In truth, it’s a panic attack.

A non-specific phobia is a fear of a more generalized nature. Agoraphobia, for instance, is non-specific. The fear of open spaces, or the more modern attached meaning where the fear includes being in a crowded place.

What most non-sufferers find very difficult to understand is that the phobic’s fear is so often of a non-threatening nature. I mentioned buttons early on. Who in the world would be afraid of a button, we wonder? The point to understand, though, is that phobias have nothing whatever to do with the rational thinking part of the brain.

Understand, too, that the poor phobic can very often see the irrationality of their fear themselves. It sounds just as silly to them too, but nevertheless whatever it may be still terrifies them.

Why do we have them? We have them because a phobia is a survival mechanism, which in fact has ‘gone wrong.’ Well meaning people often try talking phobics out of their fear, but to no avail. Almost always, such an attempt will end in failure.

How do phobias happen? Really, we’re on our way back to the old amygdalae again. Unconscious learning is always happening deep in our minds in order to keep us safe. Really, it’s emotional learning. In other words, this learning isn’t of the intellectual or rational type.

When our ancestors met some fierce animal in the forest, their survival instincts would immediately kick in at optimum level, in other words, a panic attack. This is the type of learning that produces the instinctive, instantaneous kind of re-action.

Just suppose we had to rely on our thinking brain. We’d be back to where we were with the big bear! If we actually had to think consciously about what to do, the human species would have died out a long time ago.

This sort of learning takes place entirely emotionally, therefore bypassing the ‘thinking brain.’ Way back, if one of our ancestors came across a sabre toothed tiger, this instantaneous phobic response was vitally necessary for their survival.

This is Mike Bond again, hoping you’ve enjoyed this article. I do think it important to know why things happen. It can take some of the fear away. Please drop by my Website. Believe me, there’s something for everyone there, as well as 2 super free downloads. Just click http://www.wealthyoldman.com

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