Phobia is a hypertrophied feeling of fear caused by imagined danger. A reasonable sense of fear is useful, it helps to mobilize forces in the face of a real threat. Phobias can turn life into a nightmare. A person suffering from this mental disorder cannot live a full life, as he is forced to hide from fictional danger all the time. Someone is afraid of a closed space, someone is afraid of public speaking, someone is afraid of spiders. There is also such a type of phobia - aphobophobia, in which a person is afraid of the absence of phobias.
Instructions
Step 1
Try to switch negative thoughts to positive ones when facing a source of fear. For example, with kinophobia (fear of dogs), you do not need to imagine the animal as a source of danger and think that the dog might bite. Concentrate your thoughts on the fact that the animal is sitting on a chain and cannot break.
Step 2
Fight your fear by gradually approaching it. This does not mean that with arachnophobia (fear of spiders), you should start poking around in the web with a large spider in the center on the very first day. At first, in the presence of a loved one, consider pictures with arachnids. When this is no longer terrifying, try looking at the dead spider from afar. Close the distance gradually. Over time, you will learn how to approach a living spider and may even be able to touch it. Remember that treatment with this method takes a long time, but with daily practice, after a few months, you will cope with your phobia.
Step 3
Try to distract yourself when confronted with the source of the fear. Sing, read, talk - do anything that will help you switch your thoughts and not think that there is an object or phenomenon that frightens you somewhere nearby.
Step 4
Move at the sight of the source of fear. Exercise helps burn off the excess adrenaline produced during anxiety. If you can't walk or run, squeeze and relax your muscles.
Step 5
Talk to your doctor about prescribing psychotropic medications. In half of cases, antidepressants help to cope with phobias. Tranquilizers in combination with psychotherapy give almost one hundred percent result.
