Agoraphobia is a term that is used to refer to a certain type of mental disorder associated with the appearance in a person of an unconscious manifestation of a kind of protective mechanism. In a broad sense, agoraphobia is a fear of open areas, as well as places where large numbers of people gather. A panic attack can occur and disappear suddenly, intensify in stages and lead to the most unexpected consequences, up to and including death.
Agoraphobia is treated according to several methods. The key factor in this case is a direct impact on a person's consciousness in order to eliminate fears and aggressive reactions to potential stimuli. Most often, getting rid of this mental disorder is achieved by a combination of medication and traditional principles of psychiatry.
Medication for agoraphobia
Drug treatment for agoraphobia is based on a course of taking tranquilizers and antidepressants. Most drugs belonging to the category of these drugs often lead to side effects. That is why specialists in each case try to select individual programs for getting rid of a phobia.
Behavioral Impact Method
From the whole variety of psychotherapeutic methods of treating agoraphobia, experts single out the method of behavioral influence. Through the forced reproduction of situations that cause fear and panic, the patient has time to emotionally prepare for a potential stressful state. Gradually, the panic attack manifests itself to a lesser extent, and then completely ceases to remind of itself.
The key to the success of such a technique is active work with the patient's thinking and the elimination of the emergence of the belief that when visiting crowded places or being in open areas, trouble will surely happen to him. The patient's desire to return to normal life in this case is considered the key moment on which the entire further course of treatment of agoraphobia depends.
