"I'm afraid…". Why is a person afraid? Is there a line between human fears? The line that separates abnormal fears and for which normal fears, observing piety, do not cross? When we are told that confined spaces are intimidating, we are not surprised. But when they say that one button, bumps and UFOs are scary …
Phobia is an irrational feeling, an inadequate state, often defying common sense. This feeling covers a person in a certain environment and can be accompanied by autonomic dysfunctions (palpitations, impaired sweating, nausea, irritable bowel syndrome). Unprocessed fears can cause neuroses, psychosis and organic diseases of the brain. Often the patient realizes the groundlessness of his fears, but he cannot control them.
More than 10 million people suffer from various types of phobias: they are afraid of natural phenomena and situations, substances and conditions, diseases and representatives of the animal world, objects and people, actions, the body and its parts, abstract concepts (soul, for example - its fear is called psychophobia) and flowers, numbers and places. According to scientists, women are subject to fears more than men. Fear is a common human emotion, which is why each of the phobias is interesting in its own way.
The inhabitants of megalopolises have more "I'm afraid …" than the inhabitants of small towns. But there are simple fears that do not interfere with living in either a big or a small city. And there are those that are associated with accompanying fears, and they can really complicate the life of their owners.
Imagine what life is like for a person suffering from chronohypochondria? Every day he is afraid to get into the past, to become infected there with an incurable disease, to die, because the time machine has broken down and he will not be able to return to the future, where they have already learned to treat the disease. It is not easy for those suffering from cybophobia - the fear of food. If such a person does not turn to a specialist, he has every chance of starving to death in peacetime. This fear can be associated with the fear of choking, poisoning, and simply swallowing food.
There are people who are pathologically afraid of knees - they suffer from genophobia. Genophobe does not bare his own knees, and the sight of others' knees is terribly unattractive and alarming for him. Classicsphobia - the fear of the classical - seems no less strange. Yes, imagine, there are those among us who are frightened by paintings of the Renaissance, Greek and Roman sculptures. A woman suffering from classicophobia has a fantasy that when she swims in the sea, Poseidon will appear from the depths. How can he be dangerous? Lost in translation? The now known metrophobia is a panic fear caused by reading or listening to poetry. I wonder if she was familiar to the contemporaries of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov? Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin?
For ambulophobes, every step is a great feat. Ambulophobia - fear of walking. People have legs that give way, they are afraid of losing the ability to stand and walk. Probably, you can turn into an ambulophobe once you have already become a coprophobe. Coprophobia is a fear of feces. Something suggests that spring is the least favorite time of the year for people with coprophobia. Indeed, it is not easy for them when the snow begins to melt, and only the ability to maneuver can save them from falling into carelessly scattered "mines".
Lahanophobes are afraid not only of the type of vegetables, fruits, berries. Their smell alone becomes the reason for autonomic dysfunctions. Sufferers of this type of phobias do not eat food if they came into contact with them or simply lay next to their "enemies". Speaking of food, it is worth mentioning arakibutyrophobes. These unfortunates are afraid that the peanut butter will stick to their palate. One such sufferer is director Woody Allen.
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Friends told me about some of their unusual phobias. Women, according to statistics, had more fears than men. But in men, phobias are more original. So, a man has an aversion to liquid egg whites. He is categorically unpleasant to see them, this feeling borders on fear. Rejection goes to the point that when he sees a liquid protein, he jerks. By the way, Alfred Hitchcock suffered from ovophobia - the creator of cult thrillers was afraid of eggs. Eggs and anything that barely resembled them disgusted him. They say that eggs were so disgusting to him that Hitchcock never tasted them in his entire life.
The woman cannot stand the spirit and bypasses the rats, from the very thought she becomes covered with goose bumps. At the same time, he considers them to be quite pretty creatures with beady eyes and pink noses, if not for their nasty tails. The mere thought of them speeds up the pace of her speech. Another lady is afraid of soft toys with batteries, namely barking and bouncing dogs with burning eyes, dancing dolls and singing and dancing pigs. At the same time, the singing monkey causes utter delight. Among her fears is gargantophobia, or the fear of Teletubbies.
A young man experiences a sense of dread of a particular attraction called Kamikaze. By the way, these fears are not groundless: the height of the slide is 15 meters, the maximum angle of inclination is 86 degrees, the length is 60 meters, and the speed of descent is more than 70 kilometers per hour. Another man has a phobia of emoticons: on mobile phones, on social networks, in magazines. The yellow smiling, writhing faces of the koloboks do not evoke positive emotions in him, but the frost that runs from them on the skin pleasantly cools in the summer heat.
And the stars are not alien to fear. For example, actor Jake Gyllenhaal is afraid of ostriches and their possible attack. Many people are familiar with the fear of birds: more often people are afraid of chickens or chickens (alektophobia), which, according to their fantasies, can also attack and peck to death. At the same time, fear of birds (ornithophobia) in general and of their individual representatives does not prevent ornithophobes from eating them.
Sarah Michelle Gellar, a vampire from the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, fears tombstones and, like Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, fears being buried alive (tafephobia). Model Tyra Banks is terrified by dolphins: in her fantasies, they surround her in the pool and start pushing, but she cannot do anything with them. Actress Christina Ricci is afraid of houseplants (botanophobia), which, in her opinion, are completely dirty. Being around houseplants, Christina begins to feel dirty.
But the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, was afraid of weapons and ferns. And if the fear of ferns was not explained by Freud, then the fear of weapons was considered a sign of delayed emotional and sexual maturation. Director Woody Allen is not only afraid of the aforementioned peanut butter, his diagnosis is panophobia. His countless neurotic fears became almost a source of inspiration for him. Allen is frightened by insects, elevators, children, cancer, heights, sunlight, bright colors, animals and baths - he prefers showers, and strictly with a drain on the side, not in the middle. Obsessive thoughts, obsessions, are accompanied by compulsions: every morning Woody Allen cuts a banana into exactly seven pieces.
TV presenter Oprah Winfrey is afraid of chewing gum (chiclephobia). Her grandmother collected chewing gum and arranged the packages in rows on the sideboard. Grandmother tried so hard that her already grown-up granddaughter still cannot look at the gum without disgust and trembling. Chewing gum is strictly prohibited in the Oprah TV studio.
If after reading this article you get nervous, start looking for fears in yourself and do not find it, you are afraid of the fear itself, relax - you have a simple phobiophobia or phobia of fears. Jokes aside, but if you really have fears that interfere with your life and disturb your peace, do not try to forget them. Work through your fears in training or in the therapist's office. Do not litter your subconscious with what you can realize, live and no longer be afraid.
