Phobias

A person with a strong fear of spiders, (arachnaphobia), will find that their fear has the power to dominate their thoughts and control their behaviour. They’ll be looking out for possible spider hiding places, they’ll avoid places or activities where they might come into contact with spiders, and on meeting one, their level of anxiety and stress will be way out of proportion to the possible risk of harm to themselves.

Whatever the type of phobia a person has (see the list below) they are all essentially the same thing, “a symbolic outward expression of an internal anxiety”. When we have bottled-up emotions stuck inside of us they create anxiety but, because we are not aware of these emotions’ existence as they were formed way back in our childhood, we cannot explain away this anxiety, it is a nameless, formless, timeless something inside ourselves but outside our own control.

The mind finds this difficult to deal with, so projects it outside of ourselves to a symbolic real situation or object within the environment. Once ‘out there’ we can begin to explain our fear and go about avoiding this thing (knives, needles, dogs, blood etc.) or this place  (cliffs, lifts, outside the front door) or this event (travelling, speaking at a conference, going to a strange toilet), and in this way keep us free from anxiety.

The problems come, however, when the phobia starts taking over making life difficult and unhappy.

Treating phobias

At the Malvern Hypnotherapy Clinic I use Pure Hypnoanalysis which is a really successful, effective treatment for phobias. Using  this empowering analytical therapy you can gain access to your subconscious and, through the natural process of free association, uncover these bottled-up emotions and release them once and for all. With these hidden feelings gone there is no longer any internal anxiety and no longer any phobia, nor the risk that your fears will just manifest themselves in a different way.

If you like to arrange an initial consultation to discuss your problems and the treatment in more detail call Emma on 07760 996043 or email emma@malvernhypnotherapy.com. Your call will be handled discreetly and in strictest confidence.

List of some common phobias

• Fear of being sick -- emetophobia
• Fear of spiders -- arachnophobia
• Fear of flying -- aviatophobia
• Fear of water – hydrophobia
• Fear of heights -- acrophobia
• Fear of enclosed spaces -- claustrophobia
• Fear of open spaces – agoraphobia
• Fear of being judged -- scopophobia
• Fear of darkness --nyctophobia
• Fear of dentists --odontophobia
• Fear of public speaking -- glossophobia
• Fear of needles --aichmophobia
• Fear of death or fear of dying --thanatophobia
• Fear of crowds --demophobia
• Fear of blood -- hemaphobia
• Fear of hospitals --nosocomephobia
• Fear of doctors or fear of going to the doctor -- iatrophobia
• Fear of injections --trypanophobia
• Toilet phobia, fear of going to the toilet --coprophobia
• Shy Bladder / Shy Pee - another toilet phobia