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Psychology gives you the solution to overcome
Have fear of a dangerous situation is completely normal and a sense that we have all experienced at one time more or less intensity. It is part of human nature and should not worry too much. However, when these fears become irrational, you can generate what is known as a phobia and cause a runaway reaction.

This is what Antonio Cano, president of the Spanish Society for the Study of Anxiety and Stress (SEAS) defines as “an intense fear in the presence of a stimulus is not dangerous”, but before which a given person can to suffer a major concern even physical symptoms.

although what is a phobia can unravel many signals that depend on the person who suffers, the specialist in psychology says, “for diagnosing a phobia has to be a marked and persistent fear that is excessive or unreasonable in the presence of a stimulus “. In addition, a phobia is also characterized because “exposure to the phobic stimulus provokes intense anxiety by avoiding stops,” says Cano.

The crises that occur after meeting on the situation that generates fear can cause the affected suffer “tremors, excessive sweating, increased heart rate, muscle tension, and even cause widespread anxiety that can cause significant psychological distress” expert warns.

Normally, in the words of Antonio Cano, phobias develop “association between a state of intense anxiety and a certain stimulus occurs at that time.” That is, our brain perceives some physical symptoms that make you interpret that are in danger, which, added to an unknown situation, you may end up generating fear though the risk is not real. Therefore, the specialist explains, “the magnitude of the phobia depends on the attention it gives to such feelings.”

It appears that phobias are quite common among the adult female population. The expert says that in Spain, affecting about “2.3% of males and 6.5% of women.” In terms of typology, there are several groups that can be clearly identified as the most common. In this list, is the environmental and animal type, prompted by blood, injections or painful situations in general, or those that occur by being in certain places, such as elevators or airplanes?

Antonio Cano explained that it was “anxiety disorder less severe and more frequent of all and that usually interferes little in everyday life.” However, these people do that can be conditioned in the sense that they avoid facing what provokes a crisis, which “is a great loss of quality of life for those who have no other choice but to deal with such situations” , says the president of the SEAS.

a phobia is always trying to influence everyday life. Today we employ cognitive-behavioral techniques that can be combined, if necessary, drug therapy to relieve symptoms. For starters, it has to go to a psychologist, who will assess how it is to perform the therapy.

In the consultation, “the expert explained to the patient usually has developed the process to learn to be afraid of a stimulus in itself is not dangerous,” explains Cano. Once understood, the patient can differentiate and more adequately manage their phobia. “Then he taught cognitive restructuring techniques of knowledge,” continued the expert. The purpose of this is to try to reorder the concepts downplay what produces fear and thus reduce the reactions it provokes.

Antonio Cano adds that? Parallel taught relaxation techniques (muscular, respiratory and using imagination), the patient should practice daily at home. “This gives” reduce physiological arousal, which helps to think more coolly and reduce the fear of the phobic stimulus, “says the president of the SEAS.

Finally, the patient may be gradually exposed to all that which causes an irrational fear. This step, “involves learning contrary to past practice avoidance, which produced short-term calm, but long-term fear.” The exhibition, “causing some anxiety at first, but generates a lot of security and calm time,” Cano sentence. However, this treatment is successful; it needs proper supervision of an expert and willpower of the patient.