Rapid Resolution Therapy and Specific Phobias – New Responses to Big Fears of Little Things
A phobia (from the Greek word phóbos, “fear”), or morbid fear, is an irrational, intense, and persistent fear of certain situations, activities, things, or people that pose little or no real danger. The main symptom of this anxiety disorder is the excessive and unreasonable desire to avoid the feared subject. When the fear is beyond one’s control, or if the fear interferes with daily life, then a diagnosis may be made under one of the anxiety disorders. Some of the more common specific phobias center around:
o Closed places
or Heights
or escalators
or Tunnel
or highway driving
or water
orfly
oDogs
or bloody lesions
Such phobias are not just extreme fear; they are irrational fear of a particular thing. You may be able to ski the highest mountains in the world with ease, but you can’t climb above the fifth floor of an office building. Although adults with phobias realize that these fears are irrational, they often find that facing, or even thinking about facing, the feared object or situation triggers a panic attack or severe anxiety.
Specific phobias affect approximately 19.2 million adult Americans and are twice as common in women as in men. They usually appear in childhood or adolescence and tend to persist into adulthood. The causes of specific phobias are not well understood, but there is some evidence that the tendency to develop them may be hereditary.
It is generally accepted that phobias arise from a combination of external events and internal predispositions. Many specific phobias can be traced back to a specific triggering event, usually a traumatic experience at a young age. Social phobias and agoraphobia have more complex causes that are not fully understood at this time. Heredity, genetics, and brain chemistry, combined with life experiences, are believed to play a role in the development of anxiety disorders, phobias, and panic attacks.
If the feared situation or feared object is easy to avoid, people with specific phobias may not seek help; but if the avoidance interferes with their careers or personal life, it can become disabling and treatment is usually sought.
Specific phobias respond very well to carefully targeted psychotherapy. Most psychologists and psychiatrists classify most phobias into three categories:
o Social phobia, also known as social anxiety disorder: fears involving other people or social situations, such as performance anxiety or fears of being embarrassed by scrutiny from others, such as eating in public. Social phobia can be subdivided into:
o Generalized social phobia
o Specific social phobia, which are cases of anxiety that are triggered only in specific situations. The symptoms can extend to psychosomatic manifestations of physical problems. For example, paruresis patients find it difficult or impossible to urinate in reduced levels of privacy. This goes well beyond the mother’s preference: when the condition is triggered, the person is physically unable to empty the bladder.
o Specific Phobias: Fear of a single specific panic trigger, such as spiders, snakes, dogs, elevators, water, waves, flying, balloons, contracting a specific disease, etc.
o Agoraphobia: a pervasive fear of leaving home or a small familiar ‘safe’ area, and possible panic attacks that may follow.
Some therapists use virtual reality or imagery to desensitize patients to the feared entity. These are parts of systematic desensitization therapy.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) may be beneficial. Cognitive behavioral therapy allows the patient to understand the cycle of negative thought patterns and ways to change these thought patterns. CBT can be done in a group setting. Gradual desensitization therapy and CBT are usually successful, provided the patient is willing to put up with some discomfort and continuous effort over a long period of time.
Anti-anxiety or depression medications can help in many cases. Benzodiazepines may be prescribed for short-term use ONLY. Benzodiazepines are highly addictive!
Rapid Resolution Therapy is a new and innovative method to release all types of anxiety quickly, painlessly and permanently. Rapid Resolution Therapy removes unconscious conflicts that cause anxiety and block desired conscious change. Self-defeating and self-destructive behavior immediately disappears. Your mind becomes clearer, more focused and you feel a new freedom free from anxiety!
Anxiety, panic, and phobias often appear for no apparent reason. Your mind unconsciously (and totally out of your awareness) perceives some threats as uncontrollable or unavoidable, which triggers the feeling of anxiety.
Many times, people who have suffered from anxiety and phobias have had trauma in the past. With Rapid Resolution Therapy, you no longer need to relive the past or feel the pain of any of these traumatic events. Rapid Resolution Therapy helps you recover painlessly from all past traumas.
Rapid Resolution Therapy clients fully and completely realize in every facet of their minds that these experiences are over and gone. Anxiety and the anger issue that sometimes accompanies anxiety is now replaced with energy and peace. Old self-destructive behavior patterns are dissolved forever!
How many different phobias are there? Here’s a sample:
Acrophobia
or Aerophobia
or Agoraphobia
or Agraphobia
or Aichmophobia
or Ailurophobia
or Algophobia
or Anthropophobia
or Aphephobia
or Apiphobia
or aquaphobia
or Arachnophobia
or Astraphobia
or Autophobia
or Aviatophobia
or Aviophobia
or Batrachophobia
or Bathophobia
or biphobia
oCainophobia
oCainotophobia
or Cenophobia
or centophobia
or Chemophobia
or Chiroptophobia
o Claustrophobia
or Contraltophobia
or Coulrophobia
or Cynophobia
or Dentophobia
or Eisoptrophobia
or Emetophobia
or Entomophobia
or ephebiphobia
or Equinophobia
or Ergophobia
or Erotophobia
or Genophobia
or gefirophobia
or Gerascophobia
or Gerontophobia
or Glossophobia
or Gymnophobia
or Gynophobia
or Hamaxophobia
or Haphophobia
or hapnophobia
or haptephobia
oHaptophobia
or Heliophobia
or Hemophobia
or heterophobia
or Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
or Hoplophobia
or Ichthyophobia
o Insectophobia
or Keraunophobia
or Cymophobia
or Lipophobia
or Megalophobia
or Monophobia
or Murophobia
or Musophobia
or Mysophobia
or Necrophobia
or Neophobia
or Nomophobia
or Nosophobia
or nyctophobia
oOchophobia
o Odontophobia
or Ophidiophobia
or Ornithophobia
or Osmophobia
or panphobia
or Paraskavedekatriaphobia
or Pediaphobia
or Pediophobia
or Pedophobia
or Phagophobia
or Phasmophobia
o Phonophobia
or Photophobia
or psychophobia
or Pteromechanophobia
or Radiophobia
or ranidaphobia
or somniphobia
or Scopophobia
or Scotophobia
or Spectrophobia
or Suriphobia
oTaphophobia
or Technophobia
or Tetraphobia
or thalassophobia
or Tocophobia
or Tonitrophobia
or Trichophobia
or Triskaidekaphobia
or Trypanophobia
xenophobia
or zoophobia