It is the end of a long, rough day at the busy hospital. You get done with your last injured patient, when you hear someone with tiny indented holes all over his body say, “Can you help me?” If you would freak out and get goosebumps from seeing holes like this, you may be someone that has trypophobia, the fear of tiny clusters or holes. Trypophobia is the fear of holes. If you think you have trypophobia, the symptoms of it are goosebumps, sweating, feeling uncomfortable, and feeling your skin crawling when you see something with holes in it. Some things that trigger trypophobia are seeing honeycombs, lotus seed pods, coral, aluminum metal foam, and a cluster of eyes or holes. These triggers, make your skin crawl and other previously mentioned symptoms because of the little tiny holes in them. Actually, trypophobia could be treated. There are possible ways that trypophobic people could do in order to get rid of the condition. Some steps to overcoming your fear are first, understand your …show more content…
One of the first studies on trypophobia, published in 2013, said that the phobia may be an extension of a biological fear of harmful things. The researchers found that symptoms were triggered by high-contrast colors in a certain graphic arrangement. They argue that people affected by trypophobia were unconsciously associating harmless items, like lotus seed pods, with dangerous animals, such as the blue-ringed octopus. A study advertised in April 2017 disputes these findings. Researchers interviewed preschoolers to confirm whether the fear upon seeing an image with small holes is based on a fear of dangerous animals or a response to visual traits. Their results suggest that people who experience trypophobia don’t have a nonconscious fear of venomous creatures. Instead, the fear is triggered by the creature’s
Xenophobia derived from the Greek word for stranger, means the fear of outsiders or foreigners or of anything that is strange and/or foreign (Winters). Foreigners tend to scare people because people usually do not like change and it takes awhile to adapt to and understand how and why people are the way they are. People fear outsiders because the fear of otherization and the unknown scares people and “turns them off” from those who are different, and causes people to form stereotypes from events that have happened throughout the past.
Fear is a potent emotional response developed by the intrinsic need to learn in order for one to better their means of self-preservation. Though often overlooked, fear is a mental construct which presents great importance in understanding an individual’s thoughts and mannerisms. Children can help scientists to better recognize how these fears emerge. The early years of life can be considered the most daunting; everything in the environment surrounding a child is fairly new, strange, and unfamiliar. In the psychological community, it is widely accepted that fears are determined from two main constituents: biological and environmental factors. Both factors play an essential role in defining fear as well as the determination of what a child may
There are several causes of thalassophobia, and, unsurprisingly, social media isn’t helping. With movies like Jaws and Titanic cause people to be afraid of the great blue sea, with stories like Moby Dick and 20,000 Leagues under the Sea aren’t helping at all, but the popular media isn’t the only cause. Cases as well as reports of shark attacks, documentaries, along with sightings of colossal and, more than likely, dangerous creatures can also cause someone to have thalassophobia. A negative or traumatic event (directly or indirectly experienced), can also trigger a deep fear of the Ocean. Sometimes, parents unknowingly give inputs that might trigger thalassophobia in
I went from fear of flowers to practical mathematics, that’s crazy, but if I were afraid of a number I guess I wouldn’t have to have 19 years of math class. Tetraphobia has “Various unique and specific troubling experiences are to blame for the disorder. Tetraphobia may be the result of superstitious parenting or lack of parenting altogether. Still, like other phobias and psychological disorders, it may be concomitant with bipolar disorder(“Tetraphobia” 2015). I read this and thought about how all the causes seemed to be intriguingly different. People who feared flowers, may have had allergies; or if someone feared cheese, they may have been in a traumatic event. People with Tetraphobia, may have had parent issues that would allow them to fear numbers. But as for the symptoms it’s basically like any fear, these symptoms copy someone who would quiver over flowers perhaps. This last fear made me question the world we live in now that our children can fear something like a
Overall, phobias are a serious matter and can effect anyone. There are so many different phobias that it is likely that every person suffers from at least one in a minimal level. Anyone can have a phobia and can get one at any age. Phobias can be detected by numerous symptoms from major avoidance of that fear, dry mouth, and serious headache. Treatment for phobias should be done at the right time, but should not be held off of it will be harder to cure. Treatments can vary from medication to hypnosis. Certain treatments are not for everyone. Finding the right treatment is important to properly cure the phobia and minimize symptoms. If you suffer from a phobia, it is not impossible to get over it; all you need is a positive mind set, and proper treatment. Do not wait till fear takes over your life.
...6. Generalization from the original phobic stimulus to stimuli of a similar nature will occur; 7. Noxious experiences which occur under conditions of excessive confinement are more likely to produce phobic reactions; 8. Neutral stimuli which are associated with a noxious experience, may develop motivating properties. This acquired drive is termed the fear drive; 9. Responses (such as avoidance) which reduce the fear drive are reinforced; 10. Phobic reactions can be acquired vicariously (Rachman 31). These theories are used to identify how people obtain phobias and other situations that may occur with phobias.
Anthropophobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by an abnormal, irrational, and intense fear or dread of human companionship. Anthropophobia comes from the Greek word anthropo' meaning human' and the Greek word phobos' meaning fear' ". "Claustrophobia, an abnormal fear of being in narrow or enclosed spaces [Latin claustrum, enclosed place; see cloister + -phobia.]. Holden's case of claustrophobia deals more with "phonies" encircling him and cutting off an escape. Holden's fear stems from the idea that their influences may turn him into a "phony".
"“The 3 Types of Terror: The Gross-out: The Sight of a Severed Head Tumbling down a Flight of Stairs, It's When the Lights Go out and Something Green and Slimy Splatters against Your Arm. The Horror: The Unnatural, Spiders the Size of Bears, the Dead Waking up and Walking Around, It's When the Lights Go out and Something with Claws Grabs You by the Arm. And the Last and Worse One: Terror, When You Come Home and Notice Everything You Own Had Been Taken Away and Replaced by an Exact Substitute. It's When the Lights Go out and You Feel Something behind You, You Hear It, You Feel Its Breath against Your Ear, but When You Turn Around, There's Nothing There...”." Goodreads. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Feb. 2014.
Imagine you are sitting on your porch, and suddenly something starts moving in the grass, heading your direction. You lean forward out of curiosity. Then you see it, it stops; it appears to be staring at you. It is a disgusting, slimy-looking creature with fangs that is about to jump at you. Yes, it is a snake! You quietly sidle to the side, so it does not attack for you are afraid of its deadly venom. The feeling of faintness and dizziness overcomes you, which is a sign of anxiety. Moreover, you cry and scream hysterically after moving away from it. If you have experienced something similar, you may have a case of Ophidiophobia, the phobia or abnormal fear of snakes. Not to worry, there are cures for this phobia.
Do you have a phobia, I am writing about the phobia of gold. The scientific name is aurophobia. Aurophobia is when someone is afraid of gold. The people with aurophobia might not like it because of what it represents in the world. Or because if people think of gold they think of power and if they have gold they are powerful. That's not necessarily true. But they can’t see that.
“A few years ago a scientist specializing in phobias like Ablutophobia made an amazing discovery.
Nyctophobia is the fear of the darkness and sedatephobia is the fear of silence. After watching Chucky that fateful, horrible, night I had managed to develop both of these, but sedatephobia would only become triggered when I felt trapped and alone in the dark. Consequently, due to the fact that I had gained nyctophobia, I had slept with my parents until I was ten years of age and even then it would take hours of effort to fall asleep as the silence unnerved every cell in my body. Additionally, the porcelain figurine
There are many things that could trigger trypophobia, such as animals with spotted fur or
Does Claustrophobia cause people to deviate from confined areas? The independent variable is claustrophobia, and the dependent variable is the confined areas. Our hypothesis to this question is yes claustrophobia can be cured and reduced by cognitive behavioral therapy. The issue of claustrophobia is very important due to its impact on an individuals everyday life, since it affects a number of individuals throughout the world. A phobia is an anxiety disorder that is shown by an irrational fear of confined spaces. This phobia can cause a person to stay away form confined spaces such as a crowded store, sporting and social events, as well as elevators that could bring on this irrational fear. In society this can cause a person not to take part in certain events. This phobia can also lead to the interference with riding on public transportation such as a plane, train, bus or subway. In this our findings will be evident by the research provided. Each of these specific statements below, will help draw a conclusion about claustrophobia: 1) Fear of Restriction and Suffocation 2) The Reduction of Claustrophobia(Part 1) 3) The Reduction of Claustrophobia (Part 2) 4) Virtual Reality Treatment of Claustrophobia Claustrophobia 2 Fear of Restriction and Suffocation Claustrophobic fear is a combination of the fear of suffocation and the fear of confinement. The view on this topic is supported from the responses from a questionnaire done before, during, and after a MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan was performed. Patients who successfully completed a MRI scan found they experienced fear of confinement not suffocation. These MRI scans were done in long narrow cylindrical chambers, which are dark and restrictive as well as noisy. Although you are not in a sealed chamber, you can literally see the light at the end of the tunnel. Some other chambers that were used in other experiments were enclosed, and restrictive which leads the patient to believe that there is the possibility of suffocation. This study was performed over a three-week period on an outpatient basis at two teaching hospitals. There were seventy-eight people involved in this study, twenty-three males, mean average 51.61 years (S.D.=20.0), as well as fifty-five females, mean age 45.67 years (S.D.=15.3). They collected research data on three different occasions using the F.S.S. (fear survey ...
In class, my teacher made me get in a group and put together a survey. On the survey we could ask any questions we wanted to, as long as it pertained to fear. Within the 2 days of passing around the survey and getting people to do the survey we ended up received many results. One specific question that shocked me when I saw the answers was“What was your fear, and why?”. Many people answered this question by saying spiders, snakes, drowning, flying, etc….. When I was reading these,I was expecting a different results more a deeper fear that has affected the way you look at that specific thing in life.