5 Types Of Phobia-Part-2

Phobia is a Greek word meaning “Fear” or “Morbid fear”. And some types of phobias are Thanatophobia, Xenophobia, Monophobia, Mysophobia, Pantophobia.

Thanatophobia-Fear Of Death

Thanatophobia is a fear of death or dying. Extrem timidness can cause Death anxiety towards a person’s attitude. The person who is perceiving themselves close to death due to death anxiety they fell “Lower ego integrity, more physical problems, and psychological problems”. This might be classified by a clinical setting by a Psychiatrist.

Thanatophobia

Types:

Predatory Death Anxiety

Predatory death anxiety it occurs to do the fear of being harmed. It starts in the “Unicellure Organisms” it has a receptor as a result it reacts to external dangers, self-protective mechanisms which increase the survival of physical and chemical forms of danger or attack. Fight-or-flight response, active efforts to out the dangerous situations, attempts to escape from the threatening situation.

Predation Or Predator

Predation Or Predator death anxiety arises individual harm another, physically similarly mentally. Unconscious guilt occurs in this type of death anxiety. This unconscious guilt leads to take self decisions and actions harmful to others by their perpetrator, and motivation.

Existential

Existential death anxiety is the knowledge that human life should end. As a result, it is the most powerful form of death anxiety. A wide range of mental mechanisms and physical actions, Denial is effected. It is a root of actions like breaking rules, boundaries, violating, directing violence against others, violating frames, manic celebrations, attempting to gain extraordinary wealth and power and more.

Xenophobia-Strangers

Xenophobia is a fear of foreigners and strangers. It means “Deep-rooted fear towards foreigners” and “fear of unfamiliar”. This phobia is of an ingroup towards an outgroup and eliminates themselves to be purity and fear of losing ethical, national or radical identity. Xenophobia can also be “Uncritical exaltation of another culture” a culture ascribed “an unreal, stereotyped and exotic quality”.

Xenophobia, a theorized definition by Andreas Wimmer, is “an element of a political struggle about the right to care the people and state and society: and the fight for collective goods of the moderated state”. This a western culture sentiment is an ancient greek of foreigners as “Barbarians”, in conclusion, they are meant to be enslaved. The worthless mankind and born for slavery, there were Macedonian and Thracians and Illyrians Greeks.

Monophobia-Alone

Monophobia is a fear of being alone, it might lead to several fears. In case the person who suffers from a phobia might afraid of a particular person, being alone at home or public and fear of leaving alone. World Mental Health Survey found that itis more in childhood and in some cases it continued. If you live in a high crime rate neighborhood this phobia may cause and if you have it before it increases.

Social Phobia or Agoraphobia is a fear of being alone in public. Challenges with self-regulation and trigger the feeling of being lonely. It may cause unintegrated traumatic memories of dangerous situations. Mostly this fear is common in childhood. The persons who suffer from this fear should do what they want so that can reduce their fear of alone. And work to self-regulate and be present in your own environment. They relax by doing exercise to lower their people who suffer from this consider Therapists to reduce their phobia and n individualized treatment plan based on their mental state and concerns.

Mysophobia

Mysophobia is a fear of contamination and germs. In other words Verminophobia, Germophobia, Germaphobia, Bacillophobia, and Bacteriophobia. The term Mysophobia a Greek word Musos ” Uncleanness” and Phobos “fear”.William was the person who coined the term. In 1879, Hammond describing a casa of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder(OCD) repeatedly washing once’s hands. Likewise, an abnormal fear of dirt and filth is Molysmophobia or Molysmophobia, Rhyphobia, and Rupophobia.

Washing hands mysophobia

The fear of bacteria and microbes are so-called as Bacillophobia and Bacteriophobia. Therefore, Mysophobia can lead to anxiety, depression or a traumatic situation. Mysophobia suffers be like hygiene, integrated into society and they use hand sanitizers, toilet seat covers, antibacterial wipes, for any action they do. So many people suffer from this phobia. That is to say, Some of the like Howard stern, Nikola Tesla, Howard Hughes, Howie Mandel, Saddam Hussein, and Donald Trump.

Trypanophobia-Fear of Needles

Trypanophobia is a fear of injecti0on or hypodermic needles. This is an external fear. This phobia happens mainly with children. Due to they cannot hold the pain or sensation of sharp things injected into their skin. Similarly, when they reach adulthood they can hold the pain. But in some cases, it continues in adulthood. In some cases, it might be extreme.

Trypanophobia injection

This phobia can be cured by treating Cognitive Behavioral Therapy(CBT), Exposure Therapy, and Medication. As a result, it may lead to stressful episodes and may have panic attacks in some cases and may not in some cases. If you are in a medical emergency or chronic condition it hurts you.

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