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Phobias are intense and irrational fears that create strong fear and panic in a person. They interfere with a person’s ability to socialize, work and in severe cases, live normally.

Most people experience anxiety or fear about certain events in their lives. For example, it is stressful for the majority of people to attend a job interview or to be assessed for performance at work. Phobias, however, are irrational fears that can prevent people from living normal lives.

Phobias belong to a spectrum of mental problems known as “anxiety disorders” and can be separated into three basic types: specific phobias, social phobia and agoraphobia. Specific phobias revolve around the fear of a specific object or situation.

Common specific phobias include fear of flying, and fear of snakes and spiders. If the specific phobia is not encountered often in a person’s life, it will probably not be very disruptive. However, if it is a common occurrence then the afflicted person may well be living in an unhealthy mental and emotional state and not be functioning at their best.

Social phobias include being afraid of being watched and evaluated by others when in public, fear of public speaking and stage fright. People experiencing social phobias are more than just uncomfortable or worried, they are intensely anxious.

Agoraphobia is a fear of being trapped and of experiencing a panic attack in a public place. A panic attack is usually the20trigger for agoraphobia. When many people experience a panic attack away from home, they fear the experience occurring again and therefore desire to avoid public places. For many people, this means never leaving home.

The symptoms of phobias include a sense of terror and often impending disaster, increased heart rate, rapid breathing, and sweating palms. These symptoms can be triggered by simply expecting the event or circumstance that triggers the phobia. For example, people who have a fear of flying may experience anxiety symptoms for days before the event.

Phobias can have a strong hold on individuals. Traditional methods of dealing with phobias include the use of medications to block feelings of anxiety and panic, and cognitive-behavioral therapy which helps people to retrain their thoughts and responses. However, many people have had great success in overcoming phobias through the use of hypnosis. Hypnosis is used to treat phobias by reprogramming thinking patterns. Hypnosis is able to by-pass the conscious mind with its tendency to resist change. The suggestions target the subconscious mind and are readily accepted.

The fears which cause phobias reside in the subconscious mind. The original cause of the fear may have been valid but is no longer real. Hypnosis can reach this part of the mind and give it suggestions to ease the anxiety and convince it that there is no longer any valid reason to retain these fears.

Common phobias aided (and even cured) by hypnosis include:

Fear of flying and other forms of travel.
• Fear of heights.
• Fear of childbirth.
• Fear of animals (usually a specific type).
• Fear of insects (spiders are very common).
• Fear of performing.
• Stage fright.
• Claustrophobia and agoraphobia.
• Fear of nightmares (can cause insomnia).
• Fear of the dark.
• Fear of doctors and dentists.
• Fear of exams.

Unlike medication based treatment, hypnosis has no negative side-effects. Even cognitive-behavioral therapies can have negative side-effects because some of them can trigger severe panic in order to desensitize a person. This is extremely traumatic for many people. Hypnosis, on the other hand is very relaxing and soothes the nerves. It calms anxiety and gently gives suggestions directly to the subconscious mind. As such it offers benefits even beyond the purpose of eliminating phobias.

Find a  list of common phobias to the right of this page.

List of phobias

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Fears and Phobias

Agoraphobia- Spaces, open

Claustrophobia- Spaces, confined

Disposaphobia- Fear of getting rid of stuff- 5% of the population suffer from this pack rat phobia

Fear of Anesthesia

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Fear of Balloons – “Ligyrophobia”

Fear of Bees or Wasps- “Apiphobia or Melissophobia”

Fear of Being Alone

Fear of Birds- “Ornithophobia”

Fear of Blood- “Hemophobia, Hemaphobia or Hematophobia”

Fear of Bodily Functions- Body odors- “Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia”—Bowel movements: painful- “Defecaloesiophobia”

Fear of Buttons — “Koumpounophobia”

Fear of Cats- “Aclurophobia, Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Felinophobia, Galeophobia, or Gatophobia”

Fear of Childbirth- “Maleusiophobia, Tocophobia, Parturiphobia, or Lockiophobia”

Fear of Commitment

Fear of Criticism- “Enissophobia”

Fear of Death- Death or dying- “Thanatophobia—-Death or dead things- Necrophobia”

Fear of Dental Treatment- Dental surgery-Dental treatments  “Odontophobia”

Fear of Doctors and Dentists- “Dentophobia”

Fear of Dogs- Dogs or rabies- “Cynophobia”

Fear of Driving- Car or vehicle, riding in- “Amaxophobia”

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Fear of Eye Drops- Medicine, taking; or drugs- “Pharmacophobia”–Medicines, mercurial- “Hydrargyophobia”-Medicine, prescribing by a doctor- “Opiophobia”

Fear of Failure- “Atychiphobia or Kakorrhaphiophobia”

Fear of Fainting- “Asthenophobia”

Fear of Fear- being preferred by a phobic- “Counterphobia”

Fear of Flying- “Aviophobia or Aviatophobia or Pteromerhanophobia”

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Fear of Frogs- “Batrachophobia”

Fear of Furry Animals-Fur or skins of animals “Doraphobia”

Fear of Germs- Germs or dirt, being contaminated with- “Misophobia or mysophobia”– Germs- “Verminophobia”

Fear of Ghosts- Ghosts or specters- “Spectrophobia”

Fear of Growing Old- “Gerascophobia or Gerontophobia”

Fear of Heights or Bridges- Bridges or of crossing them- “Gephyrophobia”

Fear of Injections- Fear of shots or injections “Trypanophobia”

Fear of Insects- “Acarophobia or Entomophobia or Insectophobia”- Fear of insect stings- ” Cnidophobia”

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Fear of Intimacy- Love, sexual love- “Erotophobia”–Love play- “Malaxophobia or Sarmassophobia”—Love, falling or being in- “Philophobia”

Fear of Lizards- Herpetophobia

Fear of Loud Noises- “Ligyrophobia”—Noises or voices, speaking aloud, or telephones- “Phonophobia”

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Fear of Moths- “Mottephobia”

Fear of Motorway Driving- Travel or road travel- “Hodophobia”

Fear of MRI Scan- “Mechanophobia”

Fear of Needles (for Children)- “Aichmophobia or Belonephobia”

Fear of Pregnancy- “Tocophobia”

Fear of Public Toilets- “Parauresis”

Fear of Rats and Mice- “Zemmiphobia”

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Fear of Snakes- “Ophidiophobia or ophiophobia”

Fear of Spiders- “Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia”

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Fear of Talking on the Telephone- Telephones, noises or voices, or speaking aloud- “Phonophobia”–Telephones- “Telephonophobia”

Fear of Technology- “Technophobia”

Fear of the Dark- Dark or night- “Nyctophobia”–Dark place, being in- “Lygophobia”–Darkness- “Achluophobia or Myctophobia, or Scotophobia”

Fear of Thunderstorms- “Ceraunophobia” –Thunder and lightning- “Astraphobia, Astrapophobia, Brontophobia or Keraunophobia”

Fear of Travel- Trains, railroads or train travel- “Siderodromophobia” —Travel or road travel- “Hodophobia”

Fear of Viral Contamination- Contamination, dirt or infection- “Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia”–Contamination with dirt or germs- “Misophobia or Mysophobia”

Fear of Vomiting- “Emetophobia”

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Fear of Water- “Hydrophobia”

Homophobia-  Fear of Gays, lesbians, homosexuals

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School Phobia- School, going to school- “Didaskaleinophobia”–School- “Scolionophobia”

Sea Sickness- “Thalassophobia”

Social Phobia- Social (fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations)- Social Phobia.—Society or people in general- “Anthropophobia or Sociophobia”

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Loneliness- Loneliness or of being oneself- “Eremophobia or Eremiphobia”

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