Fear No More

How to Beat Your Phobias


For millions of phobia sufferers, science is offering better treatments – and new hope begins….
There are many types of phobias, like acrophobia (fear of height), claustrophobia (fear of enclosed spaces) and agoraphobia(a paralyzing terror of anything out-side the safety of the home) can be deadly serious.

Most psychologists assign phobias to one of three broad categories;

1. Social phobias

The sufferer feels paralyzing fear of human encounters. The treatment may involve no more than a dozen sessions of cognitive-behavioral therapy. In this therapy, patients slowly expose themselves to the circumstances that frighten them and reframe their catastrophic thinking. Often group therapy is used – the very act of gathering with other fellow sufferers can serve as a first, critical step. If this therapy doesn’t work, it may do so in combination with drugs.

2. Agoraphobias

The sufferers with panic disorders, in which the person is periodically blindsided by overwhelming fear for no apparent reason. Treatment for this kind of phobias is much the same as for social phobias; cognitive-behavioral therapy and drugs. The best therapy to beat agoraphobias is by individual therapy.

3. Specific phobias

Sufferer fear of snakes, enclosed spaces, height and the hikes. This type of phobia are the easiest to treat, partly because easy to understand. So, the best therapy to beat this kind of phobias is to get used of ‘what they fear of’ of positive mind thinking.