Every other fear, every fourth is silent about it

Half of Britons have any phobias, but just a quarter of the population is ashamed to talk about it and ask for help. To such conclusion the British researchers.

Thus, every seventh resident of Albion suffers from fear of flying or aerophobia, and about one in ten suffers from arachnophobia, or fear of spiders. 10% of Britons claim that their Phobias   developed so much that they negatively affect their love life, and 7% for a variety of fears of an obstacle in the work.

Experts in the field phobias   Nick and Eva Spykman are educating, attracting public attention to this issue. They hope that more people will speak about phobias, the less they will be ashamed of, and thus are more likely to seek help. After the shame that prevents a person to turn to specialists for the treatment of phobias, too, it is a kind of phobia.

"Many victims of phobias feel isolated, they are ashamed of their own weaknesses - say Nick and Eva. - They have to hide their own fears from others and adapt to this kind of life. People are suffering, believing that they will never overcome their most extreme phobias. But We have no doubt that these obsessions amenable to therapy. "

Modern psychiatry has accumulated over the centuries arsenal of treatment of phobias, which also includes medications and hypnosis and group sessions and individual interviews, the purpose of which is to find the original cause of education phobias (eg, certain traumatic moment in childhood) to try to overcome it. (READ MORE)

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