...Aquaphobia BY, Roll No-1120 S.Y.B.B.A Aquaphobia * Aquaphobia is a persistent and abnormal fear of water. * Aquaphobia is a specific phobia that involves a level of fear that is beyond the patient's control or that may interfere with daily life. * People suffer Aquaphobia in many ways and may experience it even though they realize the water in an ocean, a river, or even a bathtub poses no imminent threat. * This anxiety commonly extends to getting wet or splashed with water when it is unexpected, or being pushed or thrown into a body of water. Causes * Psychologists indicate that Aquaphobia manifests itself in people through a combination of experiential and genetic factors * Ex-A group of swimming coaches in Singapore have been studying its children to understand Aquaphobia. They found a fear of submersing the head to be common among Aquaphobia children, including those who have little fear of proximity to water. More precisely, they found that submersion of the nose and the ears are the most feared. Symptoms of Aquaphobia * * * A non-swimmer might be afraid of deep water, people generally understand that this is a logical fear of drowning. However, phobias by definition are irrational. * Those suffering from Aquaphobia often feel anxiety around bodies of water ranging from lakes to a bathtub. Sufferers might know that drowning in their bathtub is unlikely, but they still can’t help but feel fear, anxiety or dread...
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...phobias pg 5 Coping with phobias pg 5 Bibliography pg 7 What is a phobia? The word “Phobia” comes from the Greek “phobos” meaning fear. But it is not an ordinary type of fear. A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder. It is a strong, irrational, fear of something that possess little or no actual danger. In many cases it is usually limited to one particular thing such as the fear of heights or lifts, of enclosed or open spaces, of travelling by plane, of certain animals and, in the worst of cases, of people. A phobia that has recently become very common is the fear of being “unclean” or contaminated by dirt or germs, and this leads to frequent and obsessive washing. Although the hands of a person with this phobia will get sore from repeated use of soap, he will not stop washing them. Some people have purely personal phobias. One woman was frightened that while she was driving a car, a bird would fly in front of a widescreen. Another man would never stand on a balcony fearing that at any moment it might collapse. It seems that people who do not suffer from phobias seldom realize the seriousness of this affliction and they who do not suffer from it sympathise those who do because the fears and exaggerated reactions resulting from phobias appear irrational or unreasonable to them. Here are some examples of phobias: •ACROPHOBIA - Fear of heights...
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