Suffer panophobia It is to live, thinking only about the past, intensely, constantly and dangerous waiting for a sudden resurrection of fear episodes . When a rich imagination is involuntarily and persistently looks like a wide variety of pictures, unthinkablely drawing them unrealistic, unlikely, and often fantastically inexplicable frightening details.
To be painfully looking for signs that justify the natural manifestations of anxiety and fear, forgetting about the realities of life. How to get rid of this obsessive and uncontrolled form of anxiety - will be discussed in this article.
What it is?
The panofobia is called an incredible fear of everything in light, a variety of heterogeneous objects, events or actions, any changes in the inner state or in an external environment. Fear accompanied by a painful, absolutely unjustified expectation of the upcoming trouble. Panofobia is a state, a permanent alarm form, which is a heavy and difficult disease. The name of the disease dates back to the word "panic" and ancient Greek, mythological image of the God of Wildlife Pan. The panofobia is synonymously called Panlepsy, Pantoofobia and Omnifebia.
This disease is fully fully and for a long time experienced the famous actor and film director Woody Allen. Among his ordinary fears, fear of height, insects, closed spaces and others were listed. Allen was afraid of bright colors, elevators, peanut butter. The actor experienced fear, bathes in the soul, and the banana to breakfast should always be cut exactly at seven parts.
The obsessive forms of fear were described in ancient Greece, but the panophobia, as a separate disease, was not classified for a long time. The symptoms of this mental state were attributed to melancholy. Hippocrat counted him to fear and despondency.
At the time of the Middle Ages, people suffering from this disease were considered obsessed with the Devil, which was to be exile through sophisticated religious manipulations of that time. This state of affairs remained until the XVII century.
The first obsessive fears like a clinical disorder, described Felix Plader, and for him and Robert Barton in the famous scientific work "Anatomy of Melancholy."
In the XIX century, the disease was considered as neurosis caused by disorders of emotional, volitional and intellectual spheres . At about the same time, neurotic disorders began to distinguish from delusional, obsessive hallucinations, calling the "doubt disease". It was believed that this disorder occurs due to the dysfunction of thinking on paranoid type. An independent disease, relative to neurosis, panofobia has become in the XX century.
In 1911, Theodyul Ribo, who studied the mental deviations of people, found that a person soused PanFobiobia is unambiguously determined by the cause of fear. Funny patients with objects and events did not have clear outlines and clearly expressed external signs, they were blurred and constantly changed. At the same time, changes in the situation were aggravated by the course of the disease, since the alternation of the sources of fear was diminished.
Moreover, the implicit and the absence of external objects did not save the patient from horror, because It was disturbed by anticipation - the fear of an imaginary object turned into an obsessive expectation of an indefinite event (expectation fear). In the classifications of the ICD-10, panofobia refers to phobic diseases and is considered as a generalized alarming disorder with the main system-forming feature - "non-fixed anxiety".
It is noteworthy that in the US a panophobia qualify as a separate subspecies sluggish schizophrenia. There is a hypothesis that the panofobia is a complex of disorders in which some kind of disease is situationally dominated.
Causes of panofobia
The exact causes of the occurrence of the panophobia failed. Patients are not able to fix even approximate dates of the disease. The disease is not hereditary, at the genetic level, predispositions. Starting unexpectedly, it progresses slowly, starting with one defined phobia. Next, the number of fear objects multiplies, and new forms are added to the initial disease. To the main reasons of the disease belong:
- constancy of the intense state;
- Regular change of the situation, the impact of external factors, long-term stresses;
- loneliness;
- serious physical injuries and diseases;
- family crises, loss or grave illness of a loved one;
- Feeling hopelessness.
The starting sign of the starting disease is to transition to a negative image of thinking. The patient covers the total state of sadness, sadness and longing. If it is delayed for a long time, you should consult a doctor.
If the medical help is ignored, the symptoms of the disorder is aggravated . Professional activities The panophoba falls noticeably. Along with this, the level of self-assessment is largely reduced. Personality depreciates itself.
Personal positive experience is not taken into account, the patient is concentrated on the negative of the past, it begins to see the threats from the environment, finding enemy victims in people. Ultimately, social self-insulation comes. Sometimes it comes to the point that some patients may refuse even from their parents.
For the aggravation stage of the disease is characteristic:
- manifestations of plasticity, crying and hysteria;
- increased sweating, not caused by objective weather conditions or reinforced physical exertion;
- exacerbated reactions to the loud level of sounds (fainting, dizziness, increased pulse rhythm);
- panic attacks.
Such typical symptoms are characteristic of 95% of patients. The occurrence of individual order symptoms is not excluded.
Diagnosis of panofobia
Disorders are characterized by two main features: depersonalization and the emergence of an unlocated source of fear. No special methods for diagnosing under these signs of phobiasis do not exist. To identify them quite enough several conversations with a qualified specialist . According to the descriptions of the patients, the painting of the disorder is inherent in the expectation of horror in the future and manifestation of paralyzing fear.Often, the diagnosis of panophobia is hampered, since patients (especially representatives of a strong gender) can consider it shame for themselves and hide the disorder from the environment for a long time.
Methods of treatment
Disorder does not relate to diseases that can be overcome with medication treatment. Usually, in order to facilitate the painful condition and removal of certain acute manifestations, neuroleptic and sedative medicines are prescribed by a psychiatrist. Getting rid of panophobia - a long way, requiring deep work as a patient and a professional doctor.
The most effective in this case are:
- methods of exposition therapy, including methods of hidden sensitization and flooding techniques;
- methods of cognitive behavioral therapy;
- desensitization techniques;
- adrenaline synthesis stimulation;
- "Energy" methods.
Receptions of exposure therapy are productive, but requires a special workout. Here is extremely relevant Preparation of the patient supposedly Standing to endure your painful states without hiding the shy of its illness in front of the close environment.
Hidden sensitization It consists of several sessions, each of which includes at least three therapeutic cycles. The essence of this cycle: the attending physician introduces the patient into a state of complete relaxation, relaxation, and then simulates the occurrence of the stressful situation. When the peak of anxiety is reached in the model proposed by the doctor, the patient is again introduced into the relaxation state. In the process of alternation of states, the patient develops a trend towards the forgetting of fears.
"Flood" is called the method of complete immersion of the patient to the state of the fear, controlled by the attending physician. Purpose: lead the patient to the experience of stress and check whether these are any negative consequences for him. The technique allows you to eliminate the fear of death in heart attacks and fear of fainting. "Flood" lasts about 45 minutes, and sessions are repeated every day until the patient is cured within the framework of the program developed by the doctor.
"Flooding in imagination" (implosion) is carried out similarly to the "flood" method, but has some differences:
- Purpose: Calling the bright emotions of fear through the imagination to reduce the degree of anxiety in real life, since long-term interaction with the sources of fear reduces the level of emotional perception of the patient;
- Fear objects are being worked out in turn;
- Fixing the tendency to reduce the level of fear in the patient, the psychotherapist gives him a job tasks;
- To study situations, their various options are offered.
Within Cognitive behavioral therapy Situations are being worked out in softer forms. Patients, asking questions, suggest to analyze their thinking style, make positive adjustments in their attitude to life. The list of questions is being worked out by a psychotherapist, taking into account the individual characteristics of the patient and the characteristics of his disease.
Therapy includes 3 stages:
- work with questions and fixing the responses of the patient;
- The patient is at home answers to additional questions regarding other sources of fear;
- At the next session, the results of homework are studied, the doctor gives answers to the questions that appeared in the patient.
Desensitization with hypnosis - adjustment of the fear of fear in the aspects of its physical location. The fact is that during the panic attacks, human muscle tension is localized in certain parts of the body:
- tremor hands;
- The diaphragm is suspension of breathing, seeming difficulties of the respiratory process;
- The muscles of the "collar zone" - in stressful situations begin to decline involuntarily, the person tries to hide his head, face;
- Muscle system of vision organs - a look stops.
In the patient in a state of hypnosis and then in full consciousness , stimulate the emergence of frightening situations. Then, at the maximum levels of fear, it is recommended to perform special exercises for relaxing the corresponding muscle group in which clamps are formed.
When stimulating adrenaline formation The patient learns to overcome painful states, acting in advance fear. In some cases, when the patient's own adrenaline is lacking, the doctor resorts to hormonal injections at the moments of the appearance of stressful peaks.
Energy techniques are varieties of oriental treatment options. This includes yoga, acupuncture, meditation, various options for breathing exercises and relaxation. Such methods are used mainly as an additional toolkit, since they fully replace professional treatment are unable.
Almost all the methods of treating panofobia decide the task of taking fear, the ability to relax even in the state of fear, the instigation of the abilities and the skills to combat this unpleasant ailment.
