Specific Phobia in General

When I was a small child, I was terrified of all sorts of things, the worst being buzzing insects and moths. I still don't like buzzing insects, although I can cope with them, and through using (totally by accident) a 'flooding' technique to save face in front of the other kids when I was dragged out moth-catching with them, I managed to cure my terror of moths to the point where I grew to love them and still do. I'm nervous of spiders, heights and jellyfish, but I manage the fear of those things pretty well, thus am able to cope whenever confronted with them. The strange thing is, that bearing in mind during childhood I was even almost scared of my own ...  Read the complete review

Most people are afraid of something in their lives and for many people this can develop into a phobia. We've all heard of arachnaphobia or claustraphobia but have you heard of Selachophobia? This is what I have. I've not been diagnosed with it by a doctor or anything but considering my fear is pretty irrational I'm convinced that I have it. So what is selachophobia? Selachophobia is the fear of sharks. Now most sane people will be afriad of sharks on some level. You know it is a dangerous animal and that there have been attacks on humans but you dont let this fear stop you doing anything as you can rationally think about the fact that a shark ...  Read the complete review

I find this quite an awkward subject to write about, though I have suffered with arachnophobia previously to quite an extent. I wouldn't say that I was completely over the phobia though. This actually seems to be one of the most common of phobias, along with chlostrophobia and agoraphobia. It seems that most people are not afraid of smaller spiders but are scared of bigger ones, as was in my case. From my learning and interest in hypnosis, NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and the like, I discovered that this is because in our minds we define the memories of these spiders as bigger, clearer more defined images. Some phobias can also be introduced by ...  Read the complete review