What is a Phobia?

A Phobia is an outward expression of an internal anxiety;

It is a symbolic representation of an unconscious anxiety within that person.

The most common cause is some forgotten incident (repression) from a person’s youth that provoked some overwhelming powerful emotions. Indeed so powerful that the psyche buries or bottles up the incident and puts it out of reach inside the subconscious.

It is these repressed memories and emotions that can and often will create a Phobia. So a phobia then 'warns' of something similar and thus causes anxiety for the phobic.

For instance if you were say bitten by a dog, you could well develop a fear of dogs. This fear may stop you going anywhere near dogs; this could then stop you from being bitten again.

 Some Phobias may seem to serve a genuine purpose, e.g. fear of heights, fear of fire, but mostly they appear to be irrational. But ALL Phobias do have a CAUSE.

The main difference between a fear and a phobia is in the severity of the emotional reaction; a strong dislike of say flying is a fear, where as a pathological fear of flying (intense, uncontrollable, physical fear) is a phobia.

Some people and other therapists say the best way to deal with a phobia is to ignore it, avoid it totally. This is easier said than done. The more you think about avoiding the situation where the phobia is concerned, the more the fear and anxiety, thus the worse the phobia becomes. Where some therapies claim they can rid you of a phobia in only one session, the anxiety will still be there, and unless you deal with the true cause of the phobia, the anxiety linked with it will simply attach itself to another target, i.e. a phobia of Open spaces – (Agoraphobia), may well substitute itself with a phobia of Confined spaces – (Claustrophobia), so from one extreme to the other.

Phobia sufferers know what prompts their anxiety: spiders, snakes, moths, flying, driving etc. For many panic or anxiety sufferers, however, there seems to be no specific cause; attacks can occur almost randomly - at home, at work, indoors, outdoors; or perhaps even in bed at night, when the sufferer wakes up feeling anxious but with no idea why.

Mark’s approach is that in each case there has to be a reason for the problem, something that caused it in the first place. His Analytical Therapy uses hypnosis to search out that cause, then deal with it, so that the client may return to normal living.

Phobias are almost always caused in childhood, even though the symptoms may not appear for years. The only way to CURE a phobia completely is to release the emotions that are causing it. This type of Analytical Hypnotherapy is also used to treat other psychological problems, for instance, depression, stress, anxiety and sexual problems.

For more information you can contact Mark directly on 654 202 996. Mark can also assist you in Stopping Smoking in only ONE Session, and in Weight Control. All calls are treated as confidential.

There is no reason why someone should put up with something inside of themselves but outside their own control.