Top Misconceptions or Myths of Common Phobias

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There are officially 6 billion people in the world, give or take a hundred million or so. Each of those people have unique qualities about them, some are good qualities, some are bad. I am perhaps under the false impression that no one individual is precisely 100% bad nor is any one person 100% good. Granted, you have your Charles Mansons and our John Wayne Gacys and Hitlers of the world but even they had good qualities before they became completely evil. Given that great number of people, many are bound to have rational and unsubstantiated fears (i.e., arachnophobia, agoraphobia, acrophobia). Some may have been traumatized in their formative years; others are just afraid. But many of these fears are misunderstood. Therefore, I'd like to posit my Top Misconceptions or Myths of Common Phobias. The thing about the myths, though, is that there is a hint of truth in treatment in each of them, and none of them are horrible solutions on the face it. Reality, however, is often a cruel teacher.
1. Someone can just get over it. That is about as far removed from the truth as could be. A person just doesn't get over something that she may have had a fear for years. It's just unrealistic to think the fear magically disappears because you will it to go away. There is a positive mental attitude people must take in order to rid themselves of the fear but merely willing it to disappear is very farfetched.
2. Throw a person in the situation and stay with him until it's resolved. So you want to stand in a pit of vipers with a person who is terrified of snakes? This treatment has worked for some but has had disastrous consequences for others. The phobia can worsen if it's not treated carefully. And worsening a fear is certainly not making it better, which seems like an obvious deduction for most people.
3. Hypnosis is a proven method and works 100% of the time. The mental health community is still skeptical of the positive and therapeutic benefits of hypnosis. Hypnosis is still considered an alternative medicine. And there are those in the religious community also have questions about its practicality and spiritual implications (i.e., some in that community have stated that the science of hypnosis strays into the demonic world). Suffice to say, hypnosis is still not a proven treatment. While a few may have experienced great results as a result of months and months of hypnosis therapy, it's not conclusive enough to bring it to the forefront of the medical community.
As you can see, each of these three myths are slight truths, meaning that when someone prescribes the treatment, there is not even a 40% cure rate. In the case of hypnosis, the statistics are never higher than 15% cure with the distinct possibility that the patient can worsen. There are, however, effective treatments on the market. Most of the time, though, getting to the root of why someone has acrophobia (fear of heights), for instance, is in itself a partial cure. Stepping a person through to why he is fearful of looking down from on top of is a critical component in fixing the problem. And that's what we ultimately desire to do.

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Rog is a software engineer by profession and has studied www.phobiasfears.net/most-common-fears/fear-of-intimacy on the www.phobiasfears.net site that he owns in his spare time.

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