Can a person overcome his fear which now has turned into a phobia? Let’s talk about AquaphobiaThe first feeling a human experience in his life is fear. The child cries as he fears the surrounding because he is not...
Can a person overcome his fear which now has turned into a phobia? Let’s talk about Aquaphobia
The first feeling a human experience in his life is fear. The child cries as he fears the surrounding because he is not aware of the environment. No matter what age a person is, fear remains constant. Everybody has fear of something or the other in their lives. It is an integral part of a human’s life. And not just humans all the living creatures on this planet have this feeling of fear in them. It has a great impact on the behaviour of a person.
When this fear evolves it becomes a phobia. A word which is used to describe the advanced level of fear of a particular thing. A phobia could be from anything and also have different names. One of which is Aquaphobia- fear of water.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AQUAPHOBIA AND HYDROPHOBIA
People often assume that both Hydrophobia and Aquaphobia are the same things but this is a misconception as there is a huge difference. Hydrophobia is the advanced stage of Rabies; it is actually a symptom of a later stage where a person develops a fear of water.
While simple phobia is that the extreme worry of water wherever it’s terribly troublesome for an individual to own any management over it.
CAUSES RESPONSIBLE FOR AQUAPHOBIA
The primary reason for simple phobia is- any form of accident that is directly or indirectly associated with the person. In Indirect cases, a person himself experiences the incident as he was almost drowned but saved eventually, he fell from the boat or pushed; all these things can adversely affect a person and result in his fear.
Direct cases, a person is fearful because he has lost his loved one in an accident, where the person is drowned in front of him, this severely affects the person.
SYMPTOMS OF AQUAPHOBIA
I. The person suffering from aquaphobia avoids water bodies.
II. They easily panic and face anxiety when they are asked to go near the water bodies.
III. The patient avoids taking bath for a long period of time and develops bad hygiene.
IV. As soon as they see a water body their blood pressure shoots and their breathing becomes shallow.
HOW TO OVERCOME THE FEAR OF AQUAPHOBIA
The treatment for the simple phobia is that the desensitisation technique, this is of two types, in-vivo and virtual exposure. In this, the patient is asked to face and experience the situations which he generally avoids. Slowly and gradually the patient’s fear starts vanishing and he becomes normal. Medicines are also given to the patient.
The patient should face the water and try to enter a pool, he should feel the water and gradually move forward. Initially, he should try to go knee deep and then waist deep in a pool and when he is able to overcome his fear then he can go chest deep.
A person can also overcome his fear of water by controlling his panic attack. If an individual will have management over his anxiety then he will simply get obviate his simple phobia.
CONCLUSION
People fear from many things in life and till some extent it is good also but one should always remember that the fear should not have control over them instead they should have a control on their fear.
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