The majority of people in the world are not happy when they have to face extremely cold weather but there are some people who thoroughly fear facing the extreme cold. This fear is referred to as cryophobia and it is basically an irrational fear of extreme cold, frosty or icy conditions.
No one is certain as to how many people actually experience cryophobia since it is not necessary for everyone to live in places where it becomes ridiculously cold. In order to comprehend the fear further, you must know the symptoms that occur when the person is presented with the fear, how the diagnosis is determined and the treatments that are available.
It is very hard to pinpoint how an individual comes to fear very cold weather but some psychiatrist believe that not being able to control how cold the weather will get is why some people fear it. Some of the symptoms include a sense of panic, terror, rapid heart beat, shortness of breathing, shaking, anxiety and avoiding the extreme cold at all costs. It is easy to give the wrong diagnosis of the fear since it shares a lot of symptoms with other phobias.
Being a cryophobe takes a lot more stress and fear than just not liking the extreme cold. A person has to actually be terrified of encountering the cold and will go to extreme lengths to avoid it at all costs.
A fear of extreme cold can not be correctly diagnosed until the person is faced with what they fear and it is obvious that are truly terrified. One way to determine if a person is cryophobic is to try and get them to step into a large freezer. Just the thought of extreme cold inside of that freezer will induce a fear so great that the person will start to experience the symptoms mentioned above.
There are many treatments for phobias but so far only two of them have been proven effective. The use of introducing the fear in small increments to the patient has helped but it can take a long time to conclude the treatment. Since the patient is allowed to work at their comfort level the treatment can take months or years to complete. The most successful treatment for a phobia is Hypnotherapy. This treatment requires the patient to be unconscious while the hypnotherapist performs exercises that utilizes the subconscious of the patient to conquer their fear. - 30450
No one is certain as to how many people actually experience cryophobia since it is not necessary for everyone to live in places where it becomes ridiculously cold. In order to comprehend the fear further, you must know the symptoms that occur when the person is presented with the fear, how the diagnosis is determined and the treatments that are available.
It is very hard to pinpoint how an individual comes to fear very cold weather but some psychiatrist believe that not being able to control how cold the weather will get is why some people fear it. Some of the symptoms include a sense of panic, terror, rapid heart beat, shortness of breathing, shaking, anxiety and avoiding the extreme cold at all costs. It is easy to give the wrong diagnosis of the fear since it shares a lot of symptoms with other phobias.
Being a cryophobe takes a lot more stress and fear than just not liking the extreme cold. A person has to actually be terrified of encountering the cold and will go to extreme lengths to avoid it at all costs.
A fear of extreme cold can not be correctly diagnosed until the person is faced with what they fear and it is obvious that are truly terrified. One way to determine if a person is cryophobic is to try and get them to step into a large freezer. Just the thought of extreme cold inside of that freezer will induce a fear so great that the person will start to experience the symptoms mentioned above.
There are many treatments for phobias but so far only two of them have been proven effective. The use of introducing the fear in small increments to the patient has helped but it can take a long time to conclude the treatment. Since the patient is allowed to work at their comfort level the treatment can take months or years to complete. The most successful treatment for a phobia is Hypnotherapy. This treatment requires the patient to be unconscious while the hypnotherapist performs exercises that utilizes the subconscious of the patient to conquer their fear. - 30450
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