Fear and Phobia

Service Description

Resolve issues related with fear and phobia. Fear is an emotion that is experienced by almost all of us at some point in life. It is an intensely unpleasant emotion. Phobias can be associated with many different objects or situations, such as a fear of heights, flying, spiders, needles, or vomiting. Fear could be real or imaginative. We experience fear due to a threat or harm at the physical, mental, and emotional levels. We need to understand other emotions that are linked with fear, such as nervousness and anxiety. Some people perspire profusely when in fear, experience a parched throat, while others feel numb in the legs. We feel fear because of our psychological make up. The cause of fear could be real or imagined weakness, lack of confidence, poor motivation to attempt tasks that need courage. The tasks could be of the physical kind like climbing a peak or mental like fulfilling a target in the workplace or emotional such as facing conflicts, disputes in a relationship, witnessing heated arguments filled with anger and hate. Each one of us is fearful of something or the other. In other words fear is a common emotion that comes due to the inability to cope up with harm or threat real or imagined. There are times when we can deal with fear, and that experience makes us learn lessons for similar incidents in future. A counsellor can help overcome fear by identifying the triggers causing fear. Next the person will be helped to discover his/her hidden strength to confront and control fear, negative thoughts and feelings. Certain practical steps will be given to completely overcome fear permanently.