Most people have an irrational fear or two. Perhaps the thought of needles makes your knees go wobbly, heights may make you feel dizzy, and mice may leave you jumping for the nearest chair. For the most part these fears are minimal, and have no long term effect on day to day living. For some however, the effects of such fears can be devastating, causing tremendous anxiety and preventing the individual from living a happy existence.
"For almost 6 years, I had been working with many different therapists to overcome my childhood traumas, that have come back to haunt me in adult life. Until I met Lou, a couple of months ago I had lost hope of leading a normal life and was convinced I was going to stay a prisoner in my own home! Through working with Lou, I was able to gain my life back in a more positive way and I always felt as though I was not just another client! Thank you Lou..."
If a fear has become irrational and disabling, it has become a phobia. A phobia is an intense fear of something that, in reality, poses little or no actual danger. Common phobias and fears include closed-in places, heights, motorway driving, flying, snakes, needles, the list goes on… Often a phobia develops in childhood as a learned response from someone close to you or through a traumatic event; they can also develop in adults for the same reasons.
As a young child I used to have a regular dream in which I witnessed my Dad being killed by enormous crabs on a beach. This dream was so intense and realistic that I developed a fear of crabs! You may laugh, but once surrounded on a beach by hundreds of the little blighters, I couldn't have been further away from laughter! This stayed with me and affected my life for many years until I became a therapist and cleared the phobia myself.
But don't fret; there is hope! You can overcome phobias and fears with the right treatment and self-help strategies. Techniques such as EMDR EFT, hypnosis and CBT (ad links to these pages) all are extremely effective at eradicating Phobias and fears.
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