About phobias

A phobia is an irritational fear of certain situations,objects,activities or even persons.Today there are more than 530 names of phobias on a list.
I found information about several very interesting or even silly phobias.One of them is clothing phobia,which is called vestiphobia.Like all other fears it is caused by yhe unconscious minds.Those who have this phobia probably in their past had an event linking clothing and emotional trauma.People always thought:'I fell terrible clothing like this,with these clothes i can get to the same situation,without these clothes i can fell safe...'Symptoms are quite similar to ather fears as well: breathlessness, sweating, dry mouth,inhability to speak clearly, anxiety attacks, or even fear of dying!
One more phobia which is quite popular is called brontophobia known as astrophobia or fear of lightening and thunder.It especially afects children.Those people ussualy hate summer.They feel safe when winter months are at the doorsteph.People ussualy change TV channels when it is review about weather forecast.Persons with this fear are extra vigilant.
The last phobia which is very interesting for me is ailurophobia or fear of cats.napaleon Bonapart, who was emperor of France suffered from it as well.But this fear is controversial because ones fear of real cats,but others fear not a physical contact,such as bites and scrathes,but they have a superstition about unlucky cats like black cats and so on.
Fortunately nowadays there are many ways how to deal with this problem.Psychologists can offer to you Cognitive Behavior Therapy:this consist of exposing you to the very thing you are afraid of.While this method claims success it involves a great deal of mental pain.It also require frequent therapy sessions.Another ways are Exposure therapy, talking therapy and even various courses.
It looks that everyone of us can have many fears, but we shouldn't let them to destroy our lives..