Zoophobia @ Animal Phobia

Hi, Good evening and Assalamualaikum.

Have you taken your dinner ?

Hahaha. Me neither.

Zoophobia.

What is this zoophobia?

Are you ever heard or think or maybe have this type of phobia? 

*Whopp* *whooopp* chill everyone, no need to scared. Hahahaha

This is just a phobia. Not an infected disease or what ever you think it is.

Everybody actually ever felt this kind of think.

Scared of height, scared of flying, scared of swimming and bla bla bla. You can list the yourself. :p

So, today I would like to tell you about this syndrome of animal phobia. *Wuuuu*

There is something that everybody should scared of.

WHAT IS ZOOPHOBIA

Zoophobia or animal phobia is a class of specific phobia to particular animals, or an irrational fear or even simply dislike of any non-human animals.

Examples of specific zoophobias would be entomophobias, such as that of bees (apiphobia). Fears of spiders (arachnophobia) and snakes (ophidiophobia) are also common. See the article at -phobia for the list of various phobias. Sigmund Freud mentioned that an animal phobia is one of the most frequent psychoneurotic diseases among children.

Zoophobia is not the sensible fear of dangerous or threatening animals, such as wild bears or venomous snakes. It is a phobia of animals that causes distress or dysfunction in the individual's everyday life.

Types of Zoophobia

Name of phobias	Fear
Agrizoophobia	Wild animals
Ailurophobia	Cats
Alektorophobia	Chickens and other fowls
Apiphobia	Bees
Arachnophobia	Spiders and other arachnids
Bovinophobia	Cattle
Chiroptophobia	Bats
Cynophobia	Dogs
Dracophobia	Dragons
Entomophobia	Insects
Equinophobia	Horses
Herpetophobia	Reptiles and amphibians
Ichthyophobia	Fish
Mottephobia	Butterflies and moths
Murophobia	Mice and rats
Myrmecophobia	Ants
Ophidiophobia	Snakes
Ornithophobia	Birds
Selachophobia	Sharks
Vermiphobia	Worms

Honestly, I'm kinda have that Ophidiophobia which is scare of snakes .Brrrrr~

Zoophobia doesn't know ages

WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS OF ZOOPHOBIA?

Animal and bird phobias can produce all the unpleasant symptoms of  'normal' extreme anxiety:

•  heart palpitations
•  feeling sick
•  chest pains
•  difficulty breathing
•  dizziness     
•  'jelly legs'
•  feeling 'unreal'
•  intense sweating
•  feeling faint    
•  dry throat
•  restricted or 'fuzzy' vision or hearing.

In severe cases, people may feel certain that they are about to die, go mad, or lose control of themselves and injure someone, or do some-thing disgusting and humiliating. Most of all they feel an overpowering urge to 'escape' from the situation they are in. They develop an acute fear of repeating these very unpleasant experiences, and this is what starts the phobia: the extreme reaction that is eased by escaping from the situation, which, in turn, proves to that part of the mind that controls anxiety (which has little real ‘sense’) that the extreme response was good and necessary. Of course, these are feelings, not reality. In practice, even the worst panic attacks do not cause any long-term ill-effects, and people simply do not die, go mad, or cause general mayhem in the course of them.

HOW CAN WE OVERCOME OUR PHOBIA?

People with phobias have, as said, become 'conditioned' to produce the fear reaction in situations that aren't really dangerous. The best way to counter this is by 'de-conditioning': training themselves to react correctly. This is done by gradual exposure to the things they fear, experiencing the fears without running away, and so 'desensitising' themselves to that lash of anxiety which insists that only flight is an option. This process needs commitment from the sufferer.  Sometimes anxiety is so high, the person is so sensitised to fear, that he or she cannot contemplate resisting it. Basically, so much energy is going in to avoiding what is seen as an insuperable problem that there is nothing left, or so the person perceives it, for trying to recover. In such a case a short course of anti-anxiety medication might be useful, perhaps a benzodiazepine. This won’t cure the phobia, but it may reduce the physical symptoms to a point where the person concerned feels that countering with desensitising techniques is, at least, feasible.

... we have to learn our irrational fears,  but we can also unlearn them ...    

The idea of desensitisation is simple, and it does not necessarily require the help of professionals; but it does call for a fair amount of courage and determination. Family and friends can help make self-treatment much easier to manage, and this is also why many people prefer to join a self-help group where they can obtain support from people who have similar problems.

Anyone who decides to try desensitisation needs to draw up a personal 'training programme'. This means working out where they are now, and deciding where they want to be at the end, and fitting as many gradual 'exposure' steps in between as they need.

That's all from me :). Good luck in overcoming your zoophobia.

Daaa~

Source : Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia