Treatment of phobia in confined space

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Confined space phobia is also known as claustrophobia, patients with the disease will be afraid of being in a closed place. So, why does this happen? What are the causes of confined space phobia? Once suffering from confined space phobia, how to treat it? Next, we will solve these problems one by one.

Treatment of phobia in confined space

First, the causes of phobia in confined space are complex, including social psychological factors, genetic and personality factors and biological factors. For example, too strict or dogmatic education, too rough or repressive environment, will make people's psychological growth single or normal psychological development distorted, it is difficult to make a correct judgment of objective things, these are the social psychological factors; Genetic and personality factors refer to hereditary fragile personality. Some people are naturally nervous and neurotic. They are most likely to have a sense of fear. After suffering from this disease, they tend to be highly introverted, stubborn, sensitive and suspicious, narrow-minded, and often show timidity, fear of things, shyness and strong dependence.

Second, full irrigation. On the basis of certain psychological counseling, the patient is suddenly placed in front of or in the place of fear, and the way of imagination is adopted, or the patient is directly brought into the situation he is most afraid of. Encourage the patient to imagine the scene that scares him most; or the psychotherapist tells the details of the situation that scares him most repeatedly, or even takes the trouble to tell the details of the situation that scares him most; or use the scene that scares the patient most by video or slide show to deepen the patient's anxiety, and at the same time, do not allow the patient to take evasive behaviors such as closing eyes, crying, blocking ears, etc.

Third: systematic desensitization. Doctors set the "ladder" fear value, and let patients gradually exposed to the fear of things before or in the place, so that the patient's senses gradually accept the stimulation, so that the degree of fear of stimulation is gradually reduced, and finally the symptoms disappear completely.

matters needing attention

Confined space phobia can be treated, and its treatment is mainly psychotherapy, supplemented by drug treatment, which needs to be based on the cooperation between patients and doctors.