Is phobia allergic?

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Phobia is a kind of neurosis mainly characterized by terror. Patients will have strong and unnecessary fear of some specific objects or situations. Phobia performance also has obvious anxiety and autonomic nervous performance, patients will take the initiative to avoid to relieve the inner uneasiness. In fact, the patients themselves know that this fear is unreasonable and unnecessary, but they just can't control themselves and affect their normal activities. Is phobia allergic? Let's talk about it

Is phobia allergic?

The patients suffering from disease phobia are neurotic and have a good command of everything. They are afraid of cancer, hepatitis, AIDS... There is a young female nurse who is worried about hepatitis because her brother died of hepatitis. She did not dare to touch the wall, and saw the spittoon, mop and so on walking around; I'm afraid that the neighbors will come to visit. After the neighbors leave, they should use disinfectant to scrub the places that people have sat or touched.

Social phobia is the main clinical symptom of phobia. In recent years, the number of patients with social phobia has increased. Patients are afraid of being noticed in public places, especially when speaking in public, writing in public, dining in the canteen and using the public toilet, they will be nervous, flustered, short of breath, sweating, and have a sense of fear that they know too much but can't control. Some patients do not dare to look at each other and always avoid others' eyes when talking with others, as if they have done something bad; Some patients are afraid of meeting people and blush at the sight of them. They are uneasy about this.

Object phobia is the main clinical symptom of phobia. This kind of patients are more common also afraid of insects, snakes, sharp objects and so on. There was a female patient who saw with her own eyes a little boy jumping and running with scissors and accidentally fell down and was stabbed in the eye. From then on, she didn't dare to touch the knife and scissors, and then she didn't even dare to enter the kitchen because there was a kitchen knife in it.

matters needing attention

Strictly speaking, there is no drug to eliminate fear, which generally has no effect on simple fear, but benzodiazepine can be used to temporarily relieve simple fear, such as flight terror. Combined with propranolol as the representative β Receptor blockers have a good effect on somatic symptoms of phobia, which can reduce or eliminate autonomic nervous reactions, such as palpitation, shortness of breath, sweating, etc., and reduce the level of alertness. SSRI, such as paroxetine and sertraline, are effective in the treatment of social anxiety disorder, but the adverse drug reactions limit their application. It has been reported that imipramine sometimes has a dramatic effect on fear attack.