What is the treatment of phobia

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Everyone has some inner fear, such as the fear of unknown things, the fear of lions, tigers and other cruel animals, which will not affect their daily life. If someone's fear of some things is beyond control, and even begins to affect their daily activities, it needs to be treated. Next, I will introduce the treatment methods of phobia.

What is the treatment of phobia

First, general psychotherapy, psychological education, psychological support, guarantee, etc. can have a better effect on the patients with mild symptoms. The purpose of treatment is to reduce the patients' expected anxiety and encourage them to re-enter the place they are afraid of.

Second: cognitive behavioral therapy, behavioral therapy is mainly used to eliminate the avoidance behavior, mainly exposure therapy. Systematic desensitization therapy or shock therapy should be used as appropriate, and the technique of reaction prevention should also be used. Such as systematic desensitization therapy or exposure therapy, including two ways of meditation exposure and on-site exposure. In severe cases, it is better to start with meditation exposure, guide patients to imagine the place or situation they are afraid of from three aspects of anxiety reaction, expected anxiety and avoidance behavior, and give relaxation training at the same time, until the tension and anxiety are eliminated. Then encourage patients to enter the scene exposure, repeated training, until satisfactory results.

Third: some anti anxiety drugs and antidepressants are used for drug treatment. Anti anxiety drugs include alprazolam, lorazepam, clonazepam, buspirone, selective 5-HT reuptake inhibitor fluoxetine hydrochloride, 5-HT and NE reuptake inhibitor venlafaxine (venlafaxine), 5-HT enhancer ceneptine, etc. Commonly used benzodiazepine drugs, can choose oral alprazolam 1. 2～2。 4mg/d。 Or buspirone 15 ~ 45mg / d.

matters needing attention

For some things that are very afraid and have a great sense of fear, what we can do is not to escape, but to actively face the problems and solve them. When phobia is very serious, first try whether you can solve it. If not, go to the hospital for active treatment and take medicine to control it. Usually you can go to more people