Allison of the bWell Clinic discussed phobias and fears with 98FM’s Inbox presenters Paul Connolly and Alison O’Reilly. The calls were coming in fast to discuss how people are affected by their fears and phobias from fear of cotton wool, fear of flying (aviatophobia) and driving, fear of the water and jellyfish, fear of being sick (emetophobia), birds (ornithophobia), traveling, dogs, childbirth and the fear of sex (coitophobia).
Allison gave some practical tips on how to begin to change how you think and feel about phobias, one of the frustrating parts of having a phobia is that the person recognizes that it is irrational so the avoidance of the situation, activity or object can make it worse because you are not really experiencing what it is like but your imagination is filling your thoughts with abject fear and this can have a very strong stress trigger response.
Some Tips to Reduce Phobias:
Breathe, all the way to your stomach, when people are scared they tend to shallow breathe, so breathe all the way into your stomach
Decide that you are in control
Move past your fear and ask yourself how do you want to be and or feel right now?
