Trypanophobia: The Irrational Fear of Injections Kaleb Johnson IB Psychology Phobia Paper Word Count: 1565 Trypanophobia is the irrational fear of injections‚ commonly referred to as needle phobia. It is approximated that roughly 10% of all americans suffer from this particular phobia. When suffering from trypanophobia the thought of receiving medical treatment that involves injections cause extreme anxiety. Unlike most phobias trypanophobia frequently causes a drop in
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is a reflection of our worldview. An example we will talk about is fear. The fears that easily grip our hearts shows how rumor becomes active‚ then‚ due to a rumor’s characteristic of ambiguity combined with our innate curiosity‚ it quickly spreads. Rumors are an echo of our fears. They become easier to believe when it connects with our fears. A rumor is like the fertilizer for a plant- it nourishes our deep and hidden fears‚ turning what was once just a fright‚ into reality. Psychologist‚
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often experience fear without even being fully aware of it. Let’s say‚ one has a fear of heights‚ this fear can only be explained by the fear of depth‚ the act of looking down and seeing land deeper than your reach is the reason why you feel you are on a higher surface. Now the fear of height is caused (often) by the thought‚ ‘what if I fall down?’ If you fall down‚ it will either cause you injury or you will die. And so the fear of height is actually the fear of pain or death. Now fear of pain is also
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witch trials‚ the Japanese American Internment of 1942 was cause by hysteria. The hysteria was caused by fear and intimidation but regret soon followed and eventually ended the events caused by it. The Salem Witch Trials and Japanese Internment were caused by one dangerous thing: fear. Fear can cause people to not think straight and over react in serious situations. In The Crucible‚ fear caused Tituba and Abigail to blame innocent people for consorting with the devil in order to save themselves
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Courage Courage is the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty‚ danger‚ and pain without fear‚ according to a dictionary definition. Everyday many people try to have courage and everyday most of these people don’t. Having courage can be very difficult. The answer to that problem is simple. People should not think about what would happen if they act upon courage‚ but to think about what would not happen if they don’t. Also‚ courage can come in several different forms
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In his English sonnet “When I Have Fears” (pg. 17‚ Vendler)‚ John Keats attempts to put into words the human emotions felt when dealing with death. I believe that Keats wrote this poem to describe the natural order of emotions he went through while thinking of his own mortality. The tone of the sonnet takes a “roller coaster” course throughout the poem from one quatrain to the next. With careful examination one can see that Keats used the first quatrain to describe a state of utter confusion‚ the
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Course Code: OXFOR1A11 Title: Discuss the relationship between stress‚ anxiety‚ habits and phobias‚ and describe how you would treat these issues with hypnotherapy Introduction Life can be very challenging‚ we all experience different things in our lives‚ which may cause some form of discomfort or pain‚ demand our time‚ attention and cause unwanted pressure. When we cope with these demands our body has a natural process it goes through to support us‚ sometimes this
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“Deep Waters” tells us how the writer overcame his fear of water and learned swimming with sheer determination and will power. He had developed a terror of water since childhood. When he was three or four years old the writer had gone to California with his father. One day on the beach‚ the waves knocked the child down and swept over him. The child was terrified but the father who knew there was no harm laughed. The experience bred a permanent fear of water in the child’s sub-conscious mind. Still
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and murders. The Swede was already experiencing inner fears about the West and when he was invited to join a friendly card game with Johnnie and the other customers of the Blue Hotel‚ his fears were heightened. When Scully calmed the Swede’s nerves by giving him something to drink‚ the Swede undergoes a complete transformation and becomes what he considers to be a Westerner. The drinking‚ according to Weiss‚ returns the Swede to his original fears‚ but this time he isn’t afraid‚ he is "cannibalistic"
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the client to find out the maintenance process by reassessing their unhelpful perspectives and their methods of processing information. Finally‚ there is experimenting technic that test two opposite perspective‚ with one of them is challenging the fear beliefs (Salkovskis and Bass‚ 1997 cited in Westbrook‚ Kennerley and Kirk‚ 2011‚ p287). To do that‚ a therapist need not to oppose the client beliefs‚ but to suggest the possibility of different interpretation to the situation and to test them retrospectively
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