Fear of darkness, Achluophobia


Fears are emotions triggered by your subconscious mind in order to protect you from danger, the subconscious mind was designed for survival as a basic priority. The problem arises when that fear becomes irrational.

Fear of darkness or Achluophobia is an irrational fear of darkness, the person suffering from Achluophobia usually imagines monsters and evil things trying to harm him as soon as he stays in a dark place. The Achluophobia may impact his life to an extent that he may not sleep until the lights are turned on.(he may also switch on the television in addition to lights) .


what causes fear of darkness (Achluophobia)
Usually phobias are caused by experiencing an emotional trauma associated with the feared situation, for example in the case of Achluophobia in case someone freighted you while being in a dark place (while being a small child) Achluophobia may develop.

how to treat fear of darkness (Achluophobia)
Achluophobia is an irrational fear, after all there nothing to be feared out there, but what makes the idea of being harmed stays in the mind is that the person rarely tests the idea, he just escapes the situation and so the irrational idea remains there.

In order to deal with those irrational ideas a good choice would be exposure therapy (where you will get exposed to darkness unill you discover that there is nothing to be afriad of in there).

If you are too fearful to get directly exposed to the feared situation then systematic desensitization could be used. systematic desensitization is a method of therapy that is helpful in treating anxiety and phobias while not involving sudden direct exposure like the exposure therapy ,in systematic desensitization the fearful situation is divided into levels and each level is experienced alone until you can be relaxed while facing it , if that succeeds you should then move onto the next level and do the same until you end up relaxed in the whole situation.

ja se opasno zentam visine,ne daj boze ni sa drugog sprata da pogledam dole:)

Pa verovatno je u pitanju jedan oblik klaustrofobije ... Postajem izuzetno nervozna (hvata me panika) kada sam u tesnoj odeci koju na pr. ne mogu istog trenutka da skinem... Na pr. rolke ili komplikovane uske majice. 

Da, jednom prilikom mi se zaglavio rajfeslus blizu vrata....Poludela sam...

Kada bi mi neko vezao ruke ili bacio nekog glodara na mene...mogao bih da ga ubijem. 

duboka voda... onaj osećaj kad znam da nemam dno pod nogama, ne moram ga dodirivati, samo da znam da mogu da se uhvatim za neku čvrstu tačku...
ne smem da plivam u bazenu po sredini, samo uz ivicu

inače odlično plivam, al eto... 

ja ne mogu da piskim ako neko stoji iza mene   
to je strasan problem 

ne znam kako se taj problem zove na latinskom 

strahos pishos maskulinum

retromuskulapisofobija 

zato ti živiš sam