Trypophobia Treatment : Cure your fear of holes
Trypophobia is a rare and debilitating phobia that
often is unknown in people until a trigger incident occurs. For those
of you who don’t know what trypophobia is it is a debilitating fear
of holes in the skin.
To some people it is just a novelty phobia but for
others trypophobia can be a crippling and unbearablepsychological disease. Here is a
firsthand account of someone suffering from trypophobia.
In these types of instances
proper trypophobia treatment must be utilized in order to ensure the
safety of the individual suffering from trypophobia.
Trypophobia treatment has been quite effectively treated by utilizing the
benefits of behavioral therapy to target the phobia where it lies and
eradicate it from the subconscious. Behaviorists strongly believe that phobias
like trypophobia are reflexes that are conditioned to be dangerous
but are not. It is believed that the trypophobic individual’s fear of holes
in the skin stems from more dangerous and malignant skin
conditions. Although most trypophobic reactions to stimulus are often harmless
to the individual and non threatening. If an individual were exposed to such
harmless stimulus over and over again it has been proven that
their trypophobia would diminish over time. Since these types of
experiences would often be avoided by trypophobes. This type of
exposure to a stimulus that will cause trypophobia to take hold is
called exposure therapy. A special form of this type of treatment is
called flooding in which the trypophobe will be immersed in a non
threatening stimulus until the adverse reaction subsides. Some of these
trypophobic reactions are so strong that they must be imagined rather than
engaging in the stimulus in real life due to the threat of harm they
may cause to the individual.A trypophobe can also use relaxationtherapy to
systematically desensitize the trypophobia.
This trypophobia technique replaces the concept of fear with that of
relaxation and calm.
