Simple Tips to Overcome 5 Common Phobias That Ruin Your Life
Want to let these fears to rule your life?
A phobia means an extreme, sometimes irrational fear towards something.
While some phobias do not affect people’s lives adversely, some are. They cause negative impacts on their career and personal lifestyle. So those phobias need to be healed or controlled.
Here are some of such common and weird phobias you need to take care of.
01. Atychiphobia- fear of failure
Are you afraid to start a new course of study, a business, or a side hustle?
WHY! Because there’s no guaranteed success. If you fail in that thing, you’ll lose the entire favor because you are not ready for the failures.
There’s no success without failures. If you want to be successful, you need to take risks.
Treatments:
- Look at failures as a positive thing
A failure becomes positive only if you learn something new from where you failed. If not, it’s totally pathetic.
• Question yourself and analyze the failure
Why did I fail?
What can I do to overcome my failure?
What options did I have to avoid this failure?
• Try new things that are not too serious as a start. Through that, you can expose yourself to success as well as failure.
02. Acrophobia- fear of height
Do you feel like shaking or sweating when you look down from a high floor or some other higher position?
Sometimes you don’t need to look down. It happens even when you are near the edge.
You may avoid a lot of trips, hikes, or different gatherings in such places. But you don’t need to do that anymore.
Treatment:
- Exposing yourself to different levels of heights gradually and trying not to panic
• Following relaxation techniques
Regular exercises
Yoga
Meditation
03. Anthropophobia- fear of people or society
Don’t confuse this with social phobia.
In social phobia, you feel afraid when known people are around and observing you. But in anthropophobia, you feel uncomfortable regardless of the situation or the community.
They may avoid parties, social events, or even job meetings. But now it’s time to end up that love with social isolation because that only makes you more depressed and unhealthy.
Treatments:
- Gradually expose yourself to others
First, try to be with your friends.
Extend those connections to your relatives, workmates, and neighbors.
Finally, try to be friendly with any stranger you meet. A simple smile would help you at this point.
• Practice stress management techniques
Meditation
Exercises
Breathing techniques
04. Glossophobia- fear of speaking in public
Imagine you have to make a speech in a morning assembly, office meeting, or conference. Well, don’t go that far! Just imagine yourself doing a toast, roast, or an after-dinner speech.
If you start trembling, sweating, and feeling slight dizziness in front of everyone, you’ll be humiliated. But you can overcome this problem with a little dedication.
Treatment:
- Can use beta-blockers to treat the physical symptoms of the phobia
Control heart rhythm
Reduce high blood pressure
Treat angina
• Just start small and make speeches without any audience
Practice to make a speech both with and without preparation
Practice in front of a mirror, and that will help to improve your reactions while speaking
• Make a speech in front of a faithful companion or a family member
• Start to speak in front of people by gradually increasing the audience
05. Xenophobia- fear of strangers or foreigners
Are you one of the people who avoid parties, meetings, or different social gatherings because you feel uncomfortable around strangers?
How much fun and enjoyment you have missed? How the avoiding of job meetings or conferences badly affects your career life? Want to defeat this fear? Here we go!
Treatments:
- Try to build up connections with strangers
First, use social media to connect with new people. But be cautious about whom you are dealing with. Friendly chats will help you to be familiar with them.
When you got to know some of your new friends enough, you can plan to go out with them.
Cool idea! Isn’t it? You can plan on dinner outs, trips, picnics, or even an evening walk.
• Expose yourself to the world
Travel to different countries or regions.
Explore other cultures and traditions.
Try these simple tips to overcome these common but weird phobias, if you have any. The most important thing is you can practice things I mentioned above by yourself.
Give them a try, and don’t let those phobias rule your life!
