Phobias – A case of disorders

A child who is growing may have impressed with many things and got engaged in different situations with different patterns, but their engagements can cause a different type of phobias. While having interaction with ducks children can be a victim of anatidaephobia or while playing with clowns may become a case of clown phobia.

The impact of this PHOBIA on person’s life

While suffering from any phobia, no person can spend a normal life; acrophobia restricts a person to go and enjoy hilly areas, but in anatidaephobia, a person can cut from his outer environment. The person suffering from this fear cannot go outside even can’t go to the parks and ponds; an alienated feeling create in his mind, and he restricts himself to this own boundary.

Anatidaephobia – A phobia needs to be understood

Anatidaephobia word originates from Greek language antedate means “duck,” and phobia means fear. Anatidaephobia is a unique type of phobia in which a person always in a fear that ducks are watching at him from everywhere. This kind of phobia is very rare to infect this phobia first created by GARY LARSON in his cartoon series. There are many debates in the literature exist in which they argued that is it a real phobia or not. Anatidaephobia needs to be considering seriously as other phobias. It is a psychological disorder due to some external incident or some action.

Clown Phobia- A fear of Clown

An irrational fear that clown may harm you, whenever a child thinks about the clown he got terrified and, despite knowing that these clowns cannot do anything, but still one can get rid of this fear. This phobia is stronger than any phobia a feel of continuous fear can be harmful to the person.

Why did this happen?

In children love and care we used to arrange a clown for them to make funny things and make them happy on their birthdays and events; this type of activities become a status symbol for us nowadays. Without knowing that clowns outfit and their inhuman makeup with a red nose, long feet, and shabby and colorful costume and makeup on their face make them horrible, and when they laugh they seem character of some horrifying movies. Thinking of such patterns can be a trauma for anybody in this world. This trauma or fear can fix in the minds of some sensitive children and grown up with their age.

There were many studies on such phobias conducting in different regions of the world, in America, they have experienced that there is a strong relationship between the horrible clowns sighting and hysteria when children see these clowns in their childhood this fear grown up and become a phobia afterward.

This phobia has its deep roots in the childhood of the patient; now many studies revealed that nowadays children do not want to use clowns pictures in their hospitals décor.

In this kind of phobia, the child became scary and feel chest pain, nausea, terrified, sweetening palms, loosing of mental stability. Such type of case just like anted phobia the person suffering from this fear cannot go outside even can’t go to the parks and parties; an alienated feeling create in his mind, and he restricts himself to this own boundary.

Treatment

In this type of disorder cognitive behavioral therapy works in a positive way psychiatrist work on a child’s thinking patterns; they mold their negative emotions to the positive one. In CBT, negative thoughts being shifted towards healthier and productive approaches. The other theory named as exposure theory used to treat this disorder just like anatidaephobia doctors used to expose a patient with clowns to reduce their fear factor. In this kind of therapy person expose to his fear factor such as in this phobia patient needs to be shown pictures of the duck first he will retaliate first as this is the thing which is not acceptable to his mind, but after some time he will accept this object. Another way is used to get out of patient from this situation is known as relaxation theory.