Can a GP help with phobias?
To get treatment for your phobia, usually the first place to go is your GP. They can assess you and explain what treatments are available. There are very few treatment guidelines specific to phobias.
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What is the best treatment for a phobia?
Exposure therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy are the most effective treatments. Exposure therapy focuses on changing your response to the object or situation that you fear.
Do antidepressants help with phobias?
Antidepressants (SSRIs) for Social Phobia Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, are a group of antidepressants effective for treating anxiety, social phobia, and agoraphobia. They work by changing the level of serotonin in the brain, believed to control your mood.
How do psychologists treat phobias?
Phobias are typically treated with therapy, medication, or a combination of both: Exposure therapy. During exposure therapy, which is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy, you work with a psychologist to learn how to desensitize yourself to the object or situation that you fear.
How do psychologists deal with phobias?
Can a phobia be cured?
Almost all phobias can be successfully treated and cured. Simple phobias can be treated through gradual exposure to the object, animal, place or situation that causes fear and anxiety. This is known as desensitisation or self-exposure therapy.
Does hypnotherapy work for phobias?
The good news is that hypnotherapy can cure your phobias, and help you to lead much more fulfilling lives. It’s important though to make sure that your hypnotherapist has experience and success specifically in dealing with phobias.
What happens if phobia is not treated?
If not treated, a phobia may worsen to the point where the person’s life is seriously impacted by the phobia and by attempts to avoid or hide it, resulting in problems with physical health, friends and family, failure in school, and/or lost jobs while struggling to cope.
Is it possible to cure a phobia?
Can all phobias be cured?
How many hypnotherapy sessions are needed for phobia?
Phobias can often be resolved or reduced in one or two sessions.
What doctor treats phobias?
Those who choose to use medications to treat their phobias must visit a psychiatrist or other doctor for medication management, even if they also see a therapist. In most states, psychologists are not permitted to prescribe medications, although this is slowly changing.
Is a phobia a mental illness?
Phobias are among the most common of all mental illnesses, and they are usually the most successfully treated. Phobias are divided into categories according to the cause of the reaction and avoidance. Agoraphobia is the fear of being in situations in which a person cannot get help or escape.
Does NHS offer hypnotherapy?
Hypnotherapy is not usually available on the NHS.
Can you be hypnotized out of a phobia?
Many phobias exist in our subconscious and are learned responses. This makes them particularly vulnerable to hypnotherapy. Hypnotherapy can help you unlearn the fear response, build up your exposure to the phobia and in time ease the associated anxiety.