Danger of disease
Being afraid of something or someone is a normal property of the psyche. But, if this feeling takes on a pathological character, then it can lead to various problems.
Important! The development of the disease can be gradual and unnoticed.
Worry and worry make it difficult to lead a normal life. In severe cases, problems develop with the nervous and cardiovascular systems. Constant neuroses will lead to an early heart attack.
In severe cases, the phobia may be accompanied by obsessive-compulsive disorder. With it, a person becomes fixated on performing rituals that should protect him from harm.
"Don't call me for trifles"
Giniyat is 54 years old. It would seem that what could cause fear in a man in the prime of his life?! But our hero suffers from telephone phobia - this is the fear of telephone conversations and calls. He believes that all bad news is communicated over the phone.
“At the time when mobile phones were just coming into use, fear was not serious and did not cause inconvenience. I perceived cell phones as something new and interesting. And now the mere sight of a cell phone spoils my mood; I want to quickly remove it from my sight.
When my daughter became ill, underwent major surgery, and her life literally hung in the balance, the fear of a phone call intensified. The body reacted to each call with stress, the body began to pound, as if in a chill, and the palms began to sweat. The illness and difficulties are far behind, but the fear still doesn’t want to go away. Even now I don’t like answering calls; the phone is almost always in silent mode. Later, when I see the missed calls, I pluck up the courage to call back myself.
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All my friends and family are aware of my phobia. Everyone is warned that they should not call me for trifles, and if you need something, I will call myself.
I don’t try to somehow fight my fear, I accept it as it is. I don't think doctors can help me in any way. It seems to me that medications are powerless in such situations, and they can also harm the body,” said Giniyat Abiy.
Types of phobias
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Each pathological fear may have its own characteristics. Not everyone knows about the fear of mice, what this phobia is called. Psychologists call this disorder musophobia. With it, a person experiences fear only of mice, both wild and ornamental.
Sometimes the fear of rats is called suriphobia. In this case, a person is afraid only of large rodents; the rest do not cause him concern. Any phobia can manifest itself in varying degrees. Some people find it unpleasant to see live animals, while others find it unpleasant even to see pictures or stills from films.
You may come across the name zemmiphobia. The disorder is characterized not only by fear of mice, but also of any rodents: voles, moles and others.
The fear of bats is called chiroptophobia. This condition is characterized by aversion to only one type of animal. A person can perceive the rest normally.
Phobias are often combined with each other. Therefore, you should not neglect their development, as they can lead to serious health problems.
Fear of mice and rats: what is the name of the phobia, how to stop being afraid
There are a huge number of phobias in the world.
This term refers to the pathological reaction of the body to some object or stimulus. The fear of mice is called suriphobia or musophobia. This is the most common phobia on earth. It is believed that women are more susceptible to these fears than men. Although scientists have proven the opposite. Men are afraid of mice and rats just like women, but the stereotypes that have developed in society do not allow men to show their fear.
Musophobia - fear of mice
Rat phobia has another name - zemmiphobia, and it has nothing in common with the fear of mice. Zemmiphobia includes fear of a large rodent, such as a mole. The animal does not pose a threat to the person himself, but can harm his crop.
Fear of mice and rats at the same time can be classified as zoophobia.
How to remove rodents
You can get rid of small pests in your home in a variety of ways that are safe for humans and pets. The most effective in this case will be:
Pets - cats and dogs. It should be noted that only those species of these animals that prey on rodents repel pests. Mechanical traps. They can be purchased at hardware stores or made independently using available materials. Folk remedies. This category includes special mixtures that are used to fill rodent burrows, plants that repel pests, as well as household chemicals that are harmless to humans.
These products are the most effective, which is why it is so important to know which plants and household chemicals are most dangerous for rodents.
Also, rodents, like many household pests, are influenced by some other environmental factors: sudden switching on of lights, loud sounds, and ultrasound. All of them make the environment in the house unsuitable for such populations and force mice to leave the home.
In order to rid your home of pests, you can use one product or several at once. So that you can do this without any difficulties, let's look at all the methods of controlling rodents in more detail.
Symptoms of manifestation
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The fear of rats and mice does not immediately turn into a phobia. The first signs appear upon direct contact with rodents. At the sight of them, a person becomes stiff, numb and experiences a panic attack.
Even if the mouse is sitting and has no intention of coming, it still causes fear
If a person encounters a rodent in the house, then he begins to constantly look for traces of the animal, set traps and be afraid to be in a dark room.
Important! In some cases, a person begins to feel that there is a persistent smell of a mouse in the room.
Any rustle will provoke anxiety. Even having a cat at home will not calm the patient. The peculiarity of the fear of rodents is that a person cannot rationally explain his fear.
In psychology, there are two groups of symptoms: behavioral and physiological. The first is characterized by a feeling of anxiety, an obsessive desire to look for a rodent, etc.
The second is characterized by manifestations from the body:
- Cardiopalmus;
- Increased sweating;
- Nausea;
- Vomit;
- Dizziness;
- Headache and others.
As your fear of rodents progresses, your symptoms will intensify. In severe cases, it can lead to complete inability to lead a normal life.
Musophobia can be called a modern disease, since due to the abundance of landfills, rats and mice live quietly in the city. You can encounter them every day.
A medical approach to fear
Scientists say that any phobia can be either an independent disease or accompany another psychological disorder or disease. These include phobias based on schizophrenia or neuroses. Each case must be predicted individually. It all depends on the course of the disease that provoked this or that phobia. Over time, fear may disappear completely or be compensated by another condition. But there are often cases when the phobia progresses in its development.
Phobias that arise on the basis of schizophrenic conditions progress. To treat advanced cases, psychotherapy and various techniques based on it are used. These include rational and cognitive behavioral therapies. Some psychotherapists have noted the successful use of neurolinguistic programming as a treatment. As for the medicinal effect, triazole tranquilizers, antidepressants, and beta receptor blockers are used. The type of treatment and dose are prescribed exclusively by the psychotherapist.
Social phobias
Social phobias include a great variety of fears. One of the leading positions is occupied by enissophobia - fear of criticism, fear of evaluation. This phobia has two completely opposite forms:
fear of a bad assessment of yourself or your actions from others. This is nothing more than shyness. It expresses fear of social relationships, but the core is precisely evaluation from other people. Concerns will be caused by all individuals from whom words, actions, and emotions may be assessed. A person subject to fear will avoid contacts in every possible way and certainly not initiate them; fear of lack of proper attention from others. The appearance of such fear is typical for people with demonstrative personality traits
They are characterized by intense emotional distress when there is not enough attention and interest from other individuals. It does not matter at all what the reason is for focusing attention (good or bad) - a person needs to be in the center of interest of the environment. To be unnoticed for such a person is collapse, oblivion.
One way or another, it all comes down to fear regarding attention to one’s personality. Fear will lead to a person avoiding any social contact, even to the point of hysteria. The root of enissophobia can be considered chronic low self-esteem, painful or complete rejection of any criticism addressed to oneself.
Symptoms of fear
The phobia finds its expression in somatic states, and sometimes diametrically different ones. Among the most common symptoms are the following:
- redness of the skin on the face, hands;
- tremor of the limbs;
- nausea and vomiting;
- urge to urinate.
Reasons for appearance
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It is normal to experience unpleasant feelings when you see rodents. They are carriers of various diseases. Therefore, subconsciously a person tries to avoid meeting them.
Important! A phobia often develops after a traumatic situation.
If a child is attacked by a rat or mouse, he will begin to fear history repeating itself. Sometimes children hear a squeak in the dark and they turn on the light. In this case, they may see rodents in the room or on the crib. This picture can be very scary.
The phobia is not always observed from childhood. It can also appear in an adult. For example, a woman wants to take some grains from a bag of cereal and stumbles upon the carcass of a dead mouse or sees an animal in the kitchen.
Sometimes rats attack people, this can happen in a summer cottage. A person may not notice the animal and step on it. After such a collision, pathological fear appears.
In urban environments, there is also a chance of encountering rodents. They live near garbage dumps, in landfills and calmly walk from house to house. Few people enjoy such a neighborhood.
Impressionable individuals who are prone to hypochondria may take information about infectious diseases too seriously. Rodents carry many types of them: from rabies to parasites. Therefore, any thought about meeting them causes panic.
Both women and men are susceptible to phobias
Pathological fear of mice can develop against the background of other problems. With a high level of anxiety, every little thing is perceived sharply and negatively.
Signs of a sick person
Any fear arises in a special way, and its sensations are not similar to the feelings of another person. One person will run away in hysteria as far as possible, at one glance at the animal, and the other will stand like a statue, never moving. They are united by common manifestations of phobia:
Musophobes understand the name of the fear of mice and the absurdity of their reaction to the most harmless rodent. But few people are able to take control of themselves, and they fall into a prolonged depression from the additional fear of disgracing themselves in front of their close circle. If no one helps them, then the level of pathological panic will increase, acquiring new deceptive fears.
In severe cases, the patient ceases to understand where reality surrounds him, and from what moment harmless fantasies begin. For fear of being attacked by rodents, they can block all the openings that can be found in the house so that mice cannot get inside and find it.
How to deal with the problem
Treatment of fear consists of two components: medication and psychotherapy. Pills, tranquilizers and antidepressants are prescribed only in severe cases when physical symptoms need to be relieved.
With the help of medications you can reduce the level of anxiety, worry, and worry. A person will not even notice how he will cease to be afraid of every rustle and vague shadow on the floor. In this state it will be easier for him to undergo psychotherapy.
The specialist helps the patient analyze his life, find the reason for the development of the phobia and get rid of it. With this you can radically change your attitude towards the situation.
Important! Psychotherapy can take several months; it is not a quick fix.
In some cases, a specialist can gradually accustom a person to the subject of fear. Show videos or pictures of mice. Gradually, the contact time increases, and the patient begins to calmly perceive rodents.
Self help
Sometimes a person with musophobia has to use meditation or auto-training. These two methods help reduce the level of panic, calm down, and collect your thoughts.
Techniques like these are needed for quick help.
To relieve stress, you can watch cartoons with mice or funny videos. The main thing is to understand that rodents are not dangerous and can be quite cute and funny. Many owners of such animals make videos with tricks and post them on the Internet.
Musophobia is called one of the most common problems. Due to the large number of rodents in cities, people are increasingly encountering them. All this leads to all sorts of problems.
Musophobia and zemmiphobia - what are the differences?
Before taking a closer look at the causes and manifestations of the disorder, you should understand the terminology. In general, the difference is not fundamental and is of interest to the psychotherapist rather than to the patient.
So, musophobia or musophobia is the fear of mice. There is only one object of fear - an ordinary field mouse. But zemmiphobia is a more complex phobia, the objects of which are all small rodents, including shrews and moles.
At the same time, zemmiphobia can extend to only two species of animals. So, a person who is afraid of both rats and mice is a zemmiphobe. Fear of moles and rats is also zemmiphobia, as is the fear only of moles, because literally translated this phobia means fear of a large digger, which is a mole. If a person is only afraid of moles and small shrew mice, the name of the phobia does not change either. But musophobia only means fear of mice, because “mus” is translated from Latin as “mouse”.
A new type of phobia - covidophobia
Anyone can one day encounter a phobia, says Dinar Gallyamov:
“Often, the cause of phobias lies in negative experiences in the past; gradually this experience develops into constant fear and, like a chronic disease, becomes a lifelong companion of a person.
It is simply unrealistic to list the types of phobias. Any phenomenon or object can cause a phobia. Today, the most common fears in the world are the fear of flying (aerophobia), closed spaces (claustrophobia), heights (acrophobia), death (thanatophobia), cancer (cancerophobia), darkness or night (achluophobia), spiders (arachnophobia) and mice ( musophobia).
In any phobia there is an element that a person cannot control. I can’t control the plane’s safe landing on the ground, so I’m anxious and scared. If we could overcome the desire to control everything, then we could independently, without the help of a psychologist, get rid of our fears and phobias.
There is now a lot of information about cancer that is freely available on the Internet. A person understands that everyone has a chance of getting sick and that the disease spares no one. The phobia is also strengthened by the fact that oncology is not completely curable and in the final stages the chance of survival is much less.
As new trends appear in our lives and technologies develop, new types of psychological deviations and phobias arise in humanity. During epidemics, we hear about autophobia (fear of being alone) or homophobia (fear of being without mobile communications). People are in self-isolation and every day they watch and hear news about deaths, illnesses and viruses. All this causes thanatophobia - fear of death. We can confidently say that many people now have Covid-phobia. I have several friends who are sitting at home, afraid of contracting Covid in public places.
City dwellers are more susceptible to phobias. In bustling, crowded cities, there are more factors that cause stress and anxiety. Rural residents live in harmony with their inner world.”
