Are you experiencing feelings of dread or overwhelming thoughts? Do these thoughts come with a rapid heartbeat and tunnel vision? Are you extremely afraid that something will happen to you and you will experience some severe pain? You are not alone. Fear of pain is actually a very common phobia among people, who suffer more from the fear rather the pain itself.
Fear of pain come down to the redirection of the unconscious. People who suffer know, on the surface, that these fears are irrational and do not have a realistic or logical base. However, they cannot avoid them, because phobias tend to be persistent, attached to a part of the subconscious that cannot be easily reached.
Fear of pain is usually caused by negative experiences of the past, or can be created and reproduced seemingly without any basis. People who suffer from this type of phobia are people who have a general tendency towards anxiety, panic and fears, who suffer from adrenal insufficiency and who are usually known as highly strung people.
Fear of pain, or as it is medically known algophobia, cannot be treated with any medicine; there are several treatments available today that focus mostly on helping the patient understand and acknowledge his phobia and deal with it. In severe cases, doctors prescribe some mild anti depressant pills, however, this solution doesn’t cure the problem, but only the symptoms.
Some of the most know therapies and treatment methods for fear of pain are energy Psychology, which is emerging as an excellent therapy for all types of phobias, and hypnotherapy that offers the chance of a retrospective analysis that can help the patient understand and deal with the source of the problem. Both therapies are considered efficient and effective because in studies they are safe and long-lasting and help the patient uproot the problem.
