How To Beat Necrophobia, The Irrational Fear Of Death
Among the most common fears is necrophobia, the fear of dying. This serious fear affects many people and can develop regardless of a persons health, age, or personal beliefs. It is a fear that may have far ranging consequences on a persons life. Often, people are afraid of anything that can be linked to death, such as funerals, or less apparently, medical centers and horror films. In extreme cases, the anxiety disorder leaves sufferers crippled with terror. Even though this fear is one of the most serious, through education and treatment, people can completely overcome this irrational fear. Most of us can understand the fear of death and dying, but when an individual experiences a phobia, they have more serious, life-altering feelings of dread that can impair their day-to-day lives. The fear of death itself can lead to intense feelings of fear, paranoia, and serious panic attacks. Phobia sufferers often feel terrified of situations under which they are not in complete control. Although some individuals experience fear all the time, in others, it is only triggered by specific sights or events. For some individuals, the fear of death may arise after a life-changing incident such as watching a loved one pass on. The phobia is marked in general by the overwhelming feeling of an intense, irrational fear of death, dying, and anything linked to death. The fear of death is not often as simple as it seems. This is because the phobia is linked to pain, hypochondria, fear of the unknown, and other underlying concerns that make it difficult to overcome. This obstacle can be handled by a treatment formulated to work against multiple phobias. Such is the case with a comprehensive hypnotherapy and NLP therapy program. Anxiety disorders can be treated with a number of methods. Successful treatments include talk therapy and other types of therapy such as hypnotherapy, NLP, anti-stress medication, and anxiety-relief techniques. Hypnotherapy used in conjunction with NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques tends to have one of the highest efficacy rates among the many treatment options because it utilizes several unique methods for easing fears and preventing anxiety. A hypnotherapy regimen starts with anxiety fighting techniques that make the mind receptive to phobia-relieving suggestions. Treatment of stress and anxiety is an integral part of fear treatment because it is considered to be the initial stage in preventing anxiety attacks and preventing negative, fear-generating mental associations. Systematic desensitization techniques combined with the hypnotic state are another effective mechanism of treatment. Under hypnosis, a patient is gently guided into imagery of fear-triggering situations and is taught how to release anxiety. After successful treatment, patients are able to stay rational and calm under situations which normally trigger fear. Users also say that thoughts that normally cause fear no longer cause them fear. Systematic desensitization may also be conducted outside of the hypnotic state, but it then becomes a more difficult, time-consuming and intensive process. The NLP Visual/Kinesthetic Disassociation is perhaps the most effective technique to terminate strong fears. This technique helps people "disconnect" their emotions from the root, unconscious images that set off a panic attack, in a process that allows them to rapidly "snap out" of the sensation of fear. Due to this, programs with the V/K Disassociation are often called "instant" phobia cures by their creators and patients alike. Hypnosis therapy has taken advantage of increasingly advanced techniques for tackling the root of fears. Ericksonian hypnosis, so named after its inventor, Dr. Milton Erickson has proven a success in helping to re-work the thought processes that cause a phobia. Using encouraging language, it automatically guides the unconscious mind into a fear-free thought process. Similarly, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is used to reform the unconscious thought processes. With the NLP Flash technique, fear provoking thoughts will automatically be turned around to eliminate the fear instead, leading to instant phobia relief. The fear of death can be treated even at levels of high severity. Traditional techniques combined with hypnotherapy can accelerate the treatment process, while novel hypnotherapy techniques work at the level of the unconscious mind to end fear and anxiety. The non-invasiveness of hypnosis also renders it a safe treatment option as it can reduce or end the need for anti-anxiety prescriptions. Fear patients regularly report dramatic, life-changing effects arising from hypnotherapy. For many people experiencing the fear of death, hypnosis provides a good form of relief.
