Claustrophobia (also known as confined space phobia) is an anxiety about isolated space, and space phobia belongs to a kind of place fear.
Patients are afraid of closed or crowded places, because they are worried that there will be unknown helplessness in these places, and even serious anxiety and obsessive-compulsive symptoms.
Once you leave this environment, the patient's physiology and behavior will soon return to normal. Claustrophobia is classified as a mental and behavioral disorder, especially anxiety disorder.
Symptoms usually appear in childhood or adolescence.
Claustrophobia is usually considered to have a key symptom: fear of suffocation.
In at least one (if not several) of the following areas: cubicles, MRI or CAT scanning equipment, cars, buses, airplanes, trains, tunnels, underwater caves, cellars, elevators and caves.
Being closed or considering being closed in a closed space will cause fear of not being able to breathe normally and running out of oxygen.
What triggers these emotions is not always the narrow space, but more the fear that it may be limited by what may happen in this area.
When the anxiety level begins to reach a certain ppo level, the person may begin to experience: sweating and/or chills, increased heart rate and blood pressure, dizziness, fainting, dizziness and fear of dry mouth, hyperventilation, hot flashes, trembling or trembling, "butterfly" feeling in the stomach, nausea, headache, numbness and suffocation, chest tightness/chest pain and dyspnea, impulse to go to the toilet, confusion or disorientation, and trembling.
1. Family education and parenting methods First of all, through excessively strict or dogmatic family education, people's psychological socialization process will be simplified, social adaptability will be reduced, and the level of cognitive socialization will be affected, making it difficult to make a correct judgment on objective things.
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Autocratic family atmosphere tends to distort children's normal psychological development process and lead to individuals' wrong cognition of external things.
2. Genetic and personality factors claustrophobia may be caused by psychological or life trauma in childhood. Individuals who have shown shyness before and experienced major life changes are prone to claustrophobia in adulthood.
In addition, the role of genetic factors in phobia has been paid more and more attention by scholars, and the specific reasons affecting individuals are still under further study.
3. Biologists have found that the postsynaptic 5-HT receptor of phobia patients is more sensitive than that of ordinary people, which makes patients more susceptible to the influence of closed space and produces psychological and physical fear.
4. Schizophrenia factor sigmund freud is the representative of the earliest research on claustrophobia. Freud first regarded claustrophobia as a chronic symptom of neurasthenia, and finally reflected it in his early works as anxiety hysteria. He explained that claustrophobia is the result of an individual's excessive sexual desire, which is suppressed by castration anxiety and Oedipus complex. Fear and anxiety plots cannot be released, and fear shifts from the surface to specific objects and scenes.
How to treat claustrophobia When claustrophobia attacks, there are two treatments: psychotherapy and medication.
Psychotherapy 1. Psychological counseling: Give necessary emotional support to relieve patients' nervousness. If the symptoms are serious, stop the treatment in time and lift the closure as soon as possible. 2. Systemic desensitization therapy is the safest and most effective method to treat claustrophobia at present. Doctors set a "ladder" fear value, so that patients can gradually get in touch with things and environments that cause fear, and gradually reduce it, and finally achieve the effect of completely disappearing symptoms.
Drug therapy 1. Anti-anxiety drugs. Antidepressants. Chinese medicine therapy.