How to cure anxiety and fear with folk remedies

What are we afraid of?

Phobia (from the Greek φόβος - “fear”) is a neurotic symptom, an irrational fear or anxiety state that goes beyond conscious control.
A phobic reaction occurs in response to a certain stimulus, situation, or in anticipation of this situation.

If you are terrified of flying on a plane, if you shudder at the mere thought of spiders, if you are scared as hell looking out from a balcony on the sixteenth floor, if you break out in a cold sweat in a narrow, cramped closet, or in a crowd, or on the edge swimming pool - you can be sure that you have one of the many phobias.

Phobic syndrome rarely lends itself to a logical explanation.

It is impossible to convince a person suffering from a phobia that his fear is often unfounded.

At the same time, a person, as a rule, is completely critical of his experiences, that is, he understands well that being afraid, for example, of clowns (or cats), is at least strange, but he cannot do anything about it.

Treatment of fears and phobias in a hospital. Prices

The hospital price already includes:

• Full diagnostics in the laboratory
• Individual therapy plan
• Medicines required for treatment
• Choosing a room to stay
• Balanced 3 meals a day from the chef
• Group and individual psychological therapy
• Regular monitoring of patient progress
• Therapeutic massage, exercise therapy
• Physiotherapy and yoga therapy
• Complete and constant cleaning of rooms
• Buffet open 24 hours a day
• Gym, table tennis room
• Free WI-FI, games, movie shows
• Convenient parking and walking area

Stages of treatment for phobia in hospital

To treat a phobic disorder in Moscow, you need to go through the most important stages:

• work through phobias;
• take antidepressants;
• use tranquilizers;
• undergo psychotherapy sessions.

1) Primary diagnosis

Before treating asthenic syndrome in Moscow, the patient undergoes a high-quality diagnosis, tests are collected and a full examination is carried out. Specialists also conduct psychological diagnostics, take tests, conduct an ultrasound examination, study a cardiogram, and the patient is examined by a neurologist.

2) Treatment plan.

Based on the collected data, tests and conversations with doctors, an individual treatment plan will be prescribed for the person. If the situation is controversial and the case is severe, professors and specialists will be involved in the problem to prescribe an individual plan for further treatment. They will select treatment options with medications and psychological therapy.

If a patient has an acute condition, he poses a danger to himself and his loved ones - a special team will come home to pick him up. They will help transport him to the hospital and treat this condition in the hospital.

3) Therapy. After establishing an individual therapy plan for indolent manifestations of the disease, the patient is treated with medications + psychological therapy (both alone with a specialist and in a group).

How to treat fears and anxiety in children. Treatment of anxiety disorders in children

Therapeutic assistance to children is provided by psychiatrists and psychotherapists, but for successful rehabilitation it is necessary to involve the mother, father and other close relatives. The scope of treatment procedures is determined individually: for mild forms of the disorder, one course of psychotherapy and parental support is sufficient; for severe forms, long-term drug treatment and periodic meetings with a psychologist are necessary. The general treatment regimen is as follows:

• Psychotherapy. During cognitive behavioral therapy sessions, the psychotherapist corrects destructive attitudes, replaces negative judgments with positive ones, and teaches skills to manage emotions and solve problems. As a result, the child learns to independently resolve difficult situations and resist the influence of stressful influences. If anxiety is based on fears or phobias, systematic desensitization techniques are used.
• Family psychotherapy. To eliminate the child’s anxiety, it is necessary to correct the increased anxiety of parents and problematic family relationships - factors in the development and maintenance of the disorder. Interacting with the family, the psychotherapist uses techniques of cognitive psychotherapy and gestalt therapy. It establishes normal communication between all family members, teaches parents to better understand the child, control emotions, and avoid situations that provoke anxiety in their son or daughter.
• Drug therapy. Medication is indicated for moderate to severe anxiety symptoms. For long-term therapy, antidepressants are used. The drugs of choice are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). The use of anxiolytics under the age of 18 is justified in exceptional cases when there are acute symptoms. For this purpose, benzodiazepines are used, therapy is carried out short-term.

Benefits of treating phobias in a hospital

• 24/7 monitoring. Our doctors monitor the health of patients around the clock.
• Isolation from familiar surroundings. The patient cannot leave the center during the course of therapy. Only close relatives can visit him by appointment.
• Proper nutrition. For patients, we offer a varied menu and meals 3 times a day. All dishes are prepared by good chefs.
• Living with relatives. In our clinic you can live with relatives in the same room.

How to treat fears in children of primary school age. Causes of children's fears

There are several reasons why children's fears arise:

- a traumatic situation suffered by the child and the fear of its repetition (a bee sting, for example);

- excessively frequent reminders to the child by parents about the occurrence of possible unpleasant situations;

— accompaniment of any independent actions of the child with an emotionally charged warning about danger lurking along the way;

- frequent bans;

- conversations in the presence of children about various negative phenomena (deaths, murders, fires);

- conflicts in the family, especially if the source is unwittingly the child himself;

- disagreements with peers, their rejection of the child;

— deliberate intimidation of a child by parents with fairy-tale characters (Baba Yaga, goblin, water-goblin) in order to achieve obedience.

These are the so-called age-related fears that appear in emotional and sensitive children.

Quite often, fears are a manifestation of diseases of the nervous system – neuroses.

There are also indirect reasons (preconditions that create conditions for the development of children’s fears. Thus, the incorrect behavior of the mother, who takes on the role of head of the family, causes anxiety in the child. The mother’s desire to quickly go to work after maternity leave has a bad effect on the child, while the child feels an acute lack of close communication with her.

Children from single-parent families, as well as the only children in the family, who become the center of their parents' worries and worries, are more susceptible to fear. The age of the parents also has an impact - the older the parents, the more likely their children are to develop anxiety and worry. The stress experienced by the mother during pregnancy or the conflict situation in her family during the period of bearing the child also influences the appearance of fears in children.

Types of children's fears

Experts identify four main types of fears in children. This classification is based on several characteristics: the subject of fear, the characteristics of its course, duration, intensity and reasons for its occurrence.

Obsessive fears

They arise in strictly defined situations. The child is afraid of the circumstances that may lead to their occurrence. For example, obsessive states include fear of heights (acrophobia, open and closed space, etc.).

Delusional fears

This is a more severe disorder, the cause of which is sometimes very difficult to find and explain. For example, children may be afraid to open an umbrella, put on a certain jacket, or play with a specific toy. However, you should not be afraid if you discover a similar fear in your child. Sometimes the source of a phobia lies on the surface. A child may panic at the sight of shoes only because he once slipped in them and hit himself painfully.

Overvalued fears

These are the most common fears, occurring in 90% of cases when a specialist works with children and adolescents. Thus, among preschoolers and primary schoolchildren, fears of the dark, loneliness, as well as animals and fairy-tale characters predominate. Children are convinced that these fears are justified; they actually believe that terrible monsters await them in the dark, and in the absence of their parents they face numerous dangers. Such ideas prevail in children's consciousness, that is, they acquire the character of an overvalued idea.

Night terrors in children

This is a collective group of phobic conditions that occur during sleep and are characterized by the presence of an altered form of consciousness. Night terrors occur in approximately 2-3% of preschool and schoolchildren. In a dream, the child begins to rush around, scream, cry, utter separate phrases: “Take him away,” “Let me go,” etc. Often the baby calls his mother, but does not recognize her. After a few minutes he calms down, and in the morning he cannot say anything about the nightmare. Sometimes night terrors are accompanied by somnambulism.

Family therapy in the treatment of phobias

Treatment of fears with hypnosis, medications and the help of a psychiatrist in the treatment of phobias are necessary help for patients. But it is also important to pay attention to family psychotherapy with this illness. The help of a psychiatrist in treating fears for all family members is very important. Because it is the relatives who live with a sick person who can help him cope with phobias and fears. The doctor will also be able to quickly understand the causes and treatment of the patient’s phobias.

Who treats phobias - if you want to make an appointment with a psychiatrist in Moscow, pay attention to the qualifications of the specialists who will deal with the patients’ problems. In our clinic, neurologists, therapists and psychiatrists work with people with phobias and provide anonymous treatment.

When you are anxious and afraid: how to cure fears

Each of us has experienced a feeling of anxiety or fear at least once in our lives. In most cases, these unpleasant sensations pass without a trace, but sometimes they grow, increase in size and can greatly interfere with our lives. How can you cope with phobias and other manifestations of neuroses, and do you need to see a doctor for this?

A case from one's life

We were all taught from childhood to wash our hands before eating. For one of my friends, this habit became an obsessive action. At first, everyone admired her cleanliness, but later her manner of constantly washing her hands after touching any object crossed all boundaries. No one, including herself, could count how many times a day she washed her hands: a bar of soap “was gone” in 1-2 days. And after the girl sat in the toilet for more than an hour because she couldn’t open the door because she was afraid to get her hands dirty on it, my friend’s relatives realized that something needed to be done. And after unsuccessful attempts to cope with compulsive hand washing on their own, they decided to consult a psychotherapist. Fortunately, they sought help when the problem could still be quickly resolved, so the treatment was short and successful. After several weeks of psychotherapy while taking medications that supported and strengthened the nervous system, the girl managed to return to normal life.

How fears arise

You will say - this is an extreme case, and this does not happen often. This is true, but, ironically, less pronounced fears are very common in people. According to statistics - both in our country and around the world - from 4 to 12% of people suffer from various phobias, that is, they occur more often than in every tenth! Impressive, right? Unfortunately, many people, for various reasons, hide their fears and prefer not to consult doctors or psychologists - including because, again, it’s scary. How does fear arise and why are people embarrassed to consult a specialist? The reasons for this, as usual, are very different. Our life, with its frantic rhythm and abundance of information, has been constantly pushing back the edge of a person’s state of “normality” in recent years and decades. In order to “get everything done,” we have to speed up our rhythm of life. This is not always beneficial to health, and the fear of “not being on time” only complicates the situation. Therefore, we are not always able to maintain self-confidence in such a situation. And when self-esteem falls, much in the world around us seems incomprehensible and threatening, and this creates an unfavorable environment for the emergence of fears. How exactly can fears and phobias arise? In certain situations - for example, in a crowded subway car - a person becomes afraid that he may die from suffocation or go crazy. Fear begins to strengthen itself, and a person may have the feeling that he has not coped with fear, and it has begun to live “its own life,” beyond the person’s control. And then he may fear that the same unpleasant sensations of fear will arise the next time in the same situation - on the subway at rush hour. Frightened by this prospect, he begins to avoid traveling on the subway, large crowds of people, and other similar situations. Almost always, this significantly reduces the patient’s quality of life: it may be psychologically very difficult for him to move in the metro, or he will spend much more time on the road, choosing ground routes for himself - not to mention the fact that attending public events will also not be easy for him. Over time, if nothing is done about the emerging fear, it will grow, increase in size and can move into other areas - for example, anxiety and fears may appear while driving, on ground transport, on an airplane...

And now what i can do?

It is clear that the most important thing in such a situation is to remain calm and confident. Any fear can be overcome if you do not withdraw into yourself, but act and seek help - both from yourself and from those with whom you can share your experiences. Increase your self-esteem, learn to overcome fear every day, read books and watch movies that help you cope with it. And if all of the above does not help, then you can turn to a specialist who professionally works with problems at the intersection of medicine and psychology, including fears - a psychotherapist. When phobias, obsessions and other anxiety disorders become so severe that they interfere with life, it is by turning to a qualified psychotherapist that you can get rid of them and start living life to the fullest again.

Psychotherapist - who is he?

A psychotherapist is no longer just one doctor in the whole country, Dr. Kurpatov. Now in our country there are more and more specialists working with a variety of psychological and medical problems - from the same fears to psychotherapeutic support of pregnancy and treatment of addictions. Many of them specialize in different areas, so finding a specialist to treat your specific problem is quite easy. But some people in this place have a certain difficulty: “What will this specialist do with me?” “Feed psychotropic pills?” “Won’t it heal?” In fact, a psychotherapist is a doctor like other medical specialists, but if a gastroenterologist helps you cure gastritis or get rid of gallstones, then a psychotherapist helps you recover from fear and other problems. The difference, in fact, is not so great as to refuse this help and wait until fear grows and begins to literally devour all the strength and energy of a person. If you break your leg, you go to a traumatologist and they put you in a cast so that the bone heals correctly. Our psychological state can also be broken: it will not be as noticeable as breaking a bone, but the consequences can be even more dire. For some reason, it has always been our custom to not pay attention to such “little things” as psychological problems: if you want to talk it out, share your pain with a friend. For men, it is not customary to share such things at all. Meanwhile, this is really very important. Mental health can be lost unnoticed: there is no stomach or back pain, and only feelings - sadness, fear, anxiety - sometimes let you know that something is wrong. Therefore, you need to listen and pay attention to your psychological needs. There are situations when intimate conversations with a friend alone will not help - and in this case it would be more correct to consult a psychotherapist. Then the approach to treatment will be thoughtful, attentive and professional.

How fears are treated

First, the psychotherapist will listen carefully to the patient and carefully collect information about how long the fear has bothered him, how it is expressed and under what conditions it arises. After this, if necessary, the patient undergoes additional examinations. The fact is that sometimes fears, obsessions and other neuroses can be caused not only by psychological reasons, but also by dysfunction in the functioning of the nervous system or even internal organs - for example, caused by oxygen starvation of the brain during childbirth. In these cases, additional examinations will help the doctor decide on treatment tactics.

When the diagnosis is clear, the actual therapy begins. In some cases, the patient may be prescribed medications that reduce anxiety, improve brain nutrition, and strengthen the nervous system. The purpose of their appointment is to provide medicinal support to the body and correct the changes that have been detected. And in parallel with medications, or even without them, psychotherapeutic treatment is carried out.

The main method of treatment of a psychotherapist is psychotherapy. This method of helping a person is not “just talk,” as it may sometimes seem. This is a conversation structured in a certain way, thanks to which the patient manages to see something that will help him get rid of fear; and in some cases, the therapeutic effect can occur even without the patient’s awareness, as if by itself.

Typically, a psychotherapist knows several methods of psychotherapy - such as Gestalt, cognitive behavioral psychotherapy, or the well-known psychoanalysis and hypnosis. During a conversation with the patient, the specialist determines which of these methods of work is best suited for this person and begins psychotherapeutic treatment, if necessary, combining it with other methods of psychotherapy. As a result of this work, the patient manages to cope with anxiety and fear, he realizes the reasons that caused these fears, and learns to successfully cope with them. This gives him the opportunity to start living a joyful, fulfilling life again without fear and anxiety.

Psychotherapists of the MeraMed network of clinics have extensive experience in treating fears, obsessions and other neuroses. They will conduct a thorough examination and effective treatment using the most effective medications and psychotherapy methods, which will allow you to regain your good mood and regain your self-confidence.

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What happens if phobias are not treated?

If a person’s phobias are not identified in time, he or she will be at risk of developing the following consequences:

• serious depression;
• alcoholism and drug addiction;
• personality disorders;
• panic attacks.
• suicide attempts.

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The worst risk with phobias is that a person can commit suicide in this state.

What is a phobia?

A phobia is a fear of certain things, phenomena, events or places that manifests itself too strongly, causes various unpleasant consequences and is obsessive. A common reaction to stimuli in people with phobias is the desire to avoid them. There are schools of psychology that interpret the answer to the question of what a phobia is more broadly. Thus, in many modern areas of psychoanalysis, phobia is understood as obsessive anxiety neurosis. In this context, the condition is considered beyond the presence of any specific source of obvious or imaginary danger.

In the official list of nosological units of ICD-10, phobias are allocated a subsection of the block of headings of neurotic, stress-related and somatoform disorders. However, in order for any medical approaches to make sense, there must be a significant decrease in the quality of life, due to the fact that the feeling of fear, anxiety or panic would become uncontrollable for a person, and the very nature of fear would make its presence incompatible with normal life activities. For example, fear of spiders can be very strong, but if it occurs only upon unexpected visual or tactile contact with real representatives of this order of arthropods, it is not an absolute indication for the initiation of medical intervention. Some work with a psychologist may be required, but you can do without it.

However, there are also types of phobias that can make a person completely helpless or greatly affect the quality of his life. In this case, medical correction of the condition is highly desirable or necessary.