What are the symptoms of trypophobia? How is it treated?

Trypophobia is a disease that many people suffer from. The main symptoms are that when seeing dense objects, they will have a certain fear, and may even feel dizzy, nauseous, and have numbness of the scalp. Trypophobia is a psychological disorder. If it is serious, medical treatment is required. The main treatments include behavioral therapy and drug therapy. Here is some information about trypophobia.

1. Overview

The real reason for trypophobia is that people have an instinctive fear of dense objects. The so-called lotus picture uses this point to scare many people. The picture itself is not disgusting, it is just a psychological reaction, similar to some people having acrophobia or phobia of sharp objects. Mild cases can be controlled by gradually becoming familiar with the method of trying to deal with it from mild to severe. Severe cases require seeing a doctor. It will cause psychological discomfort and mental tension. More importantly, seeing similar objects around will cause allergic reactions. May cause relapse.

2. Symptoms

Very sensitive to relatively small objects arranged closely together, feeling dizzy, nauseous, and tingling scalp. Some people have it, some don’t, and the degree varies from person to person. Dense matter classification

1. Depression-intensive

Lotus breasts, empty fingers and other composite images on the Internet belong to this category and can bring people the greatest degree of intensive fear. The concave-intensive type requires that it is three-dimensional, and then there are many holes on a surface. There may be something in the holes (such as lotus seed pods), or there may not be anything. According to people's reactions, when they see this kind of scene, they will have a desire to dig holes.

2. Plane-intensive

The intensive type brings less fear to people, and sometimes even no fear at all, and only a small number of people will feel fear. For example, a piece of paper is covered with ants, or a pattern is repeated on a piece of paper.

3. Highlight intensive

For example, the trunk of a tree is full of insects of the same kind (ladybugs, beetles, spiders, etc.), and they may be stacked on top of each other, making it very crowded. For example, densely packed insect eggs.

3. Treatment Methods

1. Behavioral therapy

First, find out how the patient's fear was formed, especially the situation when it first occurred. Understand the patient's personality characteristics and mental stimulation factors in detail, and adopt appropriate behavioral therapy, such as systematic desensitization therapy and exposure shock therapy.

2. Medication

Strictly speaking, there is no drug that can eliminate fear, but anti-anxiety drugs and propranolol, etc., are very effective for the physical symptoms of phobia, and can eliminate autonomic nervous system reactions and reduce the level of alertness.