Have You Conquered Your Phobia?

Everybody guess where this idea is coming from... Same place most of my ideas for blogs come from... Yes, it happens to be wonderful PSYCHOLOGY!

So, here is the thought. Today we talked about phobias; mostly arachniphobia. We watched this semi interesting movie on this lady that wore snow suits in her home almost all year around fearing that if she didn't she would be unprotected from all the spiders. She also carried around one of those dusting wands and waved it around in the air to prevent herself from walking into a spider web that might happen to be there. She would tape up her bedroom door so that no spiders would crawl through the cracks. It was basically insane. Anyways, so then they did this virtual therapy thing... and she was miraculously cured. But she explained the anxiety that this phobia caused. Some people have anxiety when they're in large crowds, or closed spaces, public bathrooms (the germs :o ) , new places, and there's about a phobia for anything really. What's the point of what I'm saying? They compared this to being in love. Don't you experience the same feelings of anxiety? Your heart beating miles per minutes, the nerve wracking, the sweaty palms... it was just an interesting thought. So, really being in love is a phobia? Now that may be a fallacy, but really they can relate. Do people avoid love because of the anxiety or nervousness that it may cause? I personally think that some people do this, but really, many people haven't had a problem conquering that fear. I mean, here around BYU campus, it seems that obviously people aren't having to much of a problem with it. But so then why is it that so many people have these phobias... big or small that prohibit them from doing things, that they haven't seemed to overcome? If the same reactions are occuring because of the messages from your hippocampus ( woo hoo, using my phych. vocab. ), why are their so many people that seem helpless in facing their fears? ... Anyways, it was just a wonder... that may be insignificant, but it was fun to think about.

..... That is my thought for the day, Until Next Time....