Term Phobia:

Phobia is a word that has been derived from the Greek god “Phobos” who used to scare his enemies and in psychology, this term refers some type of irrational fear.

Term Schizen:

Schizen can be defined as disorder or scattering of something.

Types of Phobia:

1- Animal Type Phobia

This type of Phobia can be defined as the irrational fears of animals like Allurophobia (fear of cats), Cynophobia (fear of dogs), Insectophobia (fear of insects), Archnophobia (fear of spiders), Ophidiophobia (fear of snakes), Rodentophobia (fear of rats).

This type of Phobia occurs mostly in childhood. Its ratio is greater in females than males.

2- Natural Environment Type Phobia

That means fear of natural demonstrations like Brontophobia (fear of storm), Hydrophobia (fear of water), Ombrophobia (afraid from rain), Acrophobia (afraid from Height), Nephophobia (afraid from clouds)

This type of Phobia can be found in females greatly rather than males.

3- Medical Related Fears

It can be occurred in any period of age. It is due to some Medical Mishappening. It includes Hematophobia (afraid from blood), Belonophobia (afraid from needle)

4- Situational Type Phobia

That defines that a person feels fear in a specific situation and it occurs in childhood or in youth. It includes Claustrophobia (fear of narrow places), Siderophobia (fear of train), Aerophobia (fear of airplane), Elevatorphobia (fear of moving stairs)

5- Social Phobia

It is a persistance irrational fear that arises in anticipation of a public situation in which an individual can be observed by others.

6- Homophobia

The term Homophobia refers to the irrational fear of a traditionally misunderstood and ostracized group, homosexuals.

7- Schizophobia

It can be define as the Fear of mental ailment or fear of being Schizophranic.

It is defined as “Someone who is scared of schizophrenic’s or scared of becoming schizophrenic.”

OR

“Schizophobia is an intense paralyzing fear of something in the absence of any real danger”

Etiology of Schizophobia (Symptoms of Schizophobia)

According to Professor E.Bogby: 1928, A condition of having irrational extrem fears”.

Nervous symptoms: The person also faces headache, faintness, increase in pulse movement, fatigue and also low blood pressure.

Hunger & Sleep: These two motives are lessened and the weight decreases.

Hallucinations: The person feels different type of irrational fears like he is being attacked by someone or he is afraid that lest he would attack someone.

Physical existance: The fear of such situations that physically exist in society. Like he is not afraid of being attacked by the moon, or he is not afraid of being killed by the mountain or sun etc. But instead he is afraid from the real situations and real person.

Causes of Schizophobia:

1- Segmund Freud says in his book “Introductory Lectures” in which he has discussed Schizophobia detailed, “These fears are concerned with a specific condition and being present in such situation, he feels that fear automatically”.

2-Its main cause is any mishappening of childhood that he can never forget. He consciously feels fear of such type of people or situations.

3-Any mishappening of childhood that he ignored for the time being, becomes very strong and unconsciously he feels fear of such type of people or situations. Davison & Neil 1998 say: “Phobias are defence against the anxiety produced by Id impulses”

4- Undoing Mechanism: If the person has done something wrong with any person like any injustice or any immoral act, his conscience pricks him again and again for that immoral act.

5- Modelling: If the person idealise someone and that ideal person is suffering any type of phobia, the person who is idealising automatically gets that phobia in himself.

6- Cognitive Theories: Mathews & Macleod 1994: He feels fear because he pays much attention at negative stimulous and he gets sure that mostly the negative incidents will happen in future rather than the positive incidents. He becomes partially pessimist.

7- Biological factors: According to some experts, the people affected by stress have some biological malfunction that causes Schizophobia. It includes genetic, harmonic and inheritance problems.

Treatment of Schizophobia:

Psycho Analysis:

The uncouscious desires or fears of that person are brought to the Conscious level from the uncouscious level with Indirect Methods like Free Association and Dream Analysis. In this way the symptoms of Schizophobia are removed.

Behaviour Modification:

By applying it, some positive changes are brought in a person’s attitude in which we can include Desensitization

Desensitization means To bring that fearful situation or person, before the patient persistantly to remove his phobia and stress. In this way when he experience that situation again and again, he releases his stress or phobia.

Implosion or Flooding:

By adopting this method, that fearful situation or person shown to the patient quite suddenly and the patient feels anxiety immediately but when he feels that fearful situation or person is not harmful for him, his anxiety automatically vanishes. But this Method of Treatment is quite risky because if he is deadly scaraed of that fearful object, he might face deadly effects.

Hypnosis:

Hypnotism is used for the treatment of Schizophobia but this method of treatment is also very risky as the patient can have the more critical condition if the hypnotism is not successfully done. The after effects of hypnotism can be very much harmful. So only the experts can use this method successfully.

Medication:

Usually Tranquilizers are used for the treatment of patient that is a temporary solution. That is not permanent.

Aftermaths

Aftermaths of the above discussion is that Schizophobia is a very common type of disease that can lead us towards the serious mental ailments like Psychosis. Shortly it is a conflict between Id and Ego. For a treatment, we need to have a very experienced psychiatrist with thorough knowledge of it. According to the famous psychiatrists Devison & Neil, its percentage in male is 7% and in females 16%.

According to the renowned psychologist Magee 1996, Non-English people have more ratio of this disease rather than the English people.