{"id":309,"date":"2016-09-01T22:34:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T22:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/?p=309"},"modified":"2018-01-28T22:11:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T22:11:42","slug":"how-to-cope-with-your-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"How to Cope with Your Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Up to 9 percent of the U.S. population has a specific\u00a0phobia<\/a>, according to the APA, including claustrophobia. Few seek help. \u201cThe phobias are the most predominant anxiety disorders that there are, but most [people with] them never get any treatment,\u201d Wilson says. Instead, they do their best to avoid the situations that scare them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But people who seek help can overcome their fears. \u201cThis isn\u2019t like Type 1 diabetes,\u201d which has to be managed through life, Wilson says. Nor is it something that people can usually “just get over,” adds Brenda Wiederhold, a clinical psychologist who treats anxiety disorders at the\u00a0Virtual Reality Medical Center<\/a>\u00a0in San Diego and Brussels. She says fear that\u2019s unrelenting, excessive and irrational should drive patients to see a professional who treats anxiety. \u201cIf you\u2019re starting to avoid things; if you know you need a medical test and you put off the MRI for a year \u2013 that\u2019s when it\u2019s gone from a fear to a phobia,\u201d she says, noting that the condition typically manifests when people with a genetic predisposition for an anxiety disorder face a life stressor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Even people whose claustrophobia-related anxiety isn’t debilitating or constant can improve with treatment. \u201cWhether you have the disorder or you don\u2019t have the disorder, if you have something that\u2019s unpleasant to you, and you want to get rid of it \u2013 that\u2019s the sign to get help,\u201d Wilson says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Up to 9 percent of the U.S. population has a specific\u00a0phobia, according to the APA, including claustrophobia. Few seek help. \u201cThe phobias are the most predominant anxiety disorders that there are, but most [people with] them never get any treatment,\u201d Wilson says. Instead, they do their best to avoid the situations that scare them. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrphobia.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}