PHOBIA OF HOLES

Posted by loreen on May 23rd, 2019

A phobia is known as overwhelming and debilitating fears of an object place, situation, feeling or animal and person who has phobia, tends to exaggerate to unrealistic sense of danger regarding a situation or object at any place it occurs.

Fear of holes or phobia of holes is commonly known as TRYPOPHOBIA. It is a severe condition where seeing photos of holes can cause trembling, irritation and panic attacks. Trypophobia is not linked psychologically but an aversion to the sight of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes or bumps, it may manifest as an action of fear, disgust or both but the emotion of disgust is found stronger than fear in trypophobia cases. The word Trypophobia was coined in year 2005 by internet users.

CAUSES OF PHOBIA OF HOLES

The researchers and studies on trypophobia is limited as no specific causes has been compounded but certain experts like Geoff Cloe and Wilkins  proposed that it is an unconscious reflex reaction based on biological revulsion rather than a learned cultural fear whereas Martinez –Aguayo explains trypophobia is caused due to high contrast energy at low and midrange spatial frequencies.

Other researches speculated its causes and found that reactions could be perceived cues to infectious disease where there are the survival advantages. Yamada and Sasaki also proposed that trypophobic reactions are caused due to imagery visual similarties to skin diseases.

WHAT PROVOKES PHOBIA OF HOLES?

• Sponges
• Soap bubbles
• Rotten food moulds
• Honeycomb
• Sea sponges
• Water condensation
• Seed pods
• Beehives
• Pomegranates
• Coral
• Strawberries
• Lotus heads

SYMPTOMS OF PHOBIA OF HOLES

• Panic attack
• Trembling with fear
• Sweating and increased heart rate
• Palpitation and dizziness
• Feeling itchy and nauseated
• Feeling their skin crawling
• Goose bumps
• Visual discomforts such as illusions or distortions
• Fear of dying
• Sense of Unrealistic images
• Breathlessness
• Nervousness

TREATMENT FOR PHOBIA OF HOLES

There is no complete diagnosis or treatment for Phobia Of Holes but there are certain methods and therapies implemented to cope up with debilitating phobia.

Cognitive behaviortherapy can be used which helps sufferers to distinguish that their fears is in their imagination and the unrealistic patterns are nothing but just thought patterns.

Regular therapy, counselling and hypnosis will expose trypophobic to overcome their illness and meet the wonders of real world.

CELEBRITIES WHO SUFFERED FROM PHOBIA OF HOLES

The Victoria’s secret model admitted that she struggles with trypophobia and feels disgust while seeing at cluster of holes another celebrity who confessed of being trypophobic is star royalty Kendall Jenner, she admitted that she finds it difficult to look at patterns of holes and things like pancakes, honeycomb or lotus heads upsets her and gives her worst anxiety of what’s in there in those holes.

Condition of phobia of holes is not recognized by the American PsychiatricAssociation’s Diagnostics and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Researches propounded are conflicting and shady, the subject phobia of holes is not studied extensively to identify whether the condition is a genuine phobia or a feeling of disgust.