Overcoming fear of contamination with hypnosis + mini test
Globophobia can be very annoying, at first you may not realize that you suffer from Globophobia because you just keep your environment nice and tidy and clean. However, if after a while you still prefer that visitors take off their shoes or better yet, don't come in at all, a problem may have arisen. If your urge to keep everything clean and to be in a clean environment yourself is costing you room to move and social interaction, it is time to intervene.
In this article, I discuss what taint anxiety is and how to overcome it with hypnosis.
It is quite normal to take into account that it is not spotless everywhere. For example, most people prefer not to go to a public restroom, but if you have to then you have to and normal people go anyway, but a fear of blemish can also have much more serious consequences.
A while back I was zapping and saw a program where women who suffered from a fear of blemish were taken outside. If you suffer from germaphobia, you are afraid of bacteria, fungi and viruses that live everywhere and might make you sick. Therefore, you want everything to be as clean as possible. Some women in this program vacuumed a rug in the living room for an hour every day. That was vacuuming 2 square meters every day for an hour.
Using test strips, they then went on to check how clean the environment was, such as an escalator handrail in the mall. It was all very exciting and scary for them, but they held strong.
That is, until someone came up with the idea of checking how clean the insides of their shoes still were after a day of walking around. You know, those things you don’t put in the washing machine every day because it’s often just not possible. Then, of course, it turned out they were too dirty to eat off of—because that was the standard. For one of the participants, that was just too much. She got completely upset and felt dirty; she started crying and ran out of the store they were in at that moment in a panic. On top of that, she was also afraid of what the other participants with a fear of contamination—who also had relatively dirty shoes—might think of her.
Of course, this is a very extreme example, but even in less severe forms, you can still suffer. To find out if you suffer from blemish, we can do a mini test.
Taint Fear Test
To get into the hypnosis mood, I would like you to imagine holding your hand on the inside of a trash can and touching the edge. If you find this difficult you can close your eyes for a moment and imagine opening the lid of the trash can and holding your hand against the edge.
What was this fantasy like for you?
Had trouble with it? Do you want to wash your hands right now even though you didn't do anything in real life? Did you have to shiver? Or did you think of this and nothing else happened?
If you found this difficult, there’s a good chance you have a fear of contamination; Of course, no one likes to put their hand inside a trash can against the inner wall where all the dirt is, but if the mere thought of it makes you nearly lose your mind, you can assume that you suffer from a fear of bacteria and other filth.
Taint fear symptoms
To find out for sure if you suffer from taint anxiety, you can check yourself for the following symptoms:
If you think you might be exposed to bacteria, you may feel dizzy, shaky, nauseous, have a dry mouth, and have trouble breathing.
You wash your hands very often and avoid touching doorknobs and handles. If your hands even get damaged from washing, you definitely suffer from blemish fear. Washing your hands to the point of chafing is also paradoxical because a hand with wounds gets infected by washing precisely more easily than a hand that is not washed as often, but has healthy skin.
Some people flush the public toilet with their foot. Even if you have to accept a package and then sign somewhere, you can worry about where that pen has been.
If you are really starting to avoid people, you have a problem.
Overcoming Taint Fear
Overcoming a fear of contamination is very important if it interferes with your daily functioning. For example, if you are constantly cleaning your keyboard at work instead of typing, it can cause professional problems and even dismissal because it makes your work pace too slow.
In the process, overcoming a fear of slurs allows you to relax more in public places, such as on a terrace with friends.
Letting go of control of your environment gives you more freedom of movement.
Taint Fear Therapy
To get rid of blemish anxiety and get back to cleaning in a normal way, you can use therapy. Cognitive behavioral therapy is one type of therapy that is widely used to reduce a fear of tainting. Several studies show that the effects of cognitive behavioral therapy can be enhanced with hypnosis. The thoughts that can cause the feelings of panic are then scrutinized and changed so that you no longer suffer from anxiety if you have to eat food that you didn't make yourself one time.
Then you have Flooding, this therapy exposes you to the "dangers" for long periods of time so you become more mentally resilient to the fact that it's not clean everywhere. The example of putting your hand in the trash can then be done literally.
My preference is hypnotherapy. Hypnotherapy can also use techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and neuro linguistic programming.
Taint Fear Cause
Another important factor in overcoming tinnitus is to identify the cause of the tinnitus. This also offers prospects for hypnotherapy. The hypnotic suggestions can be adapted to the cause, and by solving the underlying problem it is easier to deal with the danger of contamination more logically again.
One way hypnotherapy can identify the cause of a phobia is through regression. During regression, guided by the hypnotherapist, you return to the moment when your phobia of bacteria and other organisms began. You can then view that moment from a different perspective and reflect on how it shaped your beliefs about how clean the world is and how serious it is when things aren’t perfectly clean.
Then the hypnotherapist can help you create new beliefs that will help you have a healthy relationship with your environment and increase your freedom of movement.
The cause of a fear of blemishes can be rooted in childhood; for example, if you grew up in a less clean environment, this may have triggered some kind of backlash that makes you want everything super clean now. Also, if you were seriously ill as a child, this may have caused a fear of blemishes.
Taint fear in child
A child can develop a fear of contamination if they are around someone with that fear. For example, if you have a fear of contamination and are worried about your child showing signs of it, it’s wise to consider what you can do to overcome your own fear. Children mimic their parents, so if you’re no longer afraid, your child won’t be either.
However, if the cause lies elsewhere, there are other ways to help your child be less afraid of bacteria and microorganisms. For example, children are very receptive to hypnotherapy, especially between the ages of7 and12. Just like adults, children can benefit from hypnosis. In fact, in my experience, children are more open to it and therefore experience greater and faster success with hypnotherapy.
In short
It is normal if you prefer not to get infected and take measures against it. However, if those measures prevent you from functioning normally, you have a problem. For example, if you cannot leave your house because it is not clean elsewhere, but also if you prefer not to eat something that someone else has made.
It is especially unhealthy if you wash your hands so often that it actually leaves the skin chapped, which also has the opposite effect.
There are several therapy options to ensure that you can overcome your taint fear, such as cognitive behavioral therapy and neuro linguistic programming. These therapies are enhanced with hypnosis. In the process, hypnotherapy can help you identify the cause of your fear of slurs. This makes it easier to change your beliefs about it.
Children who grow up around individuals with a fear of contamination are more likely to develop a fear of contamination themselves. Fortunately, children can be helped with hypnotherapy and it often has a quicker effect than in adults!
Would you like to learn more about hypnosis? Be sure to check out the events and training programs offered by the Hypnosis Institute of the Netherlands.
Sources:
http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-HQWY200802027.htm
http://www.medfriendly.com/mysophobia.html