Trypophobia
I've been struggling with phobias for many years, but the worst phobia is Trypophobia (a fear of holes). I will see advertisements online and the images will make me physically ill, or see something while driving and it will set off a panic attack and I will need to pull over to calm myself down. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to control my phobia? It's getting to the point I can barely function.
@sincereSouth2677
I personally do not have any experience with Trypophobia, so I did some investigational work and I found this from an article on the many different treatment options:
• Behavior Therapy – undergoing the therapy allows an individual to change and be able to control the unwanted behavior. Through the therapy, one could learn how to cope up trypophobia during difficult times especially when they are exposed to tiny holes.
• Cognitive Therapy – the goal of this therapy to trypophobe people is to alter their harmful and unproductive thinking patterns. Sufferers examine their feelings for them to learn to separate real from unreal thought. With this, trypophobic people must participate for them to recover easily.
• CBT or Cognitive and Behavior Therapy – there are some therapist that uses mixture of the two therapies for trypophobia. In this, sufferers learn the skills of recovery that they could use on their everyday life.
• NLPor Neuro-Linguistic Programming – in this method, trypophobe people are exposed and the reprogramme in order for the phobia to lessened and be alleviated. Typically, the interventions are fast and very efficient. Moreover, the involvements are as well direct and easy to utilize in self help conditions.
https://trypophobia.org/phobias/overcoming-trypophobia
I'd also recommend looking at our self-help guide on Panic Attacks It may help with finding ways to cope in addition.
I hope this helps, good luck! 