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Overcoming Fear |
Self Help Tips (Home) > Overcoming Fear > Agoraphobia Agoraphobia and Symptoms: Did My Fears Start as a Baby?There are some of us who suffer from severe fear and develop extreme reactions to the fear, such as:
This condition has been categorized as 'agoraphobia'. As agoraphobics, we tend to spend our lives avoiding people and places that bring on panic attacks. We make our homes our refuge and avoid venturing out into the open world where we can have another of those hateful panic attacks. In an effort to figure out how to avoid the reactions to fear, we forget to search for the core reason for the attacks. People who suffer from agoraphobia are born with creative intelligence and immense sensitivity to a variety of stimuli. As babies, we had trouble sleeping, would have strong reactions to loud noises, bright lights, cold, heat, medication, etc. Could our hyper awareness and keen sensitivity been signs of our predisposition to agoraphobia? While other babies did not necessarily react adversely to loud noises or sudden changes in light or temperature, we would exhibit a nervous reaction to such stimuli. Medications or certain foods could also set off such reactions. As babies, the only way we could indicate the stress we were experiencing on account of uneasiness, discomfort or pain due to our hypersensitivity to certain stimuli, was to cry. As adults, our bodies are able to send out a greater variety of distress signals - shivering, extreme nervousness, anxiety, high fever, tunnel vision, vomiting, pain etc. These reactions are not comfortable to live with. It is important for us to recognize and accept our inherent intelligence and heightened sensitivity. It is also equally important for us to realize that our experiences as babies probably set us up, to automatically react with fear to possible stimuli which translated into agoraphobia.
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