The fear of mannequins, dolls or children is clinically known as pediophobia.
While it is verily not the most tasteless phobia that we treat here in our hypnotherapy clinics in the Uk, it is something that we do see several times a year. Many clients have been relieved to learn that not only is there a name for this disorder, but that it most verily can be successfully and quite verily treated.
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The real whole of citizen suffering from this particular anxiety disorder is verily unknown because most have no name for it and so imagine that they are the only ones with this fear. Few citizen would verily feel fully at ease visiting a doctor and saying: ‘Doctor, I’m afraid of store mannequins…’
This, of course, not only serves to further alienate the someone experiencing the phobia, but it also prevents them from getting the help that they need and that is available. If allowed to go untreated, this phobia can seriously sway the individual’s life in some truly major and quite devastating ways.
Sometimes, this fear can assume such amazing proportions that it seriously interferes with the individual’s ability to function in a normal way. An individual afraid of mannequins, for example, can very verily find a way to avoid those shops selling clothing. Or the individual who has a phobia of dolls or children can find themselves turning down opportunities to visit family and friends who are mystified and hurt by their behavior.
The symptoms of pediophobia are, ordinarily speaking, similar to those found in other phobic conditions.
In the nearnessy of children, mannequins or dolls, the phobic individual commonly finds their heart pounding and their breathing becoming labored and shallow, and this is so often accompanied by feelings of nausea and a dry, parched feeling in the mouth. Some citizen may find difficulty in thinking or speaking properly, and the anxiety can fast snowball into a full blown panic attack, with all of its fearful feelings.
All too often the individual experiencing this phobia is all too keenly aware that it is irrational, but he or she feels powerless to do whatever about it. Will power and attempts to ‘grin and bear it’ do high-priced microscopic to lessen its frightening grip.
This is because fear, like all feelings is generated in the subconscious part of the mind, and so it is to the subconscious that we must turn for a real solution.
But what causes a someone to organize such a fear or phobia?
Almost all the time it is because of some unpleasant caress that the individual has passed straight through when younger, often in childhood.
At some time in the person’s past, they have been surprised or shocked while in the nearnessy of mannequins, dolls or children, or have had a frightening caress which the younger self interpreted as being dangerous. (In some cases, this may even have been in a dream, bad dream or movie.)
This traumatic caress caused the pediophobic someone to become afraid and anxious and they have linked this fear with mannequins, dolls or children in a manner similar to a ‘conditioned response’. Often this event has been forgotten by the known mind, but it is still being held onto by the subconscious which is attempting to prevent the someone from putting themselves into danger again by creating fear as a means of protection.
But there is a way out.
Unfortunately, many therapists attempt to remove this phobia by simply working on the symptoms – the fear itself. This, however, can all too often prove only a temporary fix, even complicating matters.
A phobia has an origin, and carries with it much unprocessed subconscious emotion. By merely removing the fear symptom, the someone is left vulnerable to this unprocessed emotion surfacing in another way.
In a process akin to displacement, the anxious emotions can later manifest themselves in all sorts of different unpleasant ways that are ostensibly unconnected with the primary phobia. This process is called ‘symptom substitution’.
In order for pediophobia to be fully and fully treated and healed, it is principal that the marvelous subconscious emotion linked to the phobia also be correctly processed and comprehensively treated, together with the anxiety and fear itself.
In the hands of an experienced, fully marvelous transformational hypnotherapist, the someone can be safely taken back to the introductory sensitizing caress itself (and to key reinforcing experiences, too) and there the damage can be undone. The ‘script’ or ‘program’ can be ‘re-written’.
Once the subconscious has approved the truth – that mannequins, dolls or children do not in reality pose a threat or a danger — then the someone is released from the grips of this pernicious and restrictive phobia.
If you or someone you care about suffer from the inhibiting phobia that is pediophobia, fear of mannequins, fear of dolls or fear of children, do not despair, help is available.
With correctly applied, contemporary transformational hypnotherapy techniques, you verily can get control and end pediophobia for good.
You’ll be glad you did!
A Fear of Children, Dolls or Mannequins – Hypnotherapy treatment For Pediophobia