Everyone reacts separately towards death. As we grow from innocence to maturity our understanding towards things evolves. Necrophbia refers to the fear of death or dead things. From childhood death is explained in some hypothetical way to all of us. Usually as we grow our attachments get intensity and a fear to lose the closest one starts to thread us. The fear can come from the near death experience, or some dead body or some dead pictures and so on. There are differences between fear. Some people get scared by dead bodies or dead things but some are not afraid of dead thing or skeletons but the dying process and mortality. Once they experience a dying process they can’t forget that and eventually it gives way to anxiety. The signs of Necriphobia are
- Anxiety, headaches , vomiting, trembling after you see or hear something related to death
- Sweating and mouth drying once you experience something related to death
- Obsessiveness towards dead things
- Fainting, nausea and fear to leave house
- Difficulties after talking after you see dead things and so on
5 ways can help to get rid off fear of death
Spot and write down the situation that leads you to think of death
Most of the time when we get scared of something, we just feel scared rather then finding a way out. So, if we can spot which situations are exactly triggering us to think about death, it will be helpful to cure.
Start comparing your fear with the though of death
Some objects, emotion, situation influence is to think about death. It can be some food or some dress even some smell. For instance, a food dish can remind you the situation of your loved one’s death because the same food was served curing the funeral. The relation can be subtle but the thoughts are very strong.
Start knowing about the connection between anxiety and anticipation
Most of the time over thinking about something and treating something more dreadful that it actually is cause fear more than you imagine. If one starts looking beyond the fear and starts to face the fear rather escaping from it, can help to reduce the phobia
Accept yourself with reality
No one is mortal here. To keep the cycle running, everything has to end for a new beginning. Death is inevitable. So, you have to accept your life as a part of the cycle. Thinking about what if I die wouldn’t give you anything apart of anxiety and fear to face the reality. So, one should leave this unproductive thoughts.
Note down the unnecessary things giving you anxiety
There are many things which are certainly not related to death or your previous experience of death but still worrying you, note down those things and try to figure out the reality behind it .
Necrophbia is a fear that can be cured by continuous psychological therapy. Most of the time these all things gets neglected from the childhood and eventually takes a larger size and curves the psychological health. Taking help of professional someone, taking the help of spirituality, by having better understanding of death and life, this fear can be treated and cured. Otherwise this fear can develop and can pave way to other health issues like agoraphobia( fear of certain places), insomnia( fear of falling) and so on.
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