Probably, everyone in childhood thought that his toys live their own, a special toy life. The idea is fascinating and, perhaps, a little frightening: how little will come to mind the sweet Barbie doll when her mistress turns her back. Especially it starts to frighten you when you look at another horror film, or you will read a similar book where the doll, into which the evil spirit has settled, or the soul of the deceased, or another astral body, creates various dark deeds, to demand his black soul, or at the will of the evil sorcerer , which it manages.
Fear of dolls and the causes of this phenomenon
In general, the idea that dolls can pose a threat is quite common in modern mass culture. And at the heart of it, as some psychologists say, lies the fear of dolls - something so similar to a person, and at the same time - completely artificial. Z. Freud believed that the fear of dolls, like many other fears - comes from our childhood. It grows out of the certainty that every kid has, that dolls are actually alive, but a person who has obsessive fear of dolls, or (as this fear is also called) pedophobia , the idea of animating this toy is not lost anywhere. As she grows up, she integrates into the picture of the world and generates a phobia that torments her owner for many years. By the way, pedophobes are afraid not of the kind of dolls themselves, but of the fact that they can harm them: cause a heart attack, strangle them in their sleep, or (and this most frightening) really start moving, which will confirm the rightness or insanity of this person. By the way, there is a more particular case of pedophobia - glenophobia - fear of looking at the doll.
Symptoms of obsessive phobia of puppies
Symptoms of fear of dolls, like any phobia, are:
- unreasonable irrational fear of the object of phobia , and the person understands that his fear does not lend itself to logical explanation;
- Attempts to avoid contact with this object in every possible way.
If the contact could not be avoided, then a person has a so-called panic attack. It manifests itself as:
- a sense of horror that grows into a panic;
- a sense of unreality of what is happening;
- a disorder of vision and hearing;
- disorientation in space;
- cardiopalmus;
- difficulty breathing;
- dizziness;
- tremor.
Treatment of pedophobia and glenophobia
Usually these phobias do not require treatment; rarely bring serious discomfort, because the object of phobia is avoided easily enough. However, in severe cases, psychologists, psychotherapists and psychiatrists are taking the case, which by various methods convince a person that dolls do not pose a threat to them.