The intention when making phobia it is for people to understand that it is a real problem and not a personal hobby. Some phobias are even laughable to outsiders, and in almost all cases, the general attitude is one of incomprehension. But allectorophobia or fear of chickens or chickens is not a joke.
What is allectorophobia?
Alectorophobia is the fear of chickens or hens and belongs to that type of rare that generates reactions of all kinds, from disbelief to jokes. But the panic of chickens is no joke for those who suffer from it, quite the contrary, since it can generate the worst anxiety reactions in them.
In theory, the fear of chickens is not phobia that affects your daily life; at least it depends on where you live. If you live on a farm or in the countryside, this disorder may complicate your life more seriously than if you live in a city, where contact with these animals is practically nil.
Because it is not a fear of cooked chicken, but of live chickens, those birds that peck and are not always in the most appropriate hygienic conditions. And we notice this as clues to the origin very particular specific phobia.
Causes of allectorophobia
Nor is it so strange to be afraid of chickens, once we know about other types of animal phobias such as arachnophobia. Generally, the phobia is triggered by a traumatic experience or with this animal. A chicken that bit you in childhood or an unpleasant situation in which the animal did not participate but was present.
Phobias come hand in hand with anxiety disorders. For this reason, the cause or origin of allectorophobia is also understood as the fear of catching something, since these animals are in permanent contact with the earth, or the fear of an attack by this animal.
Symptoms of allectorophobia
In the presence of a chicken, the person suffering from allectorophobia begins to notice the typical symptoms. Dry mouth, dizziness, nausea, shortness of breath, sweating and also paralysis in the face of fear that the situation produces.
The psychic symptoms go through confusion, a blank mind, fear and panic. The feeling of disability increases due to the misunderstanding that this phobia generates. It’s just a chicken! But so what? The same could be said of other phobias: it’s just a spider, it’s just an elevator, it’s…
Allectorophobia treatment
We insist that overcome you have to seek psychological help, because it is not a disorder that we can solve on our own. Conditioning factors such as the anxiety generated by chickens come into play, which must be learned to manage it and treat its symptoms with relaxation techniques.
And also the consequences that avoiding the situation can have. In this case, cognitive behavioral therapy is the most effective method to progressively stop associating fear with the situation and thus be able to transform the behavior that causes the stimulus.