There are many types of phobias; some are more specific and others more general; some are towards animals, others towards concrete objects and still others towards mere sensations. This is the case of dinophobia or fear of vertigo, which should not be confused with fear of heights, because people who suffer from it do not need to go anywhere to suffer from it. We tell you everything about dinophobia.
What is dinophobia?
Dinophobia is the fear of feeling dizzy or dizzy. That feeling that your head is going away or that your head is going free: her on one side and your body on the other. That feeling that everything around you is moving, that you lose balance, stability and that feeling that everything is wobbling.
The fear of vertigo and dizziness is a rare phobia, the phobia of heights is more common, which is related but not the same. And it is also related to those phobias towards something abstract, such as the fear of infinity or the fear of eternity. And be careful because you don’t have to go up to the roof of a building to suffer from dinophobia.
Symptoms of dinophobia
What do people who suffer from dinophobia feel? It is a terror and an irrational and excessive fear of having vertigo or dizziness. It can occur in any situation, in any place and at any time in which the body warns of an unreal danger due to the imminence of suffering vertigo.
Therefore, you do not need to walk across a bridge, approach a cliff or climb on top of a building. There are people who suffer from vertigo and dizziness due to cervical problems, for example, and this can happen anywhere. The symptoms of dinophobia are the same as those of anxiety and among them coincidentally is also dizziness, which turns this phobia into a real nightmare.
Causes of dinophobia
But what causes the appearance of a phobia like this fear of vertigo? In most cases it is conditioning by a traumatic experience. People who have experienced a vertigo episode in a highly emotionally charged situation will be terrified of a repeat of the experience.
In the case of dinophobia, it happens like with panic attacks, that once you have suffered one, you are afraid that it will happen again. And it is precisely that fear that calls to live that situation over and over again. As we say, it is a terrifying vicious circle in which fear and vertigo are the protagonists.
Treatment of dinophobia
Like all phobias, the fear of vertigo can also be overcome. And like all phobias, psychological help is needed to do so, it is not convenient to try it alone because it could make the situation worse and it could also favor the appearance of new phobias.
There seems to be agreement that cognitive behavioral therapy is the most suitable for treating all kinds of phobic disorders. It is a therapy that helps to understand the development of the phobia, to identify the distorted thoughts that produce the fear and, therefore, to modify the behavior.