Rabies and the fear of rabies can be a frightful thing, especially when one considers how truly agonizing the symptoms and eventual outcome of someone suffering from hydrophobia -- which is the clinical term for rabies -- will experience. As far as being fearful of the disease itself, the clinical term for this is hydrophobophobia. In some people, this fear of contracting rabies can be practically debilitating.
This fear or phobia is one of numerous phobias that have been identified by clinical mental health specialists over the years. What makes this one particularly serious is that the fear that it can create in many of its sufferers borders on the near hysterical. Perhaps this is partly due to the way in which rabies as a disease is so horrible and also in how it occupies a place in pop culture.
A still bigger reason why so many people become fearful of contracting rabies is that it is almost certain to kill them should they actually contracted. There is no cure for it once someone develops the symptoms, though there is a completely effective medication that is administered should someone be bitten by an animal infected with a virus. Still, the image of a mouth-foaming dog is hard to forget.
This sort of behavior has been popularized in numerous movies over the decades, including one that was screened back in'83 and was about a large dog who was a beloved family member. This St. Bernard was bitten by a bat infected with the rabies virus and eventually became a violent killer. The fear of rabies, therefore, can be primal and visceral in many people due to the way it acts.
For sure, a number of effective therapies for treating this phobia exist today. Many of them, however, can take quite a long time in helping a person to resolve his or her fear of contracting rabies. Lately, there have been a couple of positive advancements in treatment therapies and which can help those suffering from the phobia resolve their issues in a shorter period of time.
For those actually suffering from the fear of rabies, others need to know that it is a real phobia that can strike terror in the hearts of those afflicted by it. This is even though the chances of being afflicted by rabies itself are extremely remote. Fortunately, those who suffer from the phobia have treatments available to them that are effective and widely available. - 30309
This fear or phobia is one of numerous phobias that have been identified by clinical mental health specialists over the years. What makes this one particularly serious is that the fear that it can create in many of its sufferers borders on the near hysterical. Perhaps this is partly due to the way in which rabies as a disease is so horrible and also in how it occupies a place in pop culture.
A still bigger reason why so many people become fearful of contracting rabies is that it is almost certain to kill them should they actually contracted. There is no cure for it once someone develops the symptoms, though there is a completely effective medication that is administered should someone be bitten by an animal infected with a virus. Still, the image of a mouth-foaming dog is hard to forget.
This sort of behavior has been popularized in numerous movies over the decades, including one that was screened back in'83 and was about a large dog who was a beloved family member. This St. Bernard was bitten by a bat infected with the rabies virus and eventually became a violent killer. The fear of rabies, therefore, can be primal and visceral in many people due to the way it acts.
For sure, a number of effective therapies for treating this phobia exist today. Many of them, however, can take quite a long time in helping a person to resolve his or her fear of contracting rabies. Lately, there have been a couple of positive advancements in treatment therapies and which can help those suffering from the phobia resolve their issues in a shorter period of time.
For those actually suffering from the fear of rabies, others need to know that it is a real phobia that can strike terror in the hearts of those afflicted by it. This is even though the chances of being afflicted by rabies itself are extremely remote. Fortunately, those who suffer from the phobia have treatments available to them that are effective and widely available. - 30309
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