Fear of trees

Phobia is not a simple fear, it arises from obsessive fear, which is very difficult to resist. The phobia fully causes the fantasy to draw in the brain terrible pictures, in the center of which are frightening events or objects. A person with a phobia may have vegetative reactions: increased respiration and pulse, increased sweating, shortness of breath, or inability to breathe evenly.

Fear of trees - signs of phobia

Botanophobia - phobia of plants includes one of the varieties - dendrophobia, which means that a person suffers from fear of trees. People who suffer from dendrophobia feel fear even when they see a small tree. Gilophobia has something in common with dendrophobia, only that the hyphophobia can come to a panic state when planting trees.

In some cases, trees could become the cause of fear. For example, after seeing an accident in which the originator of the incident was a tree. After watching the horror film, in which every now and then the main killer was a tree killing people with its sharp branches. Such terrible images very brightly emerge in young children, who have a highly developed imagination . After the experience there is a risk that a small fear of trees will appear, but it is possible that later it will turn into dendrophobia.

Description of dendrophobia

Fear of the forest is also the cause of dendrophobia. When working with this phobia, one problem arises - the patients do not recognize this disorder, because they are sure that they will not avoid ridicule and insults. If a person who suffers such a phobia will be among the dense forest, there will immediately be a feeling that he was trapped and can not breathe. There is a panic state, anxiety.