Trypophobia - what is it? How does it arise?

If you look at the image below with fear and disgust: you have creepy crawling, itching, itching, hair stirring, and even nauseous, you can safely take yourself to the ranks of triphophobes.

The fear of multiple holes in the organic and inorganic environment is called trypophobia. What this state and how it occurs, we will discuss in today's article.

Fear of cluster holes is not real?

Immediately need to say that in modern medicine, trypophobia has not yet been officially recognized. It is considered something akin to a pronounced fastidiousness, normal for a person.

It is not known whether those who can hardly look, for example, on bee honeycombs or skin with heavily dilated pores, those who are being harassed by trypophobia, are consoled, that this condition is simply one of an infinite number of fears that people experience.

How do fears arise?

But psychologists are not at all surprised by this. After all, people can be afraid of absolutely everything! At the heart of their fears lie, as a rule, traumatic experiences (bitten by a dog - there was a fear of dogs), frightening, shocking information (after watching a large number of horror films, fear of the dark may appear ) or biological factors (hereditary predisposition to anxiety).

But, by the way, one should not forget about such a phenomenon as the so-called "emotional infection". When discussing the themes of "trypophobia" publicly, the photo of cluster holes begins to cause fear and disgust for more people. People from such a group say they did not know about their belonging to triphobobs, until they read the comments of other participants. There is nothing surprising in this: it is always easier, for example, to laugh at a comedy if everyone around you laughs.

Trypophobia - what is it: disgust or fear?

One obsessed with this fear wrote that he was stung by a bee from the outside of his hip during his student years. Because of the allergic reaction, a strong tumor appeared, and on the swollen skin all the pores became visible, and this subsequently led to the fact that any small holes started to cause the victim's experience.

Psychologists note that fear is often mixed with disgust. These two feelings are usually hand in hand: spiders, mice, vomit, blood - all this causes not only fastidiousness, but also involuntary fear of getting sick.

Probably, the "pockmarked" of small holes also looks like an anomalous, irregular surface, giving a danger signal, which appears externally in the form of disgust. Especially when it comes to organic objects: there holes, probably, suggest the idea of blisters and rashes.

Trypophobia - What is this: a rare phenomenon?

Almost every person, faced with the fear, thinks that he is the only one who manifests this. But no, and people deprived of any kind of phobia, and those who defined their state of the concept of trypophobia, pictures with images of multiple small holes on the body of a person or animal (especially filled with something) cause unpleasant sensations. Just trypofoby remember about the image longer and experience what they saw sharper. And the number of such people, strangely enough, increases.

Alas, while you can only sigh and admit that the human brain keeps too many secrets!