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WHAT IS PHALACROPHOBIA?
Phalacrophobia or also known as peladophobia, is the fear or fear of baldness, going bald and losing hair . This phobia can also extend to fear of bald people.
This is not a strange condition for anyone, the vast majority of people do not want to lose their hair for any reason, this added to the fact that hair loss is very common and affects a large part of the world population, results in to this kind of fear.
You may be interested in reading about the fear or phobia of hair .
BALDNESS PHOBIA
Although a part of this phobia is related to the fear of bald people, the core of this fear is found in the fear of losing one’s hair .
This phobia can even affect people who have abundant hair and do not have any signs of baldness.
The most serious cases come to present a distortion of reality when looking in the mirror, where they can be seen losing their hair when in reality it is not happening.
SYMPTOMS OF PHALACROPHOBIA
The symptoms do not differ much from any other phobia , excessive sweating, increased blood pressure, shortness of breath, nausea and anxiety.
Previously we also mentioned that in the most serious cases this phobia can affect the individual cognitively, creating hallucinations and totally imaginary stimuli, it can even cause panic seeing things as harmless as the photo of a bald person.
TREATMENT TO OVERCOME PHALACROPHOBIA
To treat this phobia we have the always reliable psychotherapy , with control techniques for anxiety or relaxation, this helps to calm those moments in which the phobia unleashes a panic attack and / or anxiety, and progressive exposure therapies, where the individual is exposed to their fears in order to eliminate fear, these therapies can be carried out at the same time achieving very good results.
In the pharmaceutical field there are certain drugs used to treat this phobia, among them we have benzodiazepines or beta-blockers, these drugs are used to complement the treatments already mentioned.
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