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Are you afraid of the dark, so much ___1___ that if you
have to go to a
dark place, you panic and ___2___ faint? If this is how
you ___3___
to the dark, you might be ___4___ from nyctophobia. A
phobia is a mental
illness in which a ___5___ is abnormally frightened in a
normal situation or
feels extremely threatened by ___6___ harmless. People
who suffer an attack
of phobia experience ___7___ in breathing and lose a
___8___
of where they are. Some even get fits ___9___ of it.
High places, crowded
places and even the ___10___ of cats has been known to
trigger ___11___ such responses. To
___12___ a phobia, the person has to learn to relax
___13___
that particular situation he is afraid of. In the
___14___ of the nyctophobiax,
he has to stay in the dark, usually ___15___ a person he
trusts, to learn
___16___ experience that there is really no
___17___ in the
dark.
For more ___18___ cases, behavior therapy and hypnosis
are prescribed to
delve ___19___ a person's subconscious to undo the
unnatural ___20___
that he feels. |
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so
2. even 3. react 4. suffering
5. person 6. something 7.
difficulty 8.
sense 9. because 10. presence 11.
off 12. overcome 13.
in 14. case 15. with 16.
from
17. danger 18. serious 19. into
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Are you afraid of the dark, so much
so that if you
have to go to a
dark place, you panic and
even faint? If this is how
you react
to the dark, you might be
suffering from nyctophobia. A
phobia is a mental
illness in which a person is abnormally frightened in a
normal situation or
feels extremely threatened by
something harmless. People
who suffer an attack
of phobia experience difficulty in breathing and lose a
sense
of where they are. Some even get fits
because of it.
High places, crowded
places and even the
presence of cats has been known to
trigger off such responses. To
overcome a phobia, the person has to learn to relax
in
that particular situation he is afraid of. In the
case of the nyctophobiax,
he has to stay in the dark, usually
with a person he
trusts, to learn
from experience that there is really no
danger in the
dark.
For more serious cases, behavior therapy and hypnosis
are prescribed to
delve into a person's subconscious to undo the
unnatural fear
that he feels. |
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