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For many centuries, the property has evolved something with a person. It would seem that in our body and consciousness there was not a single cell, not a single subconscious reaction that would not be thoroughly studied. But no, even today, scientists discover and give names to the new phobias, pushing us into the abyss of inexplicable fear. Do you know what a person has a tripophobia and do you have it? Our article will answer all popular questions about this disorder.

Tripophobia - a fear of boring (cluster) holes and individual holes of biological and production origin. This is a relatively new phenomenon in the modern information space: fear probably exists as much time as the human race, but they calculated it and gave official status recently.

The image in the photo is a potential source of tripophobia, and, perhaps, some of our readers have now moved away from the monitor away:

Tripophobia: the history of the publication of the disease

For the first time, scientists became interested in the phenomenon when virtual networks gave people the opportunity to exchange online images, which for some reason caught their attention. As a result, in the 2000s, the ubiquitous statistics were noticed that a huge number of people united not only the passion of “to envy” on the network, but also a fear or even a persistent aversion to photos of objects dotted with numerous small holes. We are talking about bee honeycombs, dry seed boxes of plants, the accumulation of black dots on the skin, etc. One type of hole causes a tripophobe an inner trembling and a sense of nausea.

At first, the fear of cluster holes was considered an Internet phenomenon, and articles on this topic on Wikipedia were immediately deleted due to the lack of reliable sources. A little later, the scientific researchers of Oxford substantiated this phenomenon and in 2004 gave him an official name: Tripo - to hole, make holes, phobos - fear.   Since then, multiple experiments have been conducted for a better understanding of an unusual phenomenon.

For example, in 2010, English psychologists Arnold Wilkins and Jeff Cole studied a phenomenon by interviewing a wide audience. They received an many times increased image of the fruits of the lotus, which are in the recess on the plant’s hat, and printed it on the photo paper. About 300 respondents aged 18 to 60 were offered to look carefully at the picture. 11% of men and 18% of women estimated the image on a scale that confirmed the presence of phobia. People described their sensations when looking at the plant as unpleasant, nauseating, panic.

What is tripophobia

The irrational painful thrill, which is caused in a person, the tiny holes, bobmed in asymmetric order, can hardly be explained, despite its prevalence. People subject to tripophobia cannot calmly look at objects or objects strewn with holes or recesses: photos of plants or animals with this line, as well as areas of the human body, make Trypophobe worry and experience strong emotions of a negative nature.

The victims of an unusual phobia try to avoid not only “dangerous” pictures. They are also frightened by the realities of the surrounding world: the holes between fibers of meat, pores and stretching on the skin, recesses and holes on the surface of vegetables and fruits, with furrows of trees. Some particularly impressionable people can bring out of balance even a mention or thought of a hole.

In some cases, tripophobia can be called disgust when looking at one hole or when observing its formation. As an example, we give squeezing acne on the skin. Videos of this nature is now quite a few on beauty channels on the Internet. This can also include photos and videos of swarming larvae in the holes on the body of the animal. The tripophobia associated with the openings on the skin is considered the most common.

There is no detailed classification of the disorder at the moment, but several stages of tripophobia are distinguished:

• light - at the sight of cluster holes, a person begins to worry and nervous;
• the middle one-having seen alternate recesses or holes, a person feels how something unpleasantly compresses in his area of \u200b\u200bthe sternum. A trembling appears in his hands, a convulsive seizure is not excluded;
• heavy - gaping holes of the cluster plunge the patient into a state of panic attack. A person has vomiting, he is lost in space.

Specific signs of tripophobia

The emotional spectrum of sensations with fear of this species is unusually wide. People describe their experiences about what they saw differently:

• someone literally “yells” from the feeling that an insect crept over the skin;
• in a certain percentage of people, “goosebumps” run along the back and hands;
• some hardly restrain the attack of nausea and disgust;
• others describe the feeling of chill in the diaphragm;
• it is reliably known that impressive people with good imagination are subjected to a powerful panic attack at the thought of the holes.

There are many other symptoms characteristic of tripophobia:

• increased sweating;
• heart heartbeat;
• severe irritability;
• the appearance of bad obsessive thoughts, the pathological nature of which a person is aware of, but cannot get rid of them;
• an unpleasant burning sensation on any part of the body;
•   a false sense of rotation or movement of surrounding objects;
• entrance, vomiting, vomiting;
• dizziness;
• disorders of the autonomic nervous system;
• dissociative personality disorders;
• apathy, in which a person lies motionless, does not respond to the words addressed to him, does not react to what is happening around;
• a feeling of suffocation because of the impossibility of breathing in the air in full chest.

Objects that are afraid of tripophobia

There are several categories of objects and objects that cause concern in people prone to tripophobia:

• natural recesses in legumes, patch and seed plants;
• holes on the skin of animals and humans in the form of saline plugs in the sebaceous ducts, traffic jams, which are formed as a result of inflammation of the ducts of the sebaceous glands, rash;
• holes that appear from water exposure;
• corals, porous fossils;
• insect moves: anthills, okay, along which caterpillars and worms crawl;
• round recesses in food products - for example, in cheese, in vegetables and fruits.

From what three tripophobia arises

Despite the increased interest of society in this disorder, the mechanisms of its development are not reliably confirmed and are under assumptions. According to scientists, the causes of tripophobia should be sought through the study of associative thinking of a person.

Tripophobia from association with predators

Scientific researchers of Wilkins and Cole are convinced that visual features of the image are decisive in the formation of negative sensations. They thoroughly studied photographs that cause a attack of tripophobia, and pictures that do not cause negative emotions. As a result, the researchers came to the conclusion that all repulsive images are united by a similar mathematical structure consisting of small contrasting elements in the form of points and stripes. Such a “pattern” is characteristic of the natural coloring of the skin of many toxic representatives of the animal world. Experimental studies have proven that a person experiences discomfort at the sight of such images.

Tripophobia from Association with Dangerous Diseases

The spatial position of unpleasant objects explains not all cases of disorder. The trips of tripophobia that occur at the sight of damage on the human skin stand apart. Why is it so great for sensitive people? A weighty cause of skin tripophobia is the involuntary subconscious activation of psychological protection. Such intuition helped our ancestors survive, avoiding sick people who, in fact, were carriers of diseases that are life -threatening. Later, the fear of ulcerative formations, recesses, pits and holes on the body was transformed into tripophobia.

Treatment of tripophobia

Symptoms of a strange phobia are very eloquent, so a person immediately notices that he reacts to the image of clusters in an abnormal way. For solving the problem, you need to contact a narrow specialist - a psychotherapist.

The doctor evaluates the patient's condition with maximum objectivity: if the feelings that occur in a person at the sight of a perforated surface give him severe discomfort will be prescribed one of the treatment methods. Speaking about how to get rid of tripophobia, it is fair to assume that the best therapy is to look into the eyes of your fear. Unfortunately, this phenomenon has still been little studied, but scientists suggest that treatment methods that are usually used to eliminate other phobias work in this case.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy of tripophobia

The purpose of the method is to change the course of the patient’s thoughts, get rid of heavy images in the head, converting them into a positive model of thinking. As a result, Tripofob learns to draw a clear line between reality and his unproductive fantasies. Behavioral therapy, in particular hypnosis, works great if the fear of holes is rooted in a person as a child.

Neuro-linguistic programming tripophobia

The method is based on the meeting and contact of the patient with the object of his fears. At the same time, the specialist helps the patient reprogram his personal worldview in order to reduce the destructive effect of tripophobia.

What is the danger of tripophobia

The disorder, fortunately, is rarely complicated to a severe pathological state, in which the following symptoms are observed:

• sudden and very painful muscle contraction;
• an involuntary short -term state in which the patient loses consciousness;
• prolonged migraines;
• increased muscle tone;
• unwillingness to respond to irritants of the world;
• terrible metamorphoses in the body that lead to the loss of motor functions.

To help a person in such serious condition, the patient is hospitalized in a special medical institution. At this stage, the attacks of tripophobia require drug treatment, which are based on anti -inflammatory and sedatives.

For those who want to test themselves for deviation of this nature, we offer a simple test for tripophobia. Carefully run through the images that we offer below.   Who knows, perhaps you look at yourself from the absolutely new and unusual side.

Where are the roots of tripophobia. Video