The fear of Halloween "The Season Of The Witch Can Be A Real Bitch!"

Samhainophobia

An abnormal, persistent fear of Halloween

Life is full of frightening things that scares the be-jilly's out of some folks. Though most are able to not panic and cope with these personal fears. But during the moth of October the creepy factor is always on the rise. No matter where you go their or always reminders that start the fear factor rising.

Phobias (in the clinical meaning of the term) are the most common form of anxiety disorders. An American study by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) found that between 8.7% and 18.1% of Americans suffer from phobias. Samhainophobia and Phasmophobia is categorized by a series of symptoms that the sufferer experiences when they think they have seen a ghost, or apparition. The suffer usually experiences intense feelings of terror or dread and are often prone to panic or have panic attacks, these symptoms in turn result in an increased or rapid heart-beat. Another common symptom, typical of a majority of specific phobia, is attempts by affected individuals to completely avoid a situation in which one may think they are prone to encountering what they perceive as a ghost.

Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain from the Old Irish samain . The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes regarded as the "Celtic New Year". Traditionally, the festival was a time used by the ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, now known as Halloween, the boundary between the alive and the deceased dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops. The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, into which bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown. Costumes and masks were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or placate them.

THE DEVIL'S NEW YEARS DAY!

Many specific Halloween phobias can be traced back to a specific triggering event, usually a traumatic experience at an early age. Social phobias and agoraphobia have more complex causes that are not entirely known at this time. It is believed that heredity, genetics, and brain chemistry combine with life-experiences to play a major role in the development of anxiety disorders, phobias and panic attacks just by the mention of the word.

Pumpkins, witches, skeletons and the ghostly chill of the grave in the air. This usually spells for some a reason to jump under the bed and hide until Thanksgiving day. just the cartoon images or host of horror movies that start showing on TV October 1st are enough to make some have symptoms of a panic disorder. More people than you would expect experience types of Halloween time or trick or treat social anxiety.

Halloween celebrations, travel and the intensity of this special day have jumped in the past few years. The factor that it is still becoming as almost as important as Christmas seems to put some on edge. Mansy say that the "Devil's Holiday" while rival Christmas day and turn into a week long or month long time to revel in darkness. Specific phobias - fear of a single specific panic trigger such as spiders, snakes, death, the dead, dogs, night, blood, ghosts, haunted houses, scary movies, etc. Couple this with Ephebiphobia - fear or dislike of youth or adolescents. And Xenophobia - fear or dislike of strangers or the unknown, sometimes used to describe nationalistic political beliefs and movements such as in an election year and OH-Oh it's time to hide until it's over!

Halloween, or Hallowe’en, is an international holiday celebrated on October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting haunted attractions, carving jack-o'-lanterns, reading scary stories and watching horror movies. Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several countries of the Western world, most commonly in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Japan, New Zealand, United Kingdom and occasionally in parts of Australia. In Sweden the All Saints' official holiday takes place on the first Saturday of November.

The carved pumpkin, lit by a candle inside, is one of Halloween's most prominent symbols in America, and is commonly called a jack-o'-lantern. Originating in Europe, these lanterns were first carved from a turnip or rutabaga. Believing that the head was the most powerful part of the body containing the spirit and the knowledge, the Celts used the "head" of the vegetable to frighten off any superstitions. The name jack-o'-lantern can be traced back to the Irish legend of Stingy Jack, a greedy, gambling, hard-drinking old farmer. He tricked the devil into climbing a tree and trapped him by carving a cross into the tree trunk. In revenge, the devil placed a curse on Jack, condemning him to forever wander the earth at night with the only light he had: a candle inside of a hollowed turnip. The carving of pumpkins is associated with Halloween in North America, where pumpkins were readily available and much larger, making them easier to carve than turnips. Many families that celebrate Halloween carve a pumpkin into a frightening or comical face and place it on their home's doorstep after dark. In America the tradition of carving pumpkins is known to have preceded the Great Famine period of Irish immigration. The carved pumpkin was originally associated with harvest time in general in America and did not become specifically associated with Halloween until the mid-to-late 19th century.

The imagery surrounding Halloween is largely an amalgamation of the Halloween season itself, nearly a century of work from American filmmakers and graphic artists, and a rather commercialized take on the dark and mysterious. Halloween imagery tends to involve death, magic, or mythical monsters. Traditional characters include ghosts, ghouls, witches, owls, crows, vultures, pumpkin-men, black cats, spiders, goblins, zombies, mummies, skeletons, and demons.

Particularly in America, symbolism is inspired by classic horror films, which contain fictional figures like Frankenstein's monster and The Mummy. Elements of the autumn season, such as pumpkins and scarecrows, are also prevalent. Homes are often decorated with these types of symbols around Halloween. Due to the nature of the condition, sufferers are not necessarily afraid of halloween itself, consider into the mix ghosts or other apparitions but rather what they perceive to be a ghost, or to enter into a situation in which they feel they are likely to encounter a ghost. For example, a sufferer of cynophobia (an abnormal fear of dogs) is afraid specifically of canines, rather than a situation in which they could encounter a canine. The fear itself is also prone to inflame itself, in that due to the onset of panic caused by the phobia, a suffer is severely impaired in terms of judgment, therefore when a sufferer sees or experiences what they think could be a ghost, their ability of rational thinking is eliminated and so the urge to find the true nature of the experience is lost and instead a fully fledged panic attack is often triggered.

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FEAR OF THE DEAD AND THE UNDEAD. VAMPIRES, ZOMBIES, GHOST!

Necrophobia- Fear of death or dead things. Or death anxiety os a very real problem to some. Necrophobia or thanatophobia is the fear of death or dead things (e.g., corpses) as well as things associated with death (e.g., coffins). Necrophobia is derived from Greek nekros for "corpse" and -phob- for "fear". Thanatophobia is derived from Thanatos, the personification of death.

Samhain is one of the eight annual festivals, often referred to as 'Sabbats', observed as part of the Wiccan Wheel of the Year. It is considered by most Wiccans to be the most important of the four 'greater Sabbats'. It is generally observed on October 31st in the Northern Hemisphere, starting at sundown. Samhain is considered by some Wiccans as a time to celebrate the lives of those who have passed on, and it often involves paying respect to ancestors, family members, elders of the faith, friends, pets and other loved ones who have died. In some rituals the spirits of the departed are invited to attend the festivities. It is seen as a festival of darkness, which is balanced at the opposite point of the wheel by the spring festival of Beltane, which Wiccans celebrate as a festival of light and fertility.

Phasmophobia (or spectrophobia) is a type of specific phobia, being an abnormal and persistent fear of ghosts, spectres or phantasms. It derives from the greek words "phasma" meaining "apparition" and "phobos" meaning "fear". It is often bought about by experiences in early childhood and causes sufferers to experience panic attacks. Spectrophobia (from Latin: spectrum, "image") or eisoptrophobia is a morbid fear of mirrors and the dread of seeing one's own reflection, a kind of specific phobia.

Phasmophobia is similar to other specific phobia in that it is the result of the unconscious mind acting a defence mechanism to try and avoid a certain situation or object and is thus classified as a type of mental health disorder. It is often bought about by a person believing they have had an encounter with a ghost, most often at an early age, but can also be caused by television and films. When bought about by the latter it is often temporary. Therefore, although the actual existence of ghosts is debated, the fear of ghosts only requires a person to believe they have had an encounter. For example, in an attempt to recall certain events pertaining to a possible encounter with a specter, a hypnotist might use hypnosis to retrieve the lost memories of the event. Research studies have found that these "hypnotically refreshed" memories typically combine fact with fiction, but would convince a patient of the realness of their encounter. There is also the psychological factor of entering a premises in which one already possess prior information that it is suspected as being haunted or is similar to other supposedly haunted places, the psychological impact of this alone can cause the anxiety bought about by phasmophobia.

Fear of the dark: The fear of the dark is a common fear among children and to a varying degree is observed for adults. The pathological fear of the dark is sometimes called nyctophobia , "night" and, phobia), scotophobia, from - "darkness", or lygophobia, from - "twilight".

The fear of the dark is heightened by imagination: a stuffed toy may appear a monster with many teeth, bulging eyes, and eating marshmallows in the dark. Nightmares contribute to the fear of the dark as well: after waking up because of nightmare the child may refuse to go to bed without lights on. Fear of dark is a phase of child development.[1] Most observers report that fear of the dark seldom appears before the age of 2 years. Fear of the dark is not fear of the absence of light, but fear of possible or imagined dangers concealed by the darkness.

Some researchers, beginning with Sigmund Freud consider the fear of the dark as a manifestation of separation anxiety.

In the 1960s scientists conducted experiments to discover molecules responsible for memory. In one experiment rats, normally nocturnal animals, were conditioned to fear the dark and a substance, called scotophobin that was apparently responsible for remembering this fear was extracted from rats' brains. Subsequently these findings were debunked.

Fear of children: Fear of children and/or infants or childhood is alternately called pedophobia or pediaphobia. Other age-focused fears are ephebiphobia and gerontophobia. Recognized outcomes of pedophobia include paternalism, adultism, and by extension, ageism.

Fear of being buried alive: Fear of being buried alive is the fear of being placed in a grave while still alive as a result of being incorrectly pronounced dead. The abnormal, psychopathological version of this fear is referred to as taphophobia (from Greek taphos, meaning "grave"), which is translated as "fear of graves.

Fear of bats: Fear of bats, sometimes called chiroptophobia (an incorrect derivation from the order Chiroptera of bats) may refer both to a specific phobia associated with bats and to common negative stereotypes and fear of bats stemming from prejudices and misinformation. Not all bat phobias are caused by misinformation or prejudice, however. Bites from rabid bats or other negative experiences could also cause this phobia.

Fear of being touched: The fear of being touched (also known as aphephobia, haphephobia, haphophobia, hapnophobia, haptephobia, and haptophobia ) is a rare specific phobia that involves the fear of touching or of being touched. It is an acute exaggeration of the normal tendencies to protect one's personal space, expressed as a fear of contamination or of the invasion, and extending even to people whom its sufferers know well.

Sometimes the fear is restricted specifically, or predominantly, to being touched by people of the opposite sex. In women, this is often associated with a fear of sexual assault. Dorais reports that many boys who have been the victims of sexual abuse have a fear of being touched, quoting one victim who describes being touched as something that "burns like fire", causing him to freeze up or to lash out.

As the month of October draws to it's end and the day of the dead is near. Remember their or those that fear the night of All Hallows eve. And that person might be you or me!

I will have to scream now......
I haven't had a cycle in over three years, right?
Guess what I got for Halloween? You got it!
My head is killing me, my back is killing me, and I'm pissed off! Now I am really scared!
What a trick or treat!

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