How to overcome the fear of mice

You can try to adjust your mentality in the following ways:

1, fear is a kind of self-awareness. To overcome fear, we must start with the causes of fear. Look for the reason.

If there are no mice at home or in the living environment, there will be no fear. This problem can be solved by effective control measures to prevent rodents from moving indoors.

3. If you don't understand mice, you will be overly afraid. For example, mice can bite people, mice can carry germs, and mice can bite bad things. These are all facts, but the facts have a certain foundation. For example, rats will take the initiative to bite when there is no food or a large number, but more often, when we catch rats with our bare hands, rats will fight back and be bitten. In fact, the mouse is very timid, "as timid as a mouse." So we need to know them so that we won't be too scared.

Finally, to sum up: self-knowledge, control and understanding.

Reasons for people's fear:

Most people are afraid when they see animals such as snakes or spiders. Studies show that this fear of human beings was formed in the process of evolution. This phenomenon can be traced back to very distant ancient times, when the earth was ruled by various reptiles. Early mammals had to take preventive measures to survive and reproduce, because many reptiles that looked terrible were indeed fatal.

Arne Ochman, a psychologist in Stockholm, Sweden, said that at that time, in an environment full of crisis and danger, when human ancestors saw those reptiles, their brains must be on high alert and their mood must be very tense. Maybe this is the origin of fear.

Hochmann participated in the research on why humans are afraid of snakes and spiders. Interestingly, the scholar said that he was also afraid of snakes, spiders and other animals when he was a child. Research shows that in the process of evolution, human beings will pay special attention to things that will pose a threat to themselves, and the emotional response is fear.

Joseph Le dukes, a professor of neuroscience and psychology at new york University, said that the research results of Hochmann and his colleagues have been widely recognized in the scientific community. He said that the stimulating factors that frightened early humans were obviously deeply rooted in the human subconscious, because snakes and spiders were always dangerous to our ancestors.

Hochmann's experiment went like this: Many subjects were college students majoring in psychology. They sat in a soundproof room, facing the computer screen, which kept playing various slide pictures.

The subject has a remote control switch in his hand. When they recognize pictures of snakes and spiders, or pictures of mushrooms and fresh flowers, they press the switch. The researchers recorded the reaction time of subjects when various pictures appeared. The researchers found that the subjects seemed to have an instinctive quick response to some terrible pictures.

In related experiments, people who fill in the questionnaire with "fear of snakes and spiders" can distinguish horror pictures much faster than other pictures. Researchers say that it is this quick response ability of nature that enables human beings to avoid things that scare them in time.

Hochmann said that whether the fear of snakes or spiders in mammals is related to the evolutionary process (only 0. 1% of the 35,000 spiders in the world are poisonous) or human fears need more research, one thing is certain, that is, human fears of snakes are obviously influenced by the evolutionary process. He said: "Mammals have been attacked by snakes many times in the long process of evolution. Individuals who are good at identifying and avoiding the danger from snakes obviously have more chances of survival than those who cannot effectively avoid the danger from snakes. "

In addition to fear of snakes or spiders, there are all kinds of strange-sounding phobias, such as claustrophobia, mouse phobia, lightning phobia, acrophobia, fear of riding or taking a boat, airplane phobia, bacterial phobia, night blindness, water phobia and so on. In a sense, they can also be regarded as a special disease.

Imagine what kind of panic people who are afraid of lightning will fall into when it thunders. And people with car phobia are afraid to drive on the road and have to drive. How scared will they be? For a person who is afraid of spiders, snakes and even clowns who appear at children's birthday parties, it is really impossible for them to face the world easily. All kinds of phobias may originate from psychological trauma in childhood, or may be abnormalities in a certain part of the brain, or even related to human evolution.

Hochmann said: "When we are afraid, our heart beats faster, so that we can lose blood to the parts we need more quickly;" Our breathing will be heavier to get more oxygen to supply the muscle tissue of the body; We also sweat, lower our body temperature, and react more efficiently. "People with various phobias will have strong fears even when the danger does not exist, and some people will even die in extreme fear.

Scientists study the origin of fear and some phenomena of extreme fear, analyze the psychology of some phobia patients, reveal how a person's fear will have a great impact on his life, and how we should control all kinds of fears, which is of great significance for people to overcome all kinds of phobias.

Wendy Black, an American woman, lived with acrophobia all her life, and her acrophobia even reached a ridiculous level. When she is in playing tag with the children, even a small slide will make her feel scared. Her daily life can be said to be living in fear. Standing on high escalators or long stairs will make her too scared to move. She said: "Phobia has affected my self-esteem. It's really terrible to see people around me coming and going calmly, and I can only fall behind. " One of Wendy's sons later recalled that once their family went hiking and passed a small bridge without handrails, "Mom insisted that we all climb across the bridge on the ground because she was afraid that we would fall into the river."

Later, with the help of Anthony, a famous American psychologist, Wendy Black began to fight against acrophobia. Anthony's method is called "cognitive therapy". First, she was guided through a small ladder and gradually increased the height of the ladder. In the past, this was obviously something she didn't dare to do, but with the guidance and help of the doctor, Wendy finally overcame her fear of heights, and now she can even climb to the top of a tall tower.

The phobia of patients is different from that of ordinary people. Experts put forward such a question for discussion: why are some people able to take it calmly in the face of the same situation, while others are very scared? Among calm people, many people often face many dangers in their daily work, such as firefighters, construction workers in high-rise buildings, scientists who study snakes and spiders, and photographers who specialize in lightning.

However, for the survivors of some tragic events, no matter whether they are originally phobia patients or not, those experiences will leave them with painful and terrible memories, such as building collapse, lightning strike, plane crash, being bitten by snakes or spiders, which will affect people's life. On the other hand, it is a process of evolution, but some people are lighter and some people are heavier.