“A phobia is an irrational
fear, a kind of anxiety disorder in which the sufferer has a relentless dread
of a situation, living creature, place or thing. Individuals with a phobia go
to great lengths to avoid a perceived danger which is much greater in their
minds than in real life. If confronted with the source of their phobia, the
person will suffer enormous distress, which can interfere with their normal
function; it can sometimes lead to total panic. For some people, even thinking
about their phobia is immensely distressing.” – According to Christian
Nordqvist (What is a phobia? What causes phobia?).
Do you know that people can have a fear of
color? People think it is just a fear like another but they don’t know how this
fear prevents many person in the world to live like others. Xanthophobia is a part
of the chromophobia which is the fear of yellow. It is more exactly the fear or
the aversion to the color yellow. With xanthophobia, the person can’t live
normally because she has a fear. No, it is more than a simple fear, she is
literally terrified of the color yellow. She can’t go out because the Sun is
yellow and she can’t watch TV because she will see yellow on the TV. This
person can’t have a real life. Our aim with this search is to explain the
causes, the symptoms, the consequences and the new ways to treat her. We can
have xanthophobia by many way. The religion and the culture of someone can influence
someone to be afraid by the color yellow. For example, Chinese are afraid of
yellow because in the past, if one received a yellow scarf, it was an imperial
order to commit suicide. Today yet, this fear remains in this country because
it is this culture’s tradition. The common cause of this phobia is traumatic experiences
involving the color yellow, like getting stung by a bee or even getting hit by
a yellow car or school bus. Xanthophobia, as the others phobias, is not
contagious.
As with any phobia, the symptoms vary by person
depending on their level of fear. Symptoms typically include extreme anxiety, dread
and anything associated with panic such as shortness of breath, rapid
breathing, irregular heartbeat, sweating, excessive sweating, dry mouth, nausea,
inability to articulate words or sentences, shaking and many others. This is a
deficiency oh the view who entail an irrational fear of the color yellow and
all which is of this color. In consequence, yellow reminds xanthophobes about
pain and in the unconscious level reminds them about the loss of life. When
xanthophobes encounter something yellow (like daffodils, gold, and yellow
pages), they may immediately close their eyes or panic in anxiety, depending on
the severity. For severe xanthopobes, even seeing or hearing the word yellow
can cause fright. Sufferers would not eat cheese, mustard, lemonade, bananas,
egg yolk, and anything that is yellow. They may also close their eyes and hold
their breaths when urinating (Xanthophobia Information, What are the
symptoms?). The xanthopobes’ life is really difficult because they can’t do the
same things that us because they are afraid of the color yellow.
Xanthophobia is not just a fear, sufferers have
adapted his life’s style to this phobia. Also, the person who suffers from
xanthophobia are not different of us, they got just a problem which doesn’t
prevent there to be like us. Next time, if you see a person who has xanthophobia
don’t laugh at them because you can be at their place.
