For the last few days, the story of Vikas Dubey, a youth from Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh, is going viral on the internet. Actually, Vikas Dubey claimed that in the last 40 days, he was bitten by a snake 7 times. However, now something else has come out in the medical examination.
Actually, the Health Department says that Vikas was bitten by a snake only once. The feeling of snake bite that he felt the rest of the 6 times was due to snake phobia. Let us now tell you what snake phobia is and how people suffering from snake phobia repeatedly feel that they have been bitten by a snake or the snake will bite them.
What is snake phobia
Before understanding snake phobia, you should understand phobia. Phobia is a type of mental illness that creates fear about something in a person’s mind. Understand it like this, if someone is afraid of high places, then as soon as he goes to a high place, he will feel that he will fall down now, or someone will push him from such a height.
Snake phobia also happens in a similar way. That is, if a person has snake phobia, then he will be afraid of snakes everywhere. He will see even a rope like a snake. If something pricks a patient with snake phobia, then he will feel that he has been bitten by a snake. Something similar was happening with Vikas Dubey as well. When his mental condition was examined, it was found that he has become a victim of snake phobia.
There are many other types of phobias
Different people have different types of phobias. If a person has claustrophobia, then he will not be able to stay in a closed place. Whenever he goes into a closed or narrow place, he will feel that he is suffocating.
Similarly, a person who has agoraphobia is afraid of going to open places or crowded places. Such people feel that if they stay in an open place or a crowded place, someone will harm them.
The third is zoophobia. This is seen in many people. People who have zoophobia are afraid of animals. It is not necessary that they are afraid only of lion or cheetah, they are also afraid of cats and dogs, even if a rat comes in front of them, they get so scared as if they have seen a lion.
