Most people are not interested in spending too much time outside when it is really cold but there are some people in the world that are absolutely terrified of extreme cold. This fear is called cryophobia and it is considered to be an illogical fear of extreme cold, frost or ice.
It is impossible to know how many people suffer from cryophobia since there are many places in the world where you could avoid extremely cold weather. The only way to understand the fear is to get a better grasp of the symptoms that the person would experience, how to diagnosis the fear and the treatments used to cure the phobia.
Knowing how the person came to fear the extreme cold is not always easy to find out but there has been speculation that the inability to control how cold the temperature will get could be a major factor. Whenever a cryophobe is faced with the extreme cold they experience symptoms of panic, terror, rapid heart rate, shortness of breath, shaking, anxiety and doing whatever necessary to stay away from the extreme cold. Since most of these symptoms are comparable to other phobias it can lead to an accidental misdiagnosis.
It is important to realize that just being afraid of really cold weather is not enough to be considered a person that suffers from cryophobia. A cryophobic must avoid extremely cold weather at all costs even if it seems absolutely silly to do so.
A fear of extreme cold can not be correctly diagnosed until the person is faced with what they fear and it is obvious that are truly terrified. One way to determine if a person is cryophobic is to try and get them to step into a large freezer. Just the thought of extreme cold inside of that freezer will induce a fear so great that the person will start to experience the symptoms mentioned above.
There are many treatments for phobias but so far only two of them have been proven effective. The use of introducing the fear in small increments to the patient has helped but it can take a long time to conclude the treatment. Since the patient is allowed to work at their comfort level the treatment can take months or years to complete. The most successful treatment for a phobia is Hypnotherapy. This treatment requires the patient to be unconscious while the hypnotherapist performs exercises that utilizes the subconscious of the patient to conquer their fear.
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