Televisiophobia

Televisiophobia is the fear of watching television. It is considered a branch of mediaphobia. The fear is tendingly caused by children who get scared by the television, like showing horrific events on the news. If the family member turns the TV on, the suffer would go to a room where sounds from that TV is hardly heard. Severe sufferers would not be in the place where there are television sets. If the severe sufferer want to stay in the home, all the television sets shall be removed from the home.

Symptoms may panic, heart palpations, breathlessness, tembling, and sense of impending doom. This phobia may cause other phobias to develop, like thanatophobia (fear of death) because deaths are often mentioned on television. It is treated using relaxation stragedies,, , , s, and. Talk therapy involves telling patients that watching television is highly useful for entertainment and learn from it, like important events around the world. It also tell patients that television sets are not only used for watching TV, but also for playing video games and replaying videos shot from the camera. Exposure therapy involves patients to watch television, starting with very calm show with no bad events portrayed in it and working the way up slowly.