If You Suffer From Aquaphobia, You Are Not Alone

If You Suffer From Aquaphonia, You Are Not Alone

This Is A Prevalent and Real Anxiety Disorder

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, approximately 18.1% of the adult population in America suffer from some type of phobia. Of all of the basic cases mentioned, aquaphobia is one of the largest sub types that individuals have.

The word aquaphobia derives from the Greek word hydrophobia, literally meaning “water fear.”  At one point the “hydro” was dropped and the Latin word aqua replaced it, hence, the word we get today that signifies light to high morbid fear of drowning or the water in general.

The levels of this anxiety disorder ranges from feeling uneasy about getting into any type of large body of water, like a pool, to being afraid to get into a bathtub.  In extreme cases, some individuals suffer a panic attack when they are splashed with a little bit of water.

Typically the root cause of aquaphobia is due to a bad experience in the past. There are many instances where a traumatic experience happened at a young age and the person it happened to was never able to move on from it.  This is why pushing children in the pool before they know how to swim or trying to force them into the water before they are ready can prove to be disastrous in the future.

How To Get Over Your Fear

In the most extreme cases a qualified therapist will be need to assist you with your anxiety disorder.  This is a real fear, despite what some others would have you believe, and treatment of it needs to be done by a trained physiological specialist. There are all kinds of exercises they will have to do that have proved to be highly successful.

The majority of individuals who suffer from aquaphobia, however, can benefit from having an experienced swim instructor teach them how to swim, at one’s own pace.  The process involves taking baby steps in order to get comfortable with being in water.

You need someone who will encourage you and give your positive feedback during your journey of getting rid of this fear.  Someone who is highly skilled at doing something is rarely afraid of it.  Likewise, as your develop proper swimming techniques you will begin to fell more comfortable in the water.

While there is no treatment that works 100% of the time, I have found that most adults start to love the water once they are gradually introduced to it and are taught proper swimming techniques.

I have also found that it is helpful to understand your past if you plan to get over your fear of the water. You need to attempt to find what started this fear in the first place.

Was your head held under the water resulting in you thinking for a brief moment you would drown? did you loose someone you loved in a traumatic drowning experience? or were you never properly introduced to the water at an early age that later on affected your comfort level with it?

Personally, I have been given the privilege to teach many adults how to swim.  Many of them came to me with an acute fear of being in the water.  Thankfully, they put their trust in me and I was able to help them conquer this phobia.

Many adults have avoided the water their whole life and only made it a point to overcome this fear when they had kids.  I was told by several adults well into their late 30s that they did not want to pass their fear of the water onto their children.

Remember that you can overcome this. I have witnessed many great success stories.  Do not let this fear haunt you for the rest of your life.  Take action now and make small steps every single day to accomplish your goal.  It might take a while but once you do, you might find that you actually love the water and will not be able to imagine the days when you avoided it.

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Even Adults Are Susceptible to Drowning

When people think about swimming lessons they mainly think about children.

There is the assumption that adults cannot drown.

This is simply not true.  Adults can die from drowning just like children can.

Are the percentages much lower?  Yes, they are.

Last year there were 41 drowning deaths in Texas (2nd behind Florida).

Adults who cannot swim are far less likely to be near or in the water because they are more aware of their own limitations.

Children, on the other hand, might play in the water without  having any prior knowledge of how to swim.

What's more, a child's friends who are the same age as him are far less likely to know what to do in an emergency situation versus the friends of a typical adult.

Nevertheless, there is no age at which a person IS NOT capable of drowning.

Last June, a woman named Marie Joseph died by drowning in a public pool.  She was 36 years old. Because of her dealth new safety precautions are being enacted in all the area's local public pools.

She didn't know how to swim.  She slid down the water slide, apparently thinking that area of the pool was more shallow than what is was.

It was twelve feet deep.  The water was cloudy and she slid in and never came up alive.

Just four days ago, an elderly man drowned in Cupsuptic Lake in Rangeley, Maine.

During the summer there are several news articles that pop up every single day about  an adult who drowned in small and large body of water.

The lesson: adults need to learn how to swim also.

Even if you are not a fan of the water learning how to swim is a great skill to learn.  You never know when you might be called to use it.  You might have to rescue someone else in the future.  It might be someone you know or a complete stranger.

Additionally, what kind of example are you setting for your children.  They notice more things than we think.  If their parents do not know how to swim then they might reason that its not important.

With our affordable packages there is no reason to put it off any longer.

In fact, why not start this week?

Call Feet2Fins at (713) 489-6133 and schedule your own private swimming lesson.

We come to you. You will be taught all the proper technique and mechanics of knowing how to swim.

Who knows, one day, what you learn might save your life or the life of another. The cost to learn is worth every single penny.

Feet2Fins
1901 Post Oak Park Dr. #7202
Houston, TX 77027

713-489-6133
feet2fins@gmail.com

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