There are times of the year when people feel more depressed, more sensitive and vulnerable to the various situations in which they find themselves. Many of these situations can occur due to changes over time.

Various factors such as the hours of light at the end of the day, the changes of season, if the day is sunnier or less are responsible for some affective disorders in people. They are called seasonal affective disorders and usually affect more or less 15% of the population. However, this is more common, but there is a smaller percentage of the population that expresses some type of panic or terror before certain meteorological phenomena that occur in the seasons of the year. Are the calls weather phobias

Weather phobias

For example, there is a type of meteorological phobia, which for most people is a case of tremendous beauty or a romantic situation for couples, such as the fear of the full moon (selenophobia). Other phobias that are also strange and that for most people are of beauty and admiration is fear of the dawn (eosophobia) and the northern lights (auroraphobia).

Mar Gomez, is a meteorologist for The time is and has explained some of the psychological disorders these people experience. What for everyone is beautiful and admirable, for these people is a cause for anxiety. Normally, this fear is motivated by some reason that leads the individual to experience these situations of true anxiety. Therefore, Mar recommends that people who suffer from this type of phobia put themselves in the hands of specialists and never try to face this type of disorder alone.

Symptoms in people who suffer from it

To recognize someone who suffers from this type of phobia, various studies and investigations have been carried out by psychologists and therapists. These phobias are usually accompanied by episodes of alteration or tachycardia. In general, the person who suffers from it feels their heart beat faster, begins to sweat significantly and this leads to palpitations that can become dangerous to health.

The problem with these phobias, like many others, is that they are usually carried in secret. Most people are ashamed to comment and explain their phobias to other people for fear of teasing or non-acceptance of others. That is why these problems are not well known. It is likely that due to this widespread ignorance, the number of people who suffer from these phobias is greater than known.

La meteorosensitivity, named above, is related to changes in the season, hours of sunlight, etc. That causes changes in people's moods. They affect 15% of the population and are usually more common. There are also some meteorological phenomena responsible for certain physical pathologies such as pain in the joints, muscles, migraines and others.

Main causes of weather phobias

Among them is the hereditary. If a mother or father has it, there is a chance that the next generation will also have it. They also exist due to some type of trauma in the life of the person associated with a bad experience on days of heavy rain, wind, or full moon.

Most of these phobias occur at a fairly young age, around five years and the most common are fear of the full moon, lightning, heavy rain or storms. The latter are a bit conditioned by the cinema. In most horror movies, in the scary and tense scenes the landscape is dark, with the full moon, or lightning.

Therapies for these people

In order to treat these phobias, there are various therapies. Among them is cognitive therapy. It consists of the patient receiving from the specialized personnel all the information about the phenomenon that they are afraid of, so that in this way, the patient can see it as something harmless and see their phobia as something irrational.

Another is gradual exposure therapy in which the patient gradually approaches the meteorological phenomenon in question, having situations in which he experiences it in person. For example, if you are afraid of lightning, gradually move to the side of the window to visualize it while feeling protected and safe.