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** Who? ** The people that this phobia effects. 3. **What I want to know (research questions):** 4. **My research strategy:**
 * What I already know:**
 * What? ** The fear of relatives.
 * Where? ** Anywhere in the world.
 * When? ** Modern day, past and future.
 * Why? ** They might have bad past expiriences with family, or maybe they watched a scarring movie.
 * How? ** This has to do with your brain and your body and only a very small percentage of the people in the world have this phobia so I have no idea.
 * Who? ** Is this more common with people from big families or small families?
 * What? ** What kinds of ages does this range from?
 * Where?** Where is this phobia originated?
 * When? ** How long has this been a real fear?
 * Why? ** Is there a reason people would have this fear maybe from expirience?
 * How? ** How can one get this phobia?
 * Who?** I can ask Mrs. Cato and Mrs. Brem for good webisites to research.
 * What? ** Expert websites, databases, encyclopedias, books, textbook.
 * When? ** During class or outside of class if needed.
 * Where? ** The CTMS library, my house, a public library.
 * How? ** I'll look up Syngenesophobia, make sure they are realiable sources and take notes on what I find.
 * Key words for searching (to be used in search engines):** Syngenesophobia, phobias, phobia, fear, "fear of relatives", "fear of family". The quotation marks are important because the search engine treats the content inside the quotation marks as a phrase. The "and" is important because the search engine will only pull up results with both of those words or phrases.


 * __//RESEARCH://__**

** SYNGENESOPHOBIA- ** The fear of relatives. Symptoms- breathlessness, excessive sweating, dry mouth, nausea, feeling sick, shaking, heart palpitations, inability to speak or think clearly, a fear of losing control, a sensation of detachment from reality or a full blown anxiety attack. Most sufferers are surprised to learn that they are far from alone in this surprisingly common, although often unspoken, phobia. While adults with Syngenesophobia realize that these fears are irrational, they often find that facing, or even thinking about facing, the feared situation brings on a panic attack or severe anxiety. Hypnotherapy helps to reprogram your subconscious "programs" that may be part of your fear. When these programs are "de-bugged" the symptoms of Syngenesophobia often are minimized. However, some people don't like the feeling of loss of control in allowing someone else to play with their personal "software". http://www.phobia-fear-release.com/syngenesophobia.html Phobias are an unreasonable fear, one that you can't control even. But you can find help. [] Syngenesophobia, from the latin root //gen// (race, family, kind) and //syn// (together, with), is irrational fear, anxiety or uncomfortability around family members or persons in similar positions (overbearing older sister.) Such a phobia can develop through loss of connection with family members, generation gap, or simple uneasiness or loss of trust. Examples could include not wanting to go on a family outing, or if one is forced or reluctantly agrees, feels out of place and awkward in the said situation. http://en.allexperts.com/e/s/sy/syngenesophobia.htm It comes down to **redirecting your unconscious mind**. On the surface, you know your syngenesophobia is illogical. But it has persisted because your subconscious has attached the idea of relatives to all those negative emotions. http://changethatsrightnow.com/syngenesophobia/

The paper:

Syngenesophobia is the fear of relatives. This is a real, serious fear, but there are ways to treat it and get over it. One way people use is hypnotherapy which takes control and changes your subconscious thoughts. According to phobia-fear-release.com, some people prefer not to use hypnotherapy though because “they don’t like the feeling of loss of control in allowing someone else to play with their personal ‘software’” Some symptoms of Syngenesophobia are dry mouth, excessive sweating, nausea, fear of losing control, inability to think or speak clearly, detachment to reality, and full blown panic attacks. Syngenesophobia is actually a common fear, though many people would think otherwise. Adults realize this fear is irrational, but it’s in your subconscious mind so they can’t control it, therefore causing serious relationship problems and separation in many families. ( http://changethatsrightnow.com/syngenesophobia/) The word //Syngenesophobia// comes from the Latin roots //gen// (meaning family, race, or kind) and //syn// (meaning together). ( http://en.allexperts.com/e/s/sy/syngenesophobia.htm ) This phobia can affect you in your immediate family (parents, siblings), but can also effect your relationship with grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. There are many different degrees of this phobia though. Some people just feel awkward and out of place at family outings, while others get some of the more severe symptoms shown above.

***Please see Mrs. Brem*** (5/14/10)