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The cause of all
types of phobias
Many phobias are caused by a sensitizing
experience in which the individual has a near mishap. Example, one client
bit into a steak and got stuck with a needle that somehow was left in the
steak. From that day on he had a fear of eating meat. The thought of eating
meat made him gag.
Many
of us as youngsters had a frightening experience with getting an inoculation
and from that time forth were phobic with needles.
Many
of us nearly lost our balance while climbing developed a fear of heights or
bridges.
Whenever our intelligent brain perceives a threat to our existence, it
prepares us to fight or run--the fight/flight. This is normal and healthy.
However, our conscious mind gets involved and begins to wonder what would
happen if we fell while climbing, swallowed the needle in the steak, or felt
a lot of pain while getting an inoculation and before you know it, the
thought, conscious or unconscious brings on the fear response.
Another
cause of phobias is what I call "catching a suggestion," i.e.,
someone tells of a hear mishap or of someone else's mishap which caused
extreme hurt or loss of life. When you find yourself in a similar
situation you remember the mishap and begin to wonder how it could happen to
you. Before you know it, because of your over concern or worry, you create a
near mishap yourself and end up giving birth to a phobia. A scary movie can
have the same affect.
Sometimes,
some fears are very much like superstition in which case, they generally are
a compulsion and provide the value of secondary gain, i.e. as long as the
person is fighting the phobia, he/she doesn't have to deal with other
disappointments in life. In this case, the phobia is an excuse for lack of
social, financial, professional success and so on. Once this is verified,
the treatment is shifted to he methods of learning to overcome
anxiety.
The
common Thread:
All
phobias are irrational. In other words, if we reduce the fear to simple
words, it means that the phobic is interrupting the object of the fears as a
threat to his/her life. In other words, we never hear of a bridge capturing
someone and killing them, or an airplane attacking its passengers, or a
needle planting itself in a steak to kill the person dinning on the steak,
or the closet squeezing one to death..,
Treatment
of all types of phobias--the phobia clinic.
The most effective approach to dealing
with phobias is to seek medical help and counseling simultaneously.
Your physician will prescribe something like valium, zanex, or zolof.
Let's not get confused. We're
not just talking about simple butterflies in the tummy, this is the kind of
anxiety that completely debilitates the sufferer. It forces him/her to pass
up promotions at work because the promotion, for instance, may involve
traveling over a bridge which is a no--no. There are over 100
different recognized phobias. Psychologist often treat them with
psychotherapy or flooding (exposing the client direct to the fear producing
stimulus, i.e. throwing the person who is afraid of water into a swimming
pool; hypnotists with age regression; psychiatrists with meds. And
then there's those--perhaps in the same profession as those mentioned
above--who move in a productive direction utilizing a form of desensitization.
This program combines hypnotic desensitization
with a cognitive shift that
frees the phobic from the conditioned reaction in relatively a few number of
sessions. The only thing missing on this tape is the biofeedback instrument
used which is really a fool proof feedback tool for the counselor/therapist.
The program begins by having
the person suffering from the phobia/s changing the name of it from phobia
to a problem--problems have solutions. Then a hierarchy is established, i.e.
a list of ten steps where the person accesses the level of anxiety
associated with each step from a place where he/she is perfectly relaxed to
where he/she feels 100% anxiety.
Next, the client through a
cognitive shift learns how to shift from feeling like he/she is his/her own
worst enemy to her/his best friend. He/she gains a full comprehension of the
fear (fight/flight) response so it can work for him/her instead of against
him/her.
This is the one program that
makes freeing one from phobias an a, b, c experience, i.e., you do this,
that, and the end result is freedom.
All in all, everyone is
different. One out of 30 people who listen to this program just once free
themselves of anxiety as if by magic. With all that they've done, the
program is the catalyst that makes it all make sense. But don't expect it to
work that way for you. You may not be that far along the path or have been
going in the wrong direction and it may take a few weeks with a supportive
counselor to put it all together for yourself.
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Fear of public
speaking and social
anxieties are also phobic reactions. Even though the technique is very
similar, both of these phobias warrant their own programs.
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