Dental Phobia
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- Опубликовано: 3 янв 2019
- Phobias are usually fears of association. For many, something bad may not have actually happened (although it certainly may have) yet we associate feelings of anxiety, fear, distress, and disgust to particular stimuli. In order to overcome it, you have to incrementally break the associations to prove to yourself and your brain that you are SAFE-despite feeling bad.
I didn’t realize this was going to be geared for parents with a child. I’m an adult with dental phobia, thus this wasn’t helpful at all for me.
Hi Kevin.
I just wanted to thank you for sharing this video. I do not have a child who is anxious. I am however, very terrified of the dentist. I have been looking around everywhere online for literally weeks about overcoming my extreme phobia. Your video here was the first one that really spoke to me though. The part where you said "...you're not in danger so your body doesn't have to respond as though it is." It changed my line of reasoning. You have given me hope. I may be able to face my fear and start making appointments.
Thank you so much!
Hey Kevin!! It would bee great for you to do a video on I don’t know if you could do it, but this was a fear when I was little. Now 40 years old and I laugh at this a lot of course, but I when i was a kid was afraid of cuckoo clocks. I am blind and totally blind as a bat. But it would bee so cool to do a fear on this. Thank God I got over it when I was in the fifth grade, but I still remember this like it was yesterday. Hahahaha!!!! I tell people about what my fear was and they could understand why because maybe the unusual sound and not seeing the clock... it would bee great to do a video of this sometime.... now of course, as an adult I can hear cuckoo clocks of course and just sit their and go “Oh that is just a clock.” But when I was little I couldn’t do it. I was screaming bloody murder and woke the whole house up in the middle of the night when I heard the thing.... yea... great memories right???? Now at 40 I would look back at my child self and go “Hey their is nothing to bee afraid of. It is just a clock.” But yea. It would bee interesting to see if you can make a video of this. Well, in time, of course I did get over that fear... I also had a fear of balloons. Not now of course hahaha!!! But when I was a kid. So cuckoo clocks and balloons were my fear. Now I look at them like anyone else hahaha!!!! I laugh at these fears that i was so deathly afraid of now, hahahaha and think it is pretty darn funny, but back then no!!! Hahahaha!!!! I think with the balloons it was the popping and not knowing when they would bee popping and the sound of the squeaking. Also,,,,,, the shapes.... yea..... unfamiliar shapes of balloons like the bumpy ones or long ones were ones I screamed bloody murder over. Well, now as an adult of course I would look back and tell my child self “their is nothing to bee afraid of.” It would bee interesting to see if you have a video on fears like this to help others.