{"id":352,"date":"2014-11-30T14:44:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T14:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.normanclaringbull.co.uk\/?p=352"},"modified":"2014-11-30T14:44:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T14:44:47","slug":"blog-post-december-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/normanclaringbull.onplexaweb.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/11\/30\/blog-post-december-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post &#8211; December 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEATING ANXIETY: Part 3:<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, sometimes our anxiety and fear levels are so deeply entrenched, and so overwhelmingly incapacitating, that simply managing them, (see last month\u2019s Blog), is not enough. For instance, somebody might be so frightened or so uncomfortable about being in an enclosed space that using a lift or travelling on an aircraft might be an impossibility. Someone else might be so excessively fearful of heights that even standing on a low stool is beyond them. <a href=\"https:\/\/normanclaringbull.onplexaweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cartoon-Car-3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-353\" src=\"https:\/\/normanclaringbull.onplexaweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Cartoon-Car-3-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Cartoon-Car-3\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><!--more-->Of course the degree to which any fear or phobia interferes with a sufferer\u2019s life depends on circumstances. So, for example, an overwhelming level of anxiety about eating in public might not trouble a recluse but it would certainly incapacitate a restaurant critic. There are many, many, kinds of fears, worries, and phobias that have the potential to impact on our lives in all sorts of damaging ways. In some of these cases, simply containing or managing the problem might not be enough. It needs to be eradicated, or at least reduced, to tolerable proportions. Fortunately, many of these more deeply embedded, more debilitating anxiety states respond well to a psychological treatment method known as \u2018Desensitisation\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Important note: Desensitisation is not a recommended treatment for the anxiety condition known as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Incorrectly applied Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy techniques, (including Desensitisation), can actually exacerbate OCD symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>I can probably show you best how Desensitisation works with an illustrative, (anonymised), case study. This is Mary\u2019s story:<\/p>\n<p>Mary was the front seat passenger in a car that was being driven by her friend Jane. They had just left Mary\u2019s house and were on their way to the local sports centre to play basketball. Both women were keen club players in the County League. For some unknown reason, Jane lost control of her vehicle and it crashed into the verge. The car ended up impaled on a low hanging branch of a very large tree. This branch, acting like a giant spear, had penetrated the car through the front screen. It would have skewered Mary too had Jane\u2019s car not come to a halt just in the nick of time. Jane herself was unharmed and clambered out safely but the Fire Brigade had a difficult job freeing Mary. All the time the firefighters were struggling to get her out, Mary was terrified that the car might slip forward and that the \u2018spear\u2019 might kill her. She knew that she was in real danger and that her life was being seriously threatened. As a result of her terrifying experience Mary developed a phobia about car travel \u2013 she was unable to even consider just sitting in a car. Whenever she tried to do so she experienced an extreme panic attack. This inability to travel by car seriously impacted on Mary\u2019s life generally and made it very difficult, even impossible for her to get to work, go into town, travel to basketball matches, and so on. The potential long-term consequences for Mary\u2019s career, social life, sporting life, indeed for her life generally, didn\u2019t bear thinking about. She needed help and she needed it fast.<\/p>\n<p>Mary and her therapist discussed the various psychological treatment options available. Together they decided that the method known as \u2018Hierarchical Desensitisation\u2019 might be their \u2018treatment of choice\u2019. This is what they did:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEATING ANXIETY: Part 3: Unfortunately, sometimes our anxiety and fear levels are so deeply entrenched, and so overwhelmingly incapacitating, that simply managing them, (see last month\u2019s Blog), is not enough. 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