Facing Your Phobias

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Facing Your Phobias
By Wendi Fink
http//www.abcnews.go.com
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A phobia is more severe than just having a fear
of something.
Phobia is defined as an irrational or excessive
level of fear
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The new Technology of Virtual Reality is now a
way for you to face your worst Phobias.
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The Point of All of this?

• Make experience as real as possible
• Give feel of a safe environment
• Real encounters yield effective outcomes

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For treatment to work
Provokes anxiety and fear that is present in real
world
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To make the experience real add

• Touch
• Music

Both add to the sensory and auditory sensations
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A controlled environment
No fear situation completely under control.
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Some Results

• Patients cut the fear in half
• Now can face fear with confidence
• Many treated are cured completely

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Then and Now

• Used to gradually introduce to phobias.
• Now get the realistic experience dealing with
  phobia
• more relaxed and more success

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Common Phobias
Arachnophobia
Claustrophobia
Glossophobia
Ichthyophobia
Kakorrhaphiophobia
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