How to treat children’s phobia?

In fact, everyone has a timid side. Even a big man will have things he is afraid of. This is actually easy to explain on a psychological level. Phobias are not common in life, but they do exist. Friends who suffer from this disease suffer mental torture every day and dare not do this or that. If you want to treat it, you must start from the psychological aspect. So, how to treat children's phobia?

1. Drug perception treatment is not given

Western medicine has cured phobias thanks to drug treatment. The main risk is the use of anti-anxiety agents, which are intended to eliminate the patient's anxiety, tension, and mood. Commonly recommended drugs include alprazolam, estazolam, nitrazepam, clonazepam, etc. As for social phobia, the drugs that have proven to be effective are phenelzine, tranylcypromine, and moclobemide. Serotonin inhibitor antidepressants such as paroxetine are quite good and have been recognized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as effective drugs for this disease. German tricyclic antidepressants have been used in the treatment of phobias and have been reported, but the effects have not been clearly concluded so far.

Due to the current clinical reports that the methods of drug treatment vary, there is no very unified standard for reference. Therefore, in the process of drug use, more consideration should be given to the patient's actual situation. Only by fully estimating the patient's tolerance to various drug tolerances can better results be achieved.

The treatment method that doctors have begun to adopt is: small-dose maintenance and temporary administration. This means giving patients a small amount of medication in their daily lives and increasing the dosage when they encounter fear or predict that a fear attack is about to occur.

In addition, the combined use of antianxiety drugs and antidepressants is also more common in clinical practice. Some people believe that combined use has better therapeutic effects. Antidepressants can relieve inferiority complex and improve stress resistance; antianxiety drugs can reduce situational anxiety and dilute the concept of fear.

2. Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is the most thoroughly researched and effective treatment for phobias.

a Cognitive Therapy

The doctor must first help the patient build confidence in treatment, analyze the object of fear, point out the reason for the fear, and it is because of the lack of cognitive reflection. If you want to overcome fear, you must first know it. You must help the patient dig out the root cause of "fear", understand the content of "fear", calculate the degree of "fear", and measure the probability of "fear". Only in this way can the patient correctly evaluate his position in the environment. This method can also be called "personal positioning method."

b Systematic desensitization

This is currently considered the safest and most effective behavioral therapy for treating phobias. In this method, the doctor sets a "step" fear value and gradually exposes the patient to the things and places that cause fear. The patient's senses are gradually stimulated, and the fear level of the stimulation is gradually reduced, eventually achieving complete disappearance of symptoms. This method is relatively mild and easy for patients to accept. The disadvantage is that the treatment time is long and the effect is slow.

c. Exposure therapy

This is a progressive behavioral therapy method. On the basis of certain psychological counseling, this method suddenly places the patient in front of the feared object or in a place so that he cannot escape, thereby stimulating an extreme reaction in his heart. After the stimulation, the patient is not actually harmed by the feared object, thereby establishing an understanding of the feared object and eliminating the fear psychology. The advantage of this method is that the disease is cured quickly. The disadvantage is that the patient must have certain physical conditions, otherwise the patient will be overly frightened and faint. Therefore, when conducting exposure therapy, certain rescue knowledge and certain rescue equipment must be equipped.

In addition, some people use drug hypnosis or even direct hypnosis for treatment, which also has certain effects, but the clinical conditions required are relatively high and generally difficult to implement.