Intense Phobias

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Trevor_Johnson]Trevor Johnson
Phobias are bad enough at the best of times. But when they turn from a "regular" phobia into an intense phobia, they're really bad news. So what - if anything - can you do to overcome an intense phobia and get back to normality or at least something close to normality?
Break up your phobia
Chances are that if your intense phobia is really big then it's made up of a lot of smaller component fears. In much the same way as a car or a cell phone isn't just one amorphous mass but is made up of lots of smaller bits.
Pretend that you're back in school in a biology lesson and lay your problem out on the desk or table in front of you. This is probably best done on a piece of paper or a computer screen.
Then split it out into minute detail.
So if you have a fear of public speaking that might break down into things like: standing up in front of a group of people; reading your speech without tripping over things too often; dealing with computer glitches when the slides don't move as they id when you rehearsed; dealing with unexpected (or even expected) questions from your audience; and so on.
There's an outside chance that even this small exercise will dissipate your fear. But that's not the most likely outcome.
It's more likely that you will look at the individual parts that are ganging up on you and think "they're not too bad on their own, but when they're all in the same place that's different".
Which is a perfectly normal reaction.
Bully the weakest parts of your intense phobia
In normal life, bullying obviously isn't a good choice.
But we're dealing with an intense situation here and that calls for intense measures.
Fears are - by their very nature - quite fragile things once you get under their skin.
So bullying - or working on - your fears away is quite acceptable and actually works a treat.
Just like happened in the playground, pick on the weakest link first. Then chip away at its edges until it begins to dissolve.
Do the same with the next weakest component of your phobia.
And keep doing this for the next few days or weeks.
You'll be pleasantly surprised how well this works.
If you're currently at the top end of the scale - a ten on a 1 to 10 measure for instance - then chipping away at the edges may only nudge it down slightly. Maybe imperceptibly at first.
But keep working on it and you'll gradually knock it back to "only" a 9 rating.
And keep working on it some more.
Because once you get your intense fear down to a fairly regular score of around 5 out of 10, it will do the rest of the work itself. Which sounds weird at first but works brilliantly near enough all the time.
If you're still skeptical, try it on a nervous fear to start with - one that's only part way up the scale - and see how it melts into the background with very little help from you.
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