Your views on reverse conditioning?
Question:
::I came across this article. Please read it with an open mind and let me ::have your views: <gently snipped Dear Sunlil, I know exactly what the author is talking about, but I call it ‘association’. It helped to create my avoidance behavior. After having a bad panic attack in the supermarket, I started to avoid all supermarkets because I associated panic with supermarkets. Eventually, this happened with all types of stores, driving, doctor’s offices, family and friend’s homes, and in my own home as well. Cognitive behavioral therapy showed me that my panic attacks had nothing to do with where I was, or what I was doing at the time. It was then I realized that I didn’t really fear the stores, or other places, I feared the panic and anxiety itself. Just last week…. I had some kind of attack at Dunkin Donuts. I wasn’t feeling well at the time, so I knew that played a big role in the attack. Just to make sure that I wouldn’t associate the panic with the store, I’ve gone back a few times since…. just to prove to myself that store didn’t cause my panic, and to get an iced coffee 
The attack at the store is now a distant memory…. and had been replaced with more positive visits. Jackie ~*~Put on Your Big Girl Panties and Deal with it~*~ — The charter is available at: http://readystump.algebra.com/~asapm
Response:
Hi, Sunil, I found the article interesting. Earlier this summer I had heard of the terminology excess adrenaline and had lightly read some information. I’ve never heard of taking glycerine before so that’s new to me. The article is informative and especially the part that associates the anxiety with the trigger to what you are doing or where you are at when it occurs. Personally, this could be part of my driving phobia. I have had such white knuckled driving experiences while I was alone on the highway/interstate that it frightened me too much to attempt doing it again. The diet and exercise are always important factors in anxiety. They may not "cure" it but seem to make one less prone to a full fledged attack vs. only having some excess anxiety which, hopefully, their meds are capable of controlling. smiles, Elise
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi, I came across this article. Please read it with an open mind and let me have your views: It is excess adrenaline that is responsible for the sudden anxiety attacks coming from within the body. Thus anxiety is a fear response without an external object of fear also known as ‘floating anxiety’. Very often the mind invents an object by a process that psychologists call ‘reverse conditioning’, whereby any random object in the environment is paired to a powerful emotional response. The environmental cue becomes the stimulus (the cause of) for the fear response. This can also be demonstrated if we inject a rat with adrenaline and it will develop a fear at any innocuous object in its cage. It might even bite you. Thus if you have an anxiety attack and you happen to be in a lift, then the lift may become a trigger for anxiety at a subsequent event. This Reverse conditioning or the pairing of an external stimulus with a fear response may be seen as the mechanism by which a person develops a phobia. That stimulus then becomes the trigger for the fear response. http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/beating_anxiety.html Thanks, Sunil — The charter is available at: http://readystump.algebra.com/~asapm
– The charter is available at: http://readystump.algebra.com/~asapm
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Hi, I came across this article. Please read it with an open mind and let me have your views: It is excess adrenaline that is responsible for the sudden anxiety attacks coming from within the body. Thus anxiety is a fear response without an external object of fear also known as ‘floating anxiety’. Very often the mind invents an object by a process that psychologists call ‘reverse conditioning’, whereby any random object in the environment is paired to a powerful emotional response. The environmental cue becomes the stimulus (the cause of) for the fear response. This can also be demonstrated if we inject a rat with adrenaline and it will develop a fear at any innocuous object in its cage. It might even bite you. Thus if you have an anxiety attack and you happen to be in a lift, then the lift may become a trigger for anxiety at a subsequent event. This Reverse conditioning or the pairing of an external stimulus with a fear response may be seen as the mechanism by which a person develops a phobia. That stimulus then becomes the trigger for the fear response. http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/beating_anxiety.html Thanks, Sunil — The charter is available at: http://readystump.algebra.com/~asapm
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sunnyindy schreef: Hi, I came across this article. Please read it with an open mind and let me have your views:
Apart from the fact that there is more to an anxiety disorder than "excess adrenaline" the article is right about the way we sensitize ourselves to places that have no objective fearful stimulus. Because this is so we can also *desensitize* (de-condition ourselves, by way of *gradual exposure to situational triggers*) as we learn in CBT. Are there CBT-therapists in Mumbai? Philip – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – It is excess adrenaline that is responsible for the sudden anxiety attacks coming from within the body. Thus anxiety is a fear response without an external object of fear also known as ‘floating anxiety’. Very often the mind invents an object by a process that psychologists call ‘reverse conditioning’, whereby any random object in the environment is paired to a powerful emotional response. The environmental cue becomes the stimulus (the cause of) for the fear response. This can also be demonstrated if we inject a rat with adrenaline and it will develop a fear at any innocuous object in its cage. It might even bite you. Thus if you have an anxiety attack and you happen to be in a lift, then the lift may become a trigger for anxiety at a subsequent event. This Reverse conditioning or the pairing of an external stimulus with a fear response may be seen as the mechanism by which a person develops a phobia. That stimulus then becomes the trigger for the fear response. http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/beating_anxiety.html Thanks, Sunil
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