Strategy for Healing Supermarket Phobia

Having been someone who used to suffer from many obsessions and phobias I think I tended to take the 'bull at the gate' approach to most of them and it worked for me - I think for folks with obsessions the obsessions pursue them whereas people with phobias go out to pursue the phobia.

In this video an expert who has overcome a social anxiety problem discusses the 'baby-step' strategy he used.  If you'd like to subscribe to his other videos just double click the video and it'll take you to his YouTube channel.



The need for control is very strong in people with anxiety disorders and this is generated by the 'way things should be' thinking in the left neo-cortex logical mind. Getting the desire to be in control of the emotional process out of the way so you can 'lower' yourself into the process, thereby learning to control it indirectly, is key to overcoming anxiety attacks. The idea is that you let the experience flow through you and eventually it evaporates of its own accord.

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Regards - Carl