Adam Guastella
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first heard Mar 2019
last heard Mar 2019
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The the evidence is fairly clear that if you have some hereditary predisposition to one anxiety disorder, then
That elevation is for most anxiety disorders and that includes phobias.
Most phobias don't naturally go away.
There's some reason why they go away and that's usually about experience.
And treatment provides a really great way of developing corrective experiences that help you to understand whether something is dangerous or not.
But they won't just magically go away.
We provided treatment and he overcame his anxiety and phobia.
What he described in the assessment though was a long history of missing out on things because of the phobia.
He'd
turned down promotions, he wouldn't supervise people, he wasn't willing to go to parties, he'd wasn't able to have a close relationship because of uh social fears.
And so he missed out on a whole range of things in his life and uh he reported not ever having a girlfriend.
And then three to six months later I got a letter from him
saying uh he had his first girlfriend and uh I thought that well that was wonderful.
I but it was also really sad because I thought to myself, you know, if people get treatment early, he could have had a completely different life course.
And that's what I study young people, particularly, you know, young people coming to me at school or in their early years.
If you get treatment early, it's not going to impact on your your life.
We use cognitive behaviour therapy, which is the evidence-based most effective way for treating phobias.
What CBT or cognitive behavior therapy does is examines the thoughts that you have around fears and challenges, um, examines the evidence for those thoughts, but then also gives you experiences through what is termed exposure therapy.
But experiences which teach you gradually that what you fear is actually safe.
Firstly, we would try and identify exactly what their fears are, if they feel like they'd lose control, if they feel like they'd go crazy, if they feel like the spider would attack them.
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