Coulrophobia: How to successfully identify and overcome phobias.
Date Submitted: 09/19/2002 23:42:32
Category: / Recreation & Sports / Mental Health
Length: 5 pages (1365 words)
Category: / Recreation & Sports / Mental Health
Length: 5 pages (1365 words)
I decided to use a phobia that I suffer from. I suffer from coulrophobia, a persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of clowns that compels avoidance, despite the understanding by the phobic individual and reassurance by others that there is no danger.
And my fear extends to circus music, clown outfits, clown voices, etc.... My mother claims I have been coulrophic since birth, but for this essay I need to pinpoint a moment in my life …
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…that being said, I don't know that I would have the strength to participate in systematic desensitization. It would be very scary and stressful and I don't know that I would have the courage to participate.
Websites provided by the instructor:
www.phobialist.com/treat.html
http://www.isu.edu/ctl/learnstrat/handouts/test-panic.html
Websites I found interesting:
www.phobialist.com/
www.as.wvu.edu/~sbb/comm221/chapters/pavlov.htm
http://www.ihateclowns.net/
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