Self Treatment | A Cure For Fear: Part 4 | Topic

Part 4:
In order to help a patient face her fear of snakes, Dr. Kindt first has to face her own.
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Dr. Merel Kindt is a clinical psychologist with a new way to treat, or even eliminate, phobias and the effects of emotional trauma: first you confront the thing you’re scared of-then you take a pill, a beta-blocker called propranolol. Amazingly, it seems to work. In this four-part documentary series, we follow the doctor as she cares for patients terrified of everything from butterflies to needles, and begins to question just how fundamental fear really is to human nature.
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[@pgcroonerva3256]

I started crying the instant this started playing and she sat on the table. This is such a bad phobia for me. The source of my trauma is blood work. I can handle shots a little better, but my anxiety does still ramp up. As of this writing I have bloodwork in two days. I have been feeling a crushing sense of helplessness and distress the closer the approintment gets.

[@CuliLady]

I had been suffering from snake phobia as long as I can remember, until I got treated at Kindt Clinics. Exposure to a real snake (a boa constrictor!) was one of the worst things that ever happened to me. But 24 hours later the extreme fear was gone. So now I can really enjoy my weekends in our cabin on an island near Amsterdam (home of harmless indigenous snakes) and hopefully in the nearby future my annual holidays on Koh Kood (home of king cobra’s, green vipers and pythons!). I cannot emphasise enough how this treatment has improved my wellbeing. Many thanks to the wonderful people of Kindt Clinics! 🙏🏼

[@gilleous]

How wonderful! Have you found that the treatment has carried over to other parts of of your life? Changed your confidence level or level of optimism?

[@CuliLady]

@@gilleous Oh yes, it has been an enormous boost in many ways. I remember being overwhelmingly proud when I was holding a boa constrictor with my bare hands, only 24 hours after the terrifying first exposure. It gave me so much confidence and reassurance, a huge benefit of this treatment.

[@Thefrenchiefry]

Hey

[@Thefrenchiefry]

Look snakes

[@Thefrenchiefry]

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[@violingurl37]

Thank you to her for being so real.

[@kikivolauvent1]

Wow, I can relate to that phobia.... I was also terrified of gators and crocs when - as a young woman - I visited Florida and saw those eyes and jaws. Snakes can hang from trees and I’d probably die if that ‘hanging branch’ turned out to be a snake.... If ever I’d get to know someone with a fear of any of these kinds, I’d immediately think of these treatments and hand over the patient.

[@raggedbreath]

This was great. Thank you. I just contacted the clinic.

[@Lex5576]

My phobia of needles is selective. When it comes to a blood draw, I'm fine. Or even an IV. Having that done has never hurt me. It's when I have to get a shot that I run into problems. I think this developed when I was a child. I remember getting a shot once that was tremendously painful. I don't think it was a vaccination, but antibiotics for an ear infection. The experience has left me very hesitant to accept any kind of injection now, regardless of how bad I might need it. The odd thing is, I've gotten several shots since, over the years, and none of those hurt me at all. My wife is all but begging me to go get a tetanus booster next doctor visit. Even my doctor keeps trying, but I refuse her offer each time. This may be the result of me reading too much literature where people say tetanus shots are notoriously painful. I think next visit I'll let the nurse give me one anyway. If I just look the other way, I think I'll be fine. But looking at the needle is a definite NO NO.

[@lenidubelinc000]

Right! I’m the same way. I used to be petrified of needles. Same with the one when I was little that really hurt. Not tattoos though! My method of dealing with them was to pinch right below where the shot would be. 😂

[@Thefrenchiefry]

Jeez

[@Lex5576]

@@lenidubelinc000 LOL, I got that tetanus booster two weeks ago. I was expecting it to hurt a bit, but I honestly didn't feel a thing. It didn't sting....it didn't burn.....all I felt was the girl squeezing up the flesh of my arm where she was about to jab me and that's it. It's like nothing happened. I was just a tiny bit sore the day after, but that's all.

[@heyyitsnickfam]

i have emetophobia and i need to get therapy to get over it because it controls my life daily but i’m not sure how. i’m glad you’re doing this, it’s amazing

[@theartsyavi]

I have emetophobia too

[@monalisa8504]

Even though this might be dangerous, but I am going to try exactly this treatment by myself. No one in my area does this type of propranolol-therapy.

[@djkipping]

@@monalisa8504 Did you do it!? would you please share your experience? My 10 year old daughter is suffering from emetophobia as well. They don't yet treat children neither emetophobia because its hard to evoke.

[@gabbygray9267]

Wow, fantastic work!

[@kikivolauvent1]

Now we should have a fire-proofed treatment of examn fears.... those have spoiled my youth and I’m co-suffering now with my daughter-in-law who does a 2 yrs study and who suffers greatly and debilitatingly from examination fears....

[@toxicglitch4565]

Thank U For Showing Me The Injection I Have A PHOBIA TOO QwQ

[@ikbengeit9021]

I have a severe case of kleptophobia and since lately strange cars started appearing in our street and a man came to our door to deliver food at the wrong adress, I have been feerfull for 3 days now, I check the windows every 10 minutes and I have found myself sitting near the window next to the stairs for 5 hours straight. I am really scared at the moment. What I am trying to say is that I could really use this.

[@sihemblrs7595]

I relate 💔

[@timcarrot]

Great series.

[@Bk-fh5tt]

I have a fear of wind so even when the leaves move or my curtains move my heart starts racing and i cant sleep either, i have earphones in my ears all night, i am tired of living because thunderstorms are usual in my region. What the hell am i supposed to do.

[@SuspiriaX]

Being a stormchaser by heart, I really don't know what to tell you. But what I've learned from my needle phobia is that the phobia-specialized therapists out there have all kinds of tools in their box to help with such a thing. I think they can help you with your wind phobia too.

[@Bk-fh5tt]

@@SuspiriaX i too used to love winds but now i dont know what happened. Thanks for the advice

[@SuspiriaX]

@@Bk-fh5tt would you say that your phobia is triggered by the experience of not being in control of the wind? this would mean you have no problem blowing out candles or using your very own table ventilator in summer does the mere act of talking about it like right now make you feel physically uncomfortable?

[@Bk-fh5tt]

@@SuspiriaX no i am okay when i control the wind. But when its natural wind, thoughts of how it can cause damage, really scare me.

[@Bk-fh5tt]

@@SuspiriaX i have another house where the insulation is good and the wind gusts are felt that much, but where i permanently live there my house is filled with windows which increases the sound and the neighbours have gates which make more noises, and overall that house feels weak and i get cold sweats.

[@shareandcare7880]

Mam plz make a video on how to get rid of fear from pelvic examination by gynae mam plz help me i think I m suffering from vaginismis but just bcoz of fear I failed so many times for examine near gynae plz help me

[@SuspiriaX]

This happens a lot. Pelvic examinations can easily be traumatic because it is such an incredibly intimate area. It is a form of sexual trauma, even though the abuse was unintentional. There are many women out there just like you, who have a similar experience and fear, with the vaginismus usually being the result of it. You are not alone. And it can be healed. But as you already know it won't go away on it's own.

[@sosouu978]

same here i suffer from vaginismus for 4 years now. Today im trying this wish me luck

[@thefunfact8708]

I m always fearful ,,what to do ?

[@Thefrenchiefry]

I have this

[@shaduu2246]

Y do I love getting shot? **Syringe**

[@jadehiggans6667]

How can you get over the fear of propanolol

[@charlescarabott7692]

Weed might help

[@mck-gr]

i guess the same way! You get exposed to it , the next day it is gone but you are not in need for it anyway in the first place most probably!

[@demitriastevara8303]

the ultimate problem of all phobia is that we're somehow so convinced that the universe is revolving around us, we just cant accept what reality is like, so we project our twisted mind into our own reality.

[@worldmentalchannel8173]

Phobia. Exposure Therapy

[@NathanEllery]

ummm you can indeed get pregnant even if you have a needle phobia. Very interesting series.