How to Deal with Emotionally Explosive People
Chapter 3 Basic Calming Technique The elevator comes to a grinding halt between the 18th and 19th floors. You’ve heard about thi ...
It is the time of ripening. Even before she sees the first red berry, she can smell them on the breeze, mixed with the scent of ...
We’ll look at the brain on four different levels: NEURAL STRUCTURES. Physical parts of the gray matter like the amyg- dala and t ...
with abstract processes like memoryand instinctive programs, like the fight or flight response and dominance hierarchies,all of ...
The woman’s voice is tight and shrill. “What’s happening? What’s wrong with the elevator? Why won’t it go?” She pulls at her col ...
work pretty much the same way. All of these techniques take advantage of the fact that the parasympathetic nervous system is wir ...
Often, you can restore rhythm by getting panicky people to control their breathing. Sympathetic breathing is usually rapid, shal ...
weird, because we don’t normally tell adults when they’re doing some- thing right. If you feel like a preschool teacher, you’re ...
back a few steps to regain a smooth, repetitious delivery. It makes sense to follow their lead. Eventually, after a second try, ...
If you’re like most people, you’re thinking, No way; I just couldn’t. Before I try to convince you that there is a way, think ab ...
chotherapy. The awareness is insight, and the arguing and eventually try- ing out of new, formerly frightening actions is workin ...
message you’re already sending. Every time her internal alarm bellows, give her something more solid and reassuring to think abo ...
a representation of her internal state. Generally, when people say they have a phobia, they’re asking for external accommodation ...
applies even to angry people, but in that case it must be done carefully. You’ll learn how in the section on anger. Once you beg ...
Some explosive people are strangers; you can calm them down and walk away. Others you see every day as friends, coworkers, and f ...
Fear disorders improve with medication, psychotherapy, and a little help from friends and family, but as with the calming sequen ...
Explosions into Fear ❧ 67 Panic attacks aren’t fatal, but they probably feel worse than dying. Some people may prefer death. The ...
Exposure to the phobic stimulus almost invariably provokes an immediate anxiety response, which may take the form of a situatio ...
prehuman ancestors to recognize and avoid dangers. Reactions resembling phobias are almost universal in animals. Blood phobias t ...
minds until they can at least imaginethe action without fear. In treatment, Neil’s wife learned that seeing the fearful look on ...
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