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Groller's Corner readers know I try to share almost everything on this blog --
the good, the bad, the ugly and everything in between. Well, today I will
share with you that I had my first colonoscopy this morning at Lehigh Valley
Hospital on Cedar Crest Blvd., which seems to me more like a small city or
college campus than a medical complex. Anyway, at age 50 you're supposed to
have these things done every five years and it's true what they say --- the
night before is much worse than the procedure itself. So it was on Wednesday
night when I had two wicked drinks followed by plenty of time spent on the
throne in the most important room of the house. Let's just say I had plenty of
time to get caught up my reading and my check-writing while undergoing the
cleanout process. But today was a piece...

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When Can You Judge Your Child’s Fear to be Unhealthful?

Many people, if not all, feel fear sometime of their life; the difference between well-adjusted people and those who aren’t is that well adjusted people know how to use their fears for their advantage. Fear is an important part of life because it teaches you self-preservation. According to theories on humanistic therapy, people should understand that fear per se is not bad, as long as it is manageable and as long as the effect it has on a person does not prevent that person from functioning like a normal individual. Sandtray is a dynamic type of psychotherapy that lets clients express their innermost emotions by means of metaphor and symbol.

One source of anxiety is fear, and fear among children is not utterly upsetting; children do expand some kinds of fear depending on their age. The reason behind this is that children do naturally develop some fears as they grow up because it’s part of the procedure of finding out the world around them; this isn’t necessarily unhealthy because your child can benefit from a little healthy kind of fear. What’s important is that your child’s anxiety can be considered age appropriate; such as, it’s hardly appropriate for a teenager to still feel excessively anxious about facing other people except for their parents.

When a child’s fear is strengthened and continues unchecked, it has the potential of evolving into real phobia which can be carried on to adulthood. Phobia is the extreme, intense, and irrational fear about something real or made up. Phobias are the most common reasons why parents bring their child to therapy; phobias can be exceedingly demanding to deal with because your child’s intense reaction towards something completely normal can take a toll on them and their parents. What’s important is that you are able to find out, probably with professional help, whether your child’s phobia is genuine or simply anxiety.

Carrying your child to play therapy can also become part of the solution if you are eager to mull over it. It’s best if you can also participate in the therapy sessions so that you can understand what’s causing the phobia over and above what you can do to help your child out. Children will also be able to cope with their fear in their own terms and, without somebody pushing them unceremoniously into it, they can face their fears and make sense out of it.

Children are not born with user guidebooks and it may be harder for you to understand how to help your child especially if you’ve never really had to deal with a phobia yourself. In addition to the games and activities that parents can do with their children, parents can also learn how to affirm their child’s convincing features in order to help them overcome their phobias. Parents can also know what kind of behavior from them will be harmful to their children’s development. Use positive language to encourage your child to face his or her phobias progressively and in his or her own pace, without urging them into something they are not ready for yet.

Like any other type of fear, the only way to help your child beat phobia is to help him or her approach it little by little until he or she knows that there’s nothing to fear from it. It may take time, but with your service and support, your child can in the end be released of a crippling kind of unhealthy fear.