How to treat claustrophobia?

People with claustrophobia usually experience anxiety in closed environments. Some may experience chest tightness, chest pain, psychological terror, and even fainting. However, the discomfort will be relieved as long as they leave the place as soon as possible. Claustrophobia poses a great threat to our normal social interactions. So how to treat claustrophobia? Let’s take a look at the treatment methods for claustrophobia.

Treatment for claustrophobia

1: Full filling method

This is currently the best psychological treatment for claustrophobia. This method is based on certain psychological counseling. It suddenly places the patient in front of or in a place that he fears, uses imagination, or directly brings the patient into the situation he fears the most. The patient is encouraged to imagine the scene that scares him the most; or the psychologist repeatedly and even tirelessly tells the details of the situation that scares him the most; or the patient is shown the scene that scares him the most through video or slide show to increase his anxiety level. At the same time, the patient is not allowed to adopt escape behaviors such as closing his eyes, crying, or blocking his ears.

Under repeated fear stimulation, even if the patient experiences autonomic nervous system reactions such as increased heartbeat, difficulty breathing, pale complexion, cold limbs due to anxiety and tension, the terrible disaster that the patient is most worried about does not happen, so the anxiety reaction will subside accordingly, and the fear symptoms will naturally disappear slowly.

2: Systematic desensitization

This is currently the safest and most effective behavioral treatment for claustrophobia. The doctor sets a step-by-step fear value and gradually exposes the patient to the fear-inducing things or places, so that the patient's senses are gradually stimulated, the degree of fear of the stimulation is gradually reduced, and finally the symptoms disappear completely.

This method is relatively mild and easily accepted by patients. The disadvantage is that the treatment time is long and the effect is slow to occur. For example, the patient's fear level can be graded. No anxiety was scored as 0 points, and the most frightening and anxious moment when driving a subway train in a tunnel was scored as 100 points. It is then divided into several levels, each representing a different degree of anxiety.

First, the doctor will lead the patient to start training from a lower level, such as walking into a subway station and how to overcome fear and anxiety; then approaching the cab, entering the cab, starting the subway train, the subway entering the tunnel, etc., guiding the patient to overcome fear step by step. For patients with severe conditions, some anti-anxiety drugs can be used in combination.

3. Drug therapy

The main treatments for claustrophobia are psychotherapy and drug therapy. The two complement each other and are indispensable. Since the above two points are about psychotherapy, drug therapy is also indispensable. There are a wide variety of drugs for treating claustrophobia on the market, and they are everywhere. Claustrophobia patients and their families do not know which drug is most effective and has the least side effects, so they often choose the wrong treatment drugs, which aggravates the condition and leads to serious consequences. After years of clinical trials, the pure Chinese medicine preparation Jingshen Dingdong Agent has excellent effect and no side effects, making it a good choice.