Linkaria wrote:
I am asking this for my little sister.
She wants to know if any of you are bothered by hearing certain words and what did you do to get over it?
She has a list of words she hates hearing. At first, it was only curse words and those are easy to avoid. But it gradually grew to include more common words. For example, awhile and sometimes are words she doesn't like to hear. And she's worried that more words will start to bother her.
She stopped watching her favorite shows and doesn't read anymore for fear of even seeing the words. That's why I am here posting for her.
Speaking from experience, Systematic Dissensation works well for phobias, but we're not sure it would work here or make it worse. Either way, avoiding the words has not helped.
Any advice or information any of you have to give will be greatly appreciated.
It does sound like something desensitization would help, if it was a learned behavior and you know of a good practitioner. But, it would fail miserably & possibly be harmful if there was some other cause, such as audio processing problems or some sort of emotional trauma that she is keeping a secret.
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16 Apr 2016, 8:09 pm
