{"id":3283,"date":"2020-12-19T21:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T21:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2020-02-11T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T18:46:00","slug":"story-fear-of-moths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/19\/3283\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear of Moths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The case study \u201cFear of Moths\u201d illustrates how the stressful feelings which are associated with a particular situation can be dissociated from the situation and replaced with feelings which are associated with a more pleasant situation. The story can be used for spiders and any other phobia triggers as well as for moths.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday I visited some friends of mine. \u201cOur daughter is afraid of moths,\u201d they told me. \u201cEvery time she sees a moth in the apartment she has a meltdown and makes a huge fuss. Is there anything you can do?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d I said, and turned to the daughter, who was sitting at the table with us and drinking a mug of hot chocolate. \u201cThe next time you see a moth, make sure that you don\u2019t think about hot chocolate and that you don\u2019t think about not thinking about hot chocolate, and that you don\u2019t think about how the hot chocolate tastes right now and the way you feel when you drink hot chocolate, because if you think about hot chocolate and how you feel right now because you\u2019re drinking hot chocolate you might have hot chocolate feelings whenever you see a moth, accidentally and without meaning to. And what would happen if you felt as though you could almost taste and smell hot chocolate and as though you had hot chocolate feelings whenever you saw a moth? How would you cope?\u201d \u201cI wouldn\u2019t care.\u201d \u201cWatch out!\u201d I said. \u201cEven if you think you wouldn\u2019t care about having hot chocolate feelings whenever you saw a moth, you need to be careful that you don\u2019t end up not caring about the moths themselves, because it would be a shame if you didn\u2019t care about the moths so much that you got hot chocolate feelings whenever you saw them\u2026…\u201d The young girl saw a moth quarter of an hour later, and stayed calm and relaxed <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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