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A Little Anxiety Is Good.
A Little Anxiety Is Good.
A psychologist mom
normal-seeming fears
because of bees -
He started panicking
whenever he needed to go outside
to go to Fort Ticonderoga,
of splinter potential.
close-toed shoes,
long sleeve shirt, long pants,
no exposed skin.
to touch anything,
a wooden bench,
Eli absolutely could not sit on
utterly exhausted,
We didn't realize
(Laughter)
So I went on a quest
an approach to treatment
to pay attention
(Laughter)
in a definitive way,
of overcoming anxiety
to take action
the action
(Laughter)
but fueled
(Laughter)
anxious children,
as I turned down
But eventually,
(Laughter)
(Laughter)
My first thought was,
you've desensitized.
is called flooding,
it's like exposure on steroids,
Afraid of spiders?
Afraid of germs?
Go to a pediatrician's office,
Fortunately, there's
eventually agreeing
holding my script,
reading it verbatim,
culminating in this.
(Applause)
So there's hope
in our assessment
It's a misperception,
catastrophizing.
Sound familiar?
"Don't go there,"
tell yourself,
and then go up
It's a feeling,
to something else.
allowing us to remember
So we have a choice:
Thank you.
(Applause)