TIMESINDONESIA, JAKARTA – Breathlessness, dizziness, light-headedness, vertigo, excessive sweating, muscle tension, tremors, heart palpitations, stomach cramps, nausea, and headaches when you are at high place are the symptoms of acrophobia.
Dokter Sehat gives you several tips to overcome it. What are they? Let's check it out.
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1. Exposure therapy
Exposing people with acrophobia by taking them alot more to higher place might work as well to their condition. Since taking them to these place will make them less scared and will feel that they could do it.
2. Cognitive behavioral therapy
This therapy can help people with acrophobia reframe their phobic thoughts. Like changing their fear into something normal, and asking them self why do they need to fear about it.
3. Medication
Medication is particularly helpful if someone must face their fear of heights without therapy. In some cases, physicians may prescribe antidepressants, beta blockers, or sedatives to help with acrophobia.
4. VR or virtual reality
By using this tool, people with acrophobia could manage their fear without being afraid of getting hurt. This could be a good way to manage their fear, but make sure you di it gradually. Coz instant therapy could get you sick or even threw up while using VR. (*)
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| Editor | : Khodijah Siti |
| Publisher | : Rizal Dani |
