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Originally Posted by also_depr
Whom would you call to reduce your telephone anxiety?
It's clear that sometimes we need to enter in contact with the real world through the telephone, and to reduce anxiety, you need a step by step approach, starting by small steps.
1st: it cannot be a therapist, who is already a trustworthy person
2nd: it cannot be an old friend or relative, same reason as 1st.
So, which information service, company, church, would you call, asking some meaningful information and what would you ask?
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actually there are other modes of communication in the real world besides the telephone...
examples
talking in person face to face
around here where I live and work chat rooms / instant messaging are considered real time because its talking to someone right then and there and can be a family member, or friend or other persons we work with/ or need to talk with.
our digital television has real time talking capabilities like skype,/ chat rooms / instant messaging
my nephews Xbox has real time chatting capabilities so that he can be playing a game and talking in real time with his friends, family, and who ever else his parents allow him to talk with in real time on his X box.
my wife's and my computers are set up[ with cams/mikes and have programs that allow us to talk with our friends, families, treatment providers, clients co workers...in real time.
that said hypothetically if I had a telephone phobia or telephone anxiety problem I would not be talking to someone by way of the phone. that would be like expecting me to be n a room full of bees when Im allergic to bees, or exposing myself on purpose to something that causes me to have trouble breathing, dizzyness, heart palpitations that feel like Im having an heart attack....and other extremely mentally and physically painful feelings that I have with my anxiety problems.
most people that I know avoid what triggers them into an anxiety attack, not choose to engage in what causes them to have an anxiety attack. those that I know that do in fact have a problem with telephones use other modes of communication such as seeing someone in person, writing a letter, emailing, sending a message to the person on social networking sites or chatting in real time modes in social net worknig sites, chat rooms and instant messaging. I even know someone who refuses to have a phone in their home or on their person because doing so causes them to panic/hallucinate/ have trouble breathing...
those that I know (including me in this) with panic anxiety problems can be quite creative in finding other modes to do things other than engaging in what causes them panic and anxiety.