I need to cure my phobia...help!!!

[Linnielou5]

Hiya....I'm seriously needing some recommendations to help cure my phobia, it's really effecting my life now it's ridiculous! Can anyone recommend the best form of treatment, hypnotherapy or is there a cd or dvd I can buy? I'm seriously thinking about contacting the speakmans it's getting so out if hand and I don't even know how or why it started! I went to the Drs yesterday as I'm quite an anxious person at times but lately Ive been feeling really anxious over silly things, she was really helpful although unsure how to tackle the phobia problem!! Any advice would be greatly appreciated!!!x

What are you phobic of?

Honestly I'm so embarrassed but it's ropes!! I know it's crazy, but rope even string!!! ????

That's a bit rubbish of your GP!

CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) works really well on phobias. In some areas it is possible to have this sort of counselling on the NHS - although there might be quite a long wait - otherwise you might have to pay but I would say it is well worth it!

Really mintyy, I am willing to pay if it will help so I should look into it! Gp mentioned counselling but there is a 5 month waiting list, I've to go back next week so I'm hoping she will have something else to help! I feel really silly that I have this phobia but I just can't rationalise it at all, it's something that started maybe early teens or a bit younger and I can't think what triggered it off! I see the speakmans on TV helping people with phobias and think that there must be someone out there that could help me...without going on this morning lol!

Hypnotherapy worked for my phobia of flying, well enough to allow me to do a 7 hour flight.

That's an interesting phobia you've got, Linnie. A pyschiatrist could make a meal out of that one

Source a clinical hynotherapist here www.bsch.org.uk/ and it shouldn't be long before you're tying up brown paper packages with an item you were once phobic about.