408 How to Overcome the Fear of Medical Procedures (A Therapist's Guide)

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  Raise your hand if you've ever panicked through the thought of a medical procedure.

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  Needles, blood tests, awaiting for results, or even stepping into the hospital,

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  these are all things that can cause so much anxiety for all of us.

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  But today,

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  we're going to talk about how to overcome those fears and share some specific tools

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  for managing common fears like needle phobias,

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  blood phobias, and more.

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  Hello my friends,

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  welcome back to your anxiety toolkit where we talk all about how to face your fears.

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  big or small.

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  My name is Kimberly Quinlan.

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  I am a licensed anxiety specialist and today we're focusing on how to overcome the fear of medical procedures.

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  This was actually a listener's question.

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  We're going to discuss general tips and tools for common fears,

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  including needles, blood, waiting for results, and hospital visits.

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  I'm going to guide you through a tool we use in treatment called exposure and response prevention to help you manage those fears.

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  So let's get started.

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  Now, before we get going, let me say that this is a topic I feel particularly qualified to talk on.

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  As many of you know,

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  in 2019 I went down a very scary rabbit hole of finding a lesion on the left side of my cerebellum in the back of my brain and I had to undergo dozens of tests,

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