... someone over their fears is to do it by a stimulus hierarchy. This is where a person starts small in the sense of getting over their phobia, one example of this is to be in the same room as a spider, and then they work up by getting closer and closer to the spider. Here the response of fear is being extinguished as it lets a person go as far as they want but at the same time they are still counteracting their phobia by learning to disassociate their phobia with the feeling of fear. Systematic desensitisation is where a person is made to relax their muscles before being subjected to the stimulus(phobia) and this means that their anxiety levels will not be as high and this will then help with the disassociation with the phobia. ...

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