City Express News Yesterday, a news of "a driver in Jiangsu was scared out of fear of heights by taking the Guizhou highway" rushed to Weibo's hot search.
Mao Mou, a 59-year-old truck driver, recently set off from Guangdong to prepare to pull aluminum to Chongqing, passing through the Guizhou Rongzun Expressway, it was a rainy and foggy day. He saw the curved highway in front of him and the ground falling, and he was afraid of heights - he felt very uncomfortable, dizzy, weak hands and feet, and did not dare to drive forward again, so he had to stop and call the police for help. Later, with the help of the Guizhou traffic police, Mao was escorted off the highway along with the truck.
What is fear of heights? Tang Guangzheng, deputy chief physician of the Second Department of Psychosomatics at the Mental Health Center Affiliated to Zhejiang University School of Medicine (Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital), said that fear of heights is the fear of height or the high environment, such as not daring to take a high-altitude cable car, not daring to climb a mountain, not daring to take a transparent elevator, etc.
Fear of heights is actually a kind of anxiety attack, which belongs to the category of phobia, which can be manifested as weakness of legs and feet, dizziness and panic, nervousness, shortness of breath, paleness and other discomforts, mainly related to biological factors, psychological factors and social factors.
Biological factors are a subconscious of human beings who are born away from danger; psychological factors refer to the psychological cues of the patient,000 that even before reaching heights, they anticipate that fear may occur and thus be worried. Social factors, often related to the patient's growth experience, may have experienced similar mental stimulation.
"Some people have a fear of heights and then have such a memory in their brain. If they encounter a similar situation, the patient will subconsciously associate it with a specific previous situation. After the memory is stimulated, the fear of heights may recur, some people will freeze in place, some people will subconsciously run away, and the situation will become more and more serious. Director Tang introduced.
How to overcome fear of heights? Director Tang said that the general fear of heights can avoid the high environment, but if it has affected daily life, it is recommended to treat it as soon as possible.
In the treatment of fear of heights, Director Tang said that at present, it is mainly drug treatment and exposure treatment, and the treatment effect is good.
"Exposure therapy has imagination exposure, VR scene exposure, and real-world environmental exposure. Exposure treatment for fear of heights is to expose patients to high scenes and let patients face fear of heights directly. Of course, for different heights, the patient's sense of fear is also different, and the clinic will slowly test from low to high according to the actual situation of the patient, so that the patient can gradually tolerate and eliminate the tension. ”
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