Phobia of Swallowing Pills When I was younger, and even to this day I have always enjoyed sweets, and candy. One day, as a child, I was in the living room by myself eating lifesavers; the hard candy type. The way I would eat the lifesavers would be to suck them until they were not as hard and then bite them into smaller pieces to swallow. However, before I was able to bite into it while sucking on it I accidentally swallowed it. Once it was stuck in my throat I panicked because no matter how many times I tried to swallow it would not go down. I went to go get my mom who was thankfully home in her room. Once I got her she was panicking as well concerned about the fact that I was choking. She then called my Dad and asked him what to do, He then told her to calm down and get some water for me and told her to tell me to drink slowly, and keep drinking until it melted. My mom, unfortunately, was still a little frantic and he told her to hand the phone to me. I then listened to him telling me to calm down and keep drinking. It felt like forever before it finally melted and even then I kept drinking some more water just to make sure it was gone. After that incident I was mostly calm but …show more content…
Through generalization, which is when a conditioned response happens despite the conditioned stimulus not being present and rather being an object or item that can be related to the original conditioned stimulus, I think because the pills are similar in shape, and not considered something easy to swallow. I generalized pills to being similar to lifesavers and became equally fearful of pills as to the lifesavers (Powell et al., 2013, p. 140). Overall, while I realize that “such extreme, irrational fear reactions are known as phobias,” it is because of that I am not quite sure what to do about it (Powell et al., 2013, p.
Children love candy. Known childhood favorites are Dum Dums and Jolly Ranchers, but who would expect a childhood favorite to harm a child? One calm day 6 year old Easton Newton was playing with toy cars when he opened a hard Jolly Rancher at his best friends desk. While his teacher was checking on another classroom, Easton began to choke and tried to cough his Jolly Rancher up, but couldn’t. Luckily, Shelby Labar, a classmate, immediately rushed to Easton’s side and used the heimlich maneuver they had practiced months before. Easton was now safe. Jolly Ranchers can easily get lodged in the throat of their consumers. Clearly, Dum Dums are the better candy because they are much safer to eat.
The Anxiety of Anti-Anxiety Medications 19 million Americans (approximately one in eight) aged 18-54 suffer from anxiety disorders. (1) When I heard this statistic, I realized how important the discussion of such disorders was to the sciences. 1/8th of the most productive portion of the US population suffers from an anxiety disorder. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a division of the Institutes of Health for the Federal Government, is committed to research causes and treatment of such disorders. (2) Progress has been made, comparing studies of animals to studies of humans, in pinpointing the specific areas of the brain.
I’m sure you’ve seen the ads and the promos everywhere, young beautiful women showing off there gorgeous body on a pill bottle. When someone sees the image of a slimming individual on a container of pills that promise to help you lose weight, you get excited and start to think oh my something that’s going to make me skinny. When a teenager sees the pill bottle they want to use it because they assume that it works. Children are so young and they make the pills accessible at age 18 but if their parents buy them for themselves and a child gets ahold of it, it can be detrimental. A child is so naive and doesn’t understand that the damage done by taking too many pills can be fatal. So having a young slimming woman on the front of a pill bottle can
One summer day on May 23, 2014, I was in the kitchen all day trying to find a way to keep my little brother, and dad from stealing my peach rings. Peach rings are these gummy like candies that tasted of peach with this really yummy sugar on them. But everytime that I get to get a bag of them they are gone in the first few minutes I have them. So I came up with this genius idea to put raw spam in my peach rings so that no one would eat them. Because everyone in my family hates spam. So one day when my parents were at work I quickly had to figure out a way to put the spam in the peach rings so they won’t eat them. Then it happened I could make peach rings with raw spam in them so my family will stop eating all of them.
...6. Generalization from the original phobic stimulus to stimuli of a similar nature will occur; 7. Noxious experiences which occur under conditions of excessive confinement are more likely to produce phobic reactions; 8. Neutral stimuli which are associated with a noxious experience, may develop motivating properties. This acquired drive is termed the fear drive; 9. Responses (such as avoidance) which reduce the fear drive are reinforced; 10. Phobic reactions can be acquired vicariously (Rachman 31). These theories are used to identify how people obtain phobias and other situations that may occur with phobias.
I was a bit younger so I didn’t know what was going on until I got the Chuck E Cheese. Once I got there I was in awe with all the lights flashing before me, and the smell of pizza in the air. Stoked out of my mind I ran to were all my friends were. We played all the machines and tried to get as many tickets for the prize booth. It was finally time to eat, which we were seated right in front of the stage they had with all the mascots. Behold the Chuck E Cheese mascot which was a rat came out and my eyes widen and I started running. Figuring out where to hide, I went under the table. My mom told me to get out from under and that nothing was going to happen to me. Yet I didn’t trust her until I went into a room where some of my aunts, mom, and the mascot were there. Still freaking out the mascot took of its head and behold a human. At that time I didn’t know that someone was inside and my mom tried on the head to show me that everything was going to be okay. Relieved that the human rat wasn’t going to harm me, I went about the party and had a good rest of the day. Yet we never ended up having another party again at Chuck E. Cheese.
After I was saved, Makayla offered to take me to church with her every Sunday I would want to go, but about a year later on the May of our junior year, Makayla tragically passed away in a car accident. During this time, my grades were dropping, I was cutting with a razor to release my pain of losing her. I started to get mad at God for taking her away from me. My depression was at an all-time high and it was just so difficult to deal with that one day, I opened my medicine cabinet, grabbed a bunch of pills, stuffed it under my shirt, gave my mother a hug acting like everything was normal, and then I overdosed in the bed of my room. The catch is, I woke up with my mother by my side in a hospital.
Probably some of the most pleasurable and enjoyable memories of a person has to do with sweets. When thinking back to birthdays, there is always the memory of the wonderful cake that mother beautifully made and decorated with frosting and glazes. A typical night out with dad can be transformed into a magical evening with a trip to the ice cream parlor. The end of a fantastic Thanksgiving dinner turns heavenly when a hot apple pie is brought to the table and topped with delicious, melting vanilla ice cream. A good wedding is never complete without the cutting of the splendid multi-level wedding cake, when the happy new couple gets to playfully shove and smear cake and white frosting into each other’s smiling faces. Everyone knows that as a child, the only good part about going to the dentist is getting the candy bar at the end of the visit. Why do some people get sick after eating too much suger? Some people do not even know that the abuse of sugar can lead to negative effects on your body. There is something strangely enjoyable and resplendent about the consumption of sugar. Why is it that sugar is so deliciously enjoyable and at the same time a food product that has many negative affects on people’s health?
I don’t know why I remember throwing up McDonald’s cookies. I was probably three, and had just eaten several
I didn’t know what to expect. I’m in the hospital waiting room with my mom and Auntie Joy! We checked in and they took us to the back and put us in the waiting room. Everyone was asking me if I was nervous. The ambiance of the room was white and sterile. I felt cold and vulnerable. To make matters worse, I had to put on a hospital gown. Luckily, I was able to keep my underwear and socks on. There’s a knock at the door and the nurse is back with some awful looking concoction. She tells me that I have to drink 4 bottles of this nasty stuff. The thickness and slime of the drink made me ill. Next comes the multiple trips to the bathroom. At that point, I knew this was not going to be an easy afternoon. The fear of the unknown evaded my mind and body. I am terrified for what is about to come next.
When I was a young girl I remember playing in the woods with my brother and sister. We accidentally disturbed a hive of angry bees, and we each got stung five to ten times. We all were crying and screaming as we were being chased back up to our cabin. Halfway up the hill by sister fell down because her throat started to close up. My mom fortunately heard us yelling and ran down to my sister with an Epi-pen. The bees were still chasing us, so after my mom stabbed my sister with the Epi-pen she picked her up and we all ran into the cabin. My brother and I got stung about fifteen times and only had the little red bumps to show for it. My sister on the other hand, got stung about twenty times and almost died. I was so confused as to why. I asked
When I was in the 7th grade. I wanted to have teeth that were straight, and white as mint toothpaste, but I needed to let go the candy, and any sticky food if I was going to get braces. I contemplated all morning before the procedure if it was worth it because I had a whole stack of candy from Halloween, either way, I didn't have a choice anymore I was there already waiting in the lobby. As soon as they called me in I was asking myself should I eat one more candy before this demolition experience takes away my goodies from me, but my mom was saying no you are not going to eat that anymore, if you want beauty, you had to deal with pain to get there. After an hour had passed I went to find a mirror so I could see you took this decision upon
They gave me some gauze and told me to apply a little pressure to stop the bleeding. Every time I would remove the gauze I could see how his flesh had been ripped, deep, in the shape of an "L". It looked as if one of the metal corners of the food shelves had dug a hole right into his cheek. I recall thinking that I had taken every precaution I could have to make sure he was safe. I still felt as if I had done something wrong. Had I turned the corner to quickly or been too close to the metal shelves? I remember feeling as if I had failed him in some way. Luckily after they stitched his cheek up, and as the years have passed by, his head has grown and the scar is almost completely off of his face.
The only food that I avoid because of a bad experience is deep fried cheese curds, and many would find avoiding cheese curds odd because I grew up in Wisconsin where deep fried cheese curds are considered a relatively popular food. Coincidently, my first time eating cheese curds would be my last. I was very young, and I decided after I had already eaten a sizable lunch that it would be a good idea to eat as many cheese curds I could possibly fit in my stomach. I then went straight to the back seat of my father’s recently bought car. We ...