What a brave kid.
The treatment involves gradually building up tolerance to your child’s fear.Whether it’s monsters under the bed, darkness, spiders, or some other creepy-crawlies, most kids have one or two things that send a jolt ofthrough them. Of course, there are a few things that you want them to have a healthy fear of, to keep them safe: heights, traffic, fire.
Most phobias originate in a real-life experience, and grow out of proportion from there. This was the experience of Mellencamp’s son, Cruz, 7, who she “until this week hasn’t gone into an elevator since he saw a power ranger get stuck in one at age 5.”“We are on day 4 of 7 for Cruz exposure therapy and he is crushing it. Everyday a new elevator and he earns rewards.”
Exposure therapy, according to the Mayo Clinic, involves “gradual, repeated exposure to the source of your specific phobia and the related thoughts, feelings and sensations.” Someone with a fear of elevators, like Cruz, might start by looking at a picture of an elevator or imagining getting into one, and progress to approaching, entering, and finally taking a ride in an elevator. A therapist will often accompany a patient during these exposures.
In a previous post to her Instagram story, Mellencamp shared a video of Cruz standing in an elevator.
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