My Objective Anxiety

A key method in CBT for helping people with anxiety disorders, be it Specific, Seperation, or General, is to have the child watch themselves become scared.  This involves having the child think or exposing the child to the feared item.  The therapist then asks the child to rate how scared they are periodically and take note of physical symptoms.  Eventually the symptoms subside and the child learns to recognize that anxiety is just a physical reaction.

By using iCalm (which measures Electrodermal Activity that correlates with you becoming anxious), we can have the child watch themselves become anxious and see the physiological effects.  The child can also see that anxiousness come down either naturally or through trained relaxation techniques.  I believe this visual option will help the child better understand what is going on inside of them.

Furthermore, a real challenging form of anxiety disorder is eating disorders.  I believe showing people their anxiety when they become scared may help them better confront the issue and remove the "blaming" aspect from the evaluation.  This is what your body does when you think of food. . ..