37. Phobic behaviours

37. Phobic behaviours

Phobic reactions can indeed take on particular proportions. This is linked especially to how dopamine functions, how events are recorded in the brain and the salience effect, which can distort and amplify the object of the phobia. One may find oneself in extreme states of anxiety and stress. The way information is recorded in the brain, through a computer-like algorithm that is distorted in this case, leads to strong reactions.

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) adapted for autism offers solutions aimed at restoring a sound algorithm and providing correct, undistorted information.

Sentences that help transform false information stuck in the brain into something positive:

● I am in danger nowhere in the world.

● I am affected only by my own thoughts.

● I am upset because I perceive something that does not exist.

● I see something pleasant in its place.