Afraid of heating/air conditioner register in bedroom and SSRI's

[Guest guest]

I'm posting for a friend of mine. Their young daughter with Aspergers

is afraid to sleep in her bedroom, and can tell them she's afraid of

the register that blows out air conditioning in the summer and heat in

the winter. They have to pull out the cover, turn it so it faces the

wall, and close the vents. Sometimes, she still is afraid to be in

her room.

They have a new baby in the family, too.

Anyway, I am wondering if anyone can help them with a way to find out

WHY the vent is so scary (I told them there might be an alligator down

there--I was always imagining there was an alligator under my bed),

and how to help with the fears.

And would SSRI's help with this type of anxiety?

Thanks,

Penny

[Guest guest]

penny we often have unsual fears, well at least unsual fears in

compare to the typical peoples. You not be to say of the age but if

words i to assume the child is of older but still young. And with

Aspergers so mabe of average intellect.

For me as child was often fearful of much, as adults I to be of still

much fearful of things others not be to fear. but often I to be

fearful of cause and effect things i to lack the logic too and cant

understand the sources of whys to it. I to think maybe she is not

understanding of why or the logic for the floor areas to be blowing in

air and it can be hot one time and cold another. it can be to be

harder because one cant see air so the feel of it seems to be to not

have a source except coming from the floor which makes no sense to us.

the vent then can be like a source of unknown to us which can trigger

a fear of the same level a toddler/prescooler does of monsters in the

room.

Maybe finding a piece of furniture that can set over top to hide the

source some such as a dresser that has of legs to lift it up off the

vent some. and then place a source of white noise system to her room

to make the noise of the vent be less a noticed sound source to her.

maybe one can do a social sotry of how air vents work and why, to

lessen her fears of them show here different sources of air blowing

such as tree leaves from wind, pinwheels from winds and blowing and

then palce them in front of fans, show her how you can blow air onto

to her show her the car vents and such and then if she to likes of the

pinwheels moving from air and is less fearful of wind sources then try

to let the pinwheel be or a game and stick it over her vent in the

room as in a play fashions do not make it be of great teaching or

toomuch attention paid to her past fear of it but stick it over and

play with it by you self while in her presence within her room and

giggle and such so she can see it is of okay...... once she is of

okay to the sources of wind and sounds of wind and how things can be

ot move because of winds she might be to lessen the fear of the air

coming through it.

My therapist to have of this nerf toy that shoots of air pocket and to

me am ever so fearful of it. because the first exposure to it was of

somethings that didnot understand and when he to shooted of it to a

group member with permission of that member and i to seen of hims hair

blow up it triggered to me a lasting fear of it now and even to this

day am fearful of that toy....so see even as adults can still have

fears but for me if is if logic does not make sense to me from the

level of my own intellect and knowing.

Sondra

[Guest guest]

My first thought was the noise might be irritating to her. When I was

a kid, I was afraid of any black space. That meant a window that

wasn't completely covered, ductwork, a hallway that lead into a dark

room where I couldn't see. I was also afraid to hang my feet over side

of bed, over a chair, etc, after dark. Was afraid a demon would grab

them and pull me under. Was also afraid to drive over bridges, thought

either driver would run off side or bridge would fall in. Afraid of

patios that they'd fall in, afraid of being above ground floor for

fear of it caving in, and afraid to fly for fear of it crashing.

SSRI has helped Allie tremendously, but I would suggest trying dietary

supps/diet/behavior therapy first. Once that's been tried then parents

can be reasonably sure that it's not underlying food issue and/or

nutritional imbalance causing the problems, or that it's not something

in need of a behavioral change. Teaching person to talk/work through

one's feelings can be huge, too.

We thought Allie would be okay off the zoloft since starting b-12shots

and LDN, but after 3 mos she's regressed pretty much to the point of

screaming all the time again. <sigh> For her, the SSRI therapy seems

critical for her to be able to function, regardless of what we try.

HTH,

Debi

[Guest guest]

I always found to overcome my fears was to do technical research. Once I

knew all the facts, the fear became unreasonable. I used to have a fear of

elevators but now I know, after doing research on how they work and safety

statistics, there is nothing to fear.

Re: Afraid of heating/air conditioner register in

bedroom and SSRI's

penny we often have unsual fears, well at least unsual fears in

compare to the typical peoples. You not be to say of the age but if

words i to assume the child is of older but still young. And with

Aspergers so mabe of average intellect.

For me as child was often fearful of much, as adults I to be of still

much fearful of things others not be to fear. but often I to be

fearful of cause and effect things i to lack the logic too and cant

understand the sources of whys to it. I to think maybe she is not

understanding of why or the logic for the floor areas to be blowing in

air and it can be hot one time and cold another. it can be to be

harder because one cant see air so the feel of it seems to be to not

have a source except coming from the floor which makes no sense to us.

the vent then can be like a source of unknown to us which can trigger

a fear of the same level a toddler/prescooler does of monsters in the

room.

Maybe finding a piece of furniture that can set over top to hide the

source some such as a dresser that has of legs to lift it up off the

vent some. and then place a source of white noise system to her room

to make the noise of the vent be less a noticed sound source to her.

maybe one can do a social sotry of how air vents work and why, to

lessen her fears of them show here different sources of air blowing

such as tree leaves from wind, pinwheels from winds and blowing and

then palce them in front of fans, show her how you can blow air onto

to her show her the car vents and such and then if she to likes of the

pinwheels moving from air and is less fearful of wind sources then try

to let the pinwheel be or a game and stick it over her vent in the

room as in a play fashions do not make it be of great teaching or

toomuch attention paid to her past fear of it but stick it over and

play with it by you self while in her presence within her room and

giggle and such so she can see it is of okay...... once she is of

okay to the sources of wind and sounds of wind and how things can be

ot move because of winds she might be to lessen the fear of the air

coming through it.

My therapist to have of this nerf toy that shoots of air pocket and to

me am ever so fearful of it. because the first exposure to it was of

somethings that didnot understand and when he to shooted of it to a

group member with permission of that member and i to seen of hims hair

blow up it triggered to me a lasting fear of it now and even to this

day am fearful of that toy....so see even as adults can still have

fears but for me if is if logic does not make sense to me from the

level of my own intellect and knowing.

Sondra