Changchun Youth Psychological Counseling Case:
Jingjing is a primary school student who will soon be entering the fifth grade. Every day as it gets dark, she dares not go out, and even when she is alone at home, she would feel an inexplicable fear and horror. Why does Yingying dare not go out when it gets dark? When she was four years old, her mother started early education on her. She first played the violin, then learned to draw, read English, and do arithmetic. Although Jingjing could play the violin intermittently, her musical sense was not strong, and it was not obvious that she had a talent for music. Practicing the violin every night for Jingjing was like being tortured because if she did not meet the requirements, her mother would beat her palms or lock her in a dark room. At this time, her mother would say angrily: "If you don't practice the violin well, I don't want you anymore, let the wolf eat you." Or she would say: "Let the ghost take you away when it gets dark." This scared Jingjing so much that she cried and screamed desperately. Therefore, now she dare not go out when it gets dark. Changchun Youth Psychological Counseling Analysis: Jingjing's reaction belongs to a typical fear emotional response. Some people are particularly afraid of small animals, such as mice, dogs, rabbits; some people are afraid of cars while walking on the road; some people are afraid of climbing higher stairs; many people are afraid of meeting strangers or guests, etc. In these fears, some are normal phenomena, such as people generally being a little shy of strangers and feeling a bit afraid when they see unfamiliar people; some are abnormal, such as being afraid of climbing stairs or seeing cars. Fear is one of the primitive emotions shared by humans and animals. It refers to the emotional experience when an individual faces and attempts to escape from a dangerous situation but feels incapable of doing so. When fear occurs, there are often actions of retreating or avoiding, accompanied by abnormally excited behaviors and physiological reactions, such as increased heart rate, hair standing up, screaming, and strange facial expressions, etc. The factors that cause fear are multifaceted, such as unexpected changes in familiar environments, sudden occurrence of strange, unfamiliar, and terrifying events, darkness, loud noises, bad people, loss of balance, and being infected by others' fear emotions, etc. Changchun Youth Psychological Counseling suggests that parents and teachers change their erroneous educational methods and adopt correct ones, which is also one of the important methods to overcome fear psychology.