The child will usually also benefit from greater tolerance of its fears by adults and a greater chance of the fear being treated at a level appropriate to a child's fear, which will dissipate the fear more readily. ONE major reason for such an attack is that the stimulus is actually activating a system of response to a similar thing which happened a long time ago. This can be thought of as an age regression. It can be helped enormously by treating the problem at the regressed age rather than the real age. For the client to understand the mechanism is itself a weight off the mind, because worry about the mysterious can breed further problems.
Subsequent panics are often a simple result of autosuggestion.
I've had one. I'll have another. The Child Within Please hold my hand, the little child said And hug me close, before I go to bed. Of how her body aches with tears unshed The awful fears that fill the little head. She lives in me, that child who was used For others' pleasures, broken and abused.