Tuesday 19 July 2011

A phobia is not always a phobia

When a little girl developed a phobia of going to the playground her mum was obviously concerned.



But the crying and the fear was not a phobia at all; it was an undiagnosed brain tumour. This was only realised when the little girl Poppy started bumping into doorways and falling over.

This is as much a lesson for therapists as anyone else. Are you really working on the root cause of a client's issue or could there be a medical angle that somehow got missed?

Read the full story on the Daily Mail web site here.

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