If the phobia is public speaking, then with a few clicks of a mouse a talk in front of an audience of thousands can be arranged – an appreciative audience who will laugh and applaud everything the patient says.
“If you have a phobia about talking in public and I tell you you’re going to give a speech in a minute, you start being apprehensive, over-thinking and then physically you find that your heart’s beating [faster],” Bouchard says.
