Being Oh-so-brave
Posted on Понедельник, Март 29th, 2010 at 22:29So, today was my first time at the dentist’s. I had one tooth drilled and filled. It wasn’t too much painful even without anaesthetic. I’m a brave hero and I’m proud of myself!
I even had the opportunity to study human behaviour at the dentist’s. As far as it was a children dental surgery, it was interesting to make some observations about children and their parents there.
For example, the fact that people are afraid of dentists seems to have its roots in the following situation:
There is a queue of children near the surgery, some of them are nervous, some are rather cheerful and calm. But suddenly a horrible scream comes from behind the door. Someone is crying. Why? They do something horrible to him! Mum, I’m afraid, I don’t want to go there!!
But there behind the door nothing happens. The boy who is shouting doesn’t let the dentist to do anything. He is just screaming, sitting on the chair. His mother is shouting at him. He is crying and going into hysteric. But it has nothing to do with pain.
A funny situation:
A boy has just had his tooth pulled out. His mouth is in blood, his eyes are full of tears. Guess what his mother tells him:
-None of this would have happened if you cleaned you teeth.
The very words he needed, I suppose.
You are very brave! I’m proud of you too!
I was very afraid of dentists in childhood, or not dentists.. I was afraid of pain, but it was somehow a shame to me to be afraid of a pain, I do not know why, therefore I courageously suffered all probations
Let’s speak about it, it’s interesting.
If you can and if it’s OK to you, try to recollect the reason for your fear of pain. What was so painful?
Hm.. I don’t remember actually, you know, I’m still afraid of pain, but still suffer it courageously – without any screams, tears or something else. Is it anything from childhood? I really can’t recollect.