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As we told you earlier, Sally’s fear of public bathrooms is an example of a fear that has overlap between anxiety and sound sensitivity. She is worried about germs, but she is also anxious about going into public restrooms because of how loud hand-dryers and flushing toilets are.
Here is an example of a mission plan that Sally could use to tackle her fear of public restrooms (PDF version):
| Step | Anxiety Rating 0-10 OR Easy | Medium | Hard |
Reward/Brave Bucks |
|---|---|---|
| Sally watches a video of a toilet flushing or a hand dryer turning on with the sound very low. | 1 | 1 Brave Buck |
| Sally listens to audio of toilets flushing and hand dryers turning on from outside of the bathroom at home. | 5 | 2 Brave Bucks |
| Sally listens to audio of toilets flushing and hand dryers turning on while in the bathroom at home. | 5 | 2 Brave Bucks |
| Sally goes inside a public restroom that is a single person restroom and does not have an automatic toilet or automatic hand dryer (she does not have to use the restroom). | 6 | 3 Brave Bucks |
| Sally uses a single person public restroom that does not have an automatic toilet or automatic hand dryer | 7 | 3 Brave Bucks |
| With her mom and while wearing noise cancelling headphones, Sally goes inside a single person public restroom that does have an automatic toilet or automatic hand dryer (she does not have to use the restroom), mom will wash and dry her hands. | 8 | 4 Brave Bucks |
| With her mom and while wearing noise cancelling headphones, Sally goes inside a single person public restroom that does have an automatic toilet and automatic hand dryer (she does not have to use the restroom), mom will flush the toilet. | 8 | 4 Brave Bucks |
| With her mom and while wearing noise cancelling headphones, Sally goes inside a single person public restroom that does have an automatic toilet and automatic hand dryer. Sally will wash and dry her hands (but does not have to use the restroom). | 9 | 5 Brave Bucks |
| While wearing noise cancelling headphones, Sally goes inside a single person public restroom that does have an automatic toilet and automatic hand dryer. Sally will use the restroom and wash and dry hands. | 9 | 5 Brave Bucks |
