The telephone ☎️ was my nemesis until I bought one on Ebay that looked like the one we used in the office. I practiced (pretended) making phone calls and receiving phone calls every day for 6 months. At the end of the 6th month, it became boring.....no more fear.....no more anxiety. When it came time to apply it to a real world application, I did it quite easily. I desensitized myself to the telephone ☎️ and now I love talking on the phone. No one knows what we go through on a daily basis and this was hard work.