Exposure therapy

We must expose ourselves to trauma in order to overcome our aversion toward it. in cognitive behavioral therapy, a treatment method called exposure therapy does just this. It is a type of treatment for trauma in which patients are exposed to the things they find upsetting (at first in small ways, such as imagining them or looking at pictures), activating their fear, and helping them habituate to the stimuli.

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References

• Lukianoff, Greg. Haidt, Jonathan. (2019). The Coddling of the American Mind Chapter 1 The Untruth of Fragility What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Weaker (Epub p. 44). New York, NY: Penguin Random House.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_therapy

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