Exposure Therapy HACKS to Help Overcome Your Anxiety | Dr. Rami Nader

Exposure therapy is the most effective treatment for anxiety. It involves you facing your fears and learning how to cope with whatever it is that you are anxious about. But what do you do when facing your fears is not working and you continue to experience anxiety? This video discusses the most common problems people experience when doing exposure therapy and ways of making exposure therapy as effective as it can be. It’s the difference between typical everyday types of exposures people do, versus therapeutic exposures, which specifically address anxiety.

Typical everyday exposure and therapeutic exposures differ in a number of ways, including:
1) Predictability and controllability of the exposure.
2) Duration of the exposure.
3) Frequency of exposures.
4) How a person thinks during the exposures.
5) Safety behaviors and subtle ways of avoiding during exposure therapy.
6) Willingness to accept fear and anxiety during exposure.
7) Defining what determines success from the exposure.

By ensuring that you are engaging in therapeutic exposure, you can increase the effectiveness of exposure therapy in helping you overcome anxiety conditions.

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