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Rewiring Fear Responses
Exploring the power of language in therapy reveals that behavioral treatments like prolonged exposure therapy, cognitive processing, and cognitive behavioral therapy can significantly reduce fears and traumas. When individuals recount their traumatic experiences in detail, they often experience heightened anxiety, sometimes even more than during the original event. This process, guided by a clinician, underscores the profound impact of narrative on our nervous system.In this clip
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Erasing Fears & Traumas Based on the Modern Neuroscience of Fear | Huberman Lab Podcast #49
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How does the threat reflex work in the episode Erasing Fears & Traumas Based on the Modern Neuroscience of Fear | Huberman Lab Podcast #49 and the clip Understanding Fear Mechanisms?
How does the threat reflex work in the episode Erasing Fears & Traumas Based on the Modern Neuroscience of Fear | Huberman Lab Podcast #49 and the clip Rewiring Fear Responses?
In the episode Erasing Fears & Traumas Based on the Modern Neuroscience of Fear | Huberman Lab Podcast #49 and the clip Deliberate Stress Intervention, Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas by retelling the narrative to extinguish the fear or trauma and diminish the physiological response. If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, would changing the physiological response immediately after being triggered also diminish the physiological response over time and break the conditioning? For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, and every time they see the spider or get triggered, they use breathwork to calm their body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something in my understanding?