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
Related Questions
If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if the person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning?
For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, but every time the person sees the spider or gets activated through some trigger, and immediately after uses breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear?
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