Overcoming Anxiety
Anxiety can spiral out of control, leading to paralyzing fear and stress. For those with PTSD, exposure therapy offers a path to recovery by creating new, positive memories that compete with traumatic ones. This process helps individuals reframe their experiences, allowing them to confront fears and regain a sense of control.In this clip
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Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas, stating that first, you need to extinguish the fear or trauma by retelling the narrative. The whole point of that is to diminish the physiological response, right? If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if a 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?
In the episode, Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas, stating that first you need to extinguish the fear or trauma by retelling the narrative. If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, would changing the physiological response immediately after being triggered diminish the physiological response over time?
For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, but every time they see the spider or get activated through some trigger, and immediately after use breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?