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		tangent128 on Aug 25, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: University of Chicago: ‘We Do Not Support So-Calle... Exposure therapy can be effective, but under controlled circumstances as supervised by a professional and prepared for by the patient. Uncontrolled exposure is more likely to worsen the anxiety than extinguish it.

aninhumer on Aug 25, 2016 [–]

I feel like the idea the parent was suggesting is that avoidance behaviour itself can increase anxiety about the topic, and that encouraging it may end up being more harmful than the risk of uncontrolled exposure, especially when the result of such exposure is not necessarily negative.

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