Strategies to Overcome Stress: Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Manage and Fight Anger, Anxiety, Negativity. Methods to Feel Relief and Get a Stress Free Brain, Stop Procrastination and Addiction by King David Michael

Author:King, David Michael [King, David Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-17T16:00:00+00:00

The association between carrying out compulsive behavior that will decrease the distress.

3.9 Coping with Physical and Psychological Sensations During Exposure: Fear of ‘Losing Control’

One of the hardest parts of exposure therapy is that it involves intentionally causing anxiety. The majority of the time, the ways in which people cope with their anxiety is to avoid it altogether. The initial experience of putting yourself into an anxiety-inducing situation will feel like the worst anxiety you have ever felt. There are the physical sensations of anxiety; the shaking, the racing pulse, the sweating, take make you feel like you cannot focus and convince you that you are not in control. This mix in with psychological sensations, such as thoughts that accompany the feeling of fear. Some accompanying thoughts might include the fear of going crazy, losing control, and the basic assumption that you will not be able to cope with the feelings you are having.

The entire point of ERP is to allow you to learn that these thoughts are not true. That goes along with the previously identified cognitive distortions you noted in the previous chapter. In order to learn to cope with the associated physical and psychological sensations during exposure, you must make sure you are making a hierarchy that is reasonable, and are doing it on a daily basis. If you are seeing a therapist, you can possibly begin doing it with them. Or you can do it with a person you trust. If the concept of putting yourself in vivo (meaning ‘live’ or ‘in-person’) exposure, you can begin with your first step via imagined exposure. The process is still the same, and you must do your best to allow the anxiety to fall from its increased state to a 30 or 0 before stopping the exposure.

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