The Best Way to Get Over Your Fears

Researchers have been experimenting with exposure therapy in order to ease one’s fears! How effective is it? Trace is here to explain what makes this technique so excellent.

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Prolonged Exposure Therapy
“After a traumatic event, many individuals experience distress and symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This distress may be highest when dealing with memories, thoughts, feelings, and situations that are related to the trauma.”

Exposure Therapy for Fears and Phobias
“Exposure Therapy has been shown to be the most effective anxiety treatment for people with many anxiety disorders. You might already know that it involves practicing with what you fear, in order to become less afraid. But how does it work?”

Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
“ICT’s virtual reality exposure therapy is aimed at providing relief from post-traumatic stress.”

Effectiveness of virtual reality exposure therapy for active duty soldiers in a military mental health clinic
“Exposure therapy is an evidence-based treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but research evaluating its effectiveness with active duty service members is limited.”

Virtual reality exposure therapy for active duty soldiers
“Virtual reality exposure (VRE) therapy is a promising treatment for a variety of anxiety disorders and has recently been extended to the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).”

Evolution of human emotion: a view through fear
“Basic tendencies to detect and respond to significant events are present in the simplest single cell organisms and persist throughout all invertebrates and vertebrates.”

What is Exposure Therapy?
“Exposure therapy is a specific type of cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy technique that is often used in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and phobias.”

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my fears

1.) spiders
2.)roaches
3.)any kind of

[Mscookie]

I'm afraid of all bugs, insects, and rodents. I'm even afraid of flies, but not to the extent of alarming the public around me

[zaleahabullard]

my fears
spiders
heights
bees
wasps
big groups of teen boys
cleaning my room

[lukebeciraj]

If there is anything I learned from Batman, you must become your fear.

[David-gjqr]

I've watched two horror movies form beginning to end in the movie theater I still get scared of horror movies and horror stuff in genral

[skeletonderp]

I don't have any phobias but I always feel paranoid each time I'm in a dark place

[biancarenee]

my fears...
1. veins
2. spiders
3. any kind of insects
4. my parents when angry
5. homework
6. being home alone for too long

[jugarnaut]

Definitely works. A friend had me keep his tarantula for a month. Was moderately afraid of spiders. Slowly worked my way up to holding her, now I have my own tarantula. I still hate small spiders like brown recluse and whatnot. I'll never get over the fear of a necrotizing spider bite.

[stephaniesmith]

My fear? Speaking in front of large groups of people. I'm terrified of it, and I get really nervous. People say "the more you do it, the easier it becomes", but the fear stays the same every time. I wish I could get over it though, because I'm a debater/good speaker at heart. I just can't speak in front of people xD

[AceTekGuardian]

ill pick up a spider


only to throw it into a campfire


then to feed it to my pet bird after its cooked

[ayo__ayo]

I'm going to cure you from your fear of ghosts and the dark. Here, put on the Occulus Rift and play PT.

[LittleMissArabXX]

I've always been scared of heights. That's part of the reason why I'm going skydiving in March. :D ^^ 

[kentsgamingchannel]

My fear is giving my test to my parents, please help me, thanks;)

[nameme]

I have a huge fear of red centipede and i just happen to see one in my room today

[Shezmen]

..Especially in this terrorism crisis moment, it really sounds like a subtle way of recruiting. But again, just my opinion guys.

[chasealbritton]

This may be a strange fear, but I have a fear of losing my memories. The fact that it may happen to me one day when I’m older has been stressing me out the past few weeks.

[naromngin]

I fear beautiful ladies

Anyone want to help me get over my fear?

[gameboy]

Mine's simple, the fear of asking a girl out....so by logic I could get over it by...asking a girl out?

[OswaldDigestiveClinic]

I just got rid of my life-long fear of mice! So great seeing others sharing tools that can help! I know so many people w/ fear of spiders.

[deathnotelover]

Not scared of spiders but terrified of roaches. Shouldn't be be because the ones in North America don't normally bite. Only when they are extremely hungry. (They tend to bite finger nails the most.) They do however fly around when you try to kill them and want to land on you! Ugh once one flew and landed on me and I almost had a panic attack.