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The Benefits of Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders
Exposure therapy is how we treat anxiety disorders in therapy. It's like you just figured that out on your own and ran yourself through the steps of living it over and over until you realize that the fear was a story, right? So that's brilliant to me. And then one of the things that I found doing this work over time is that that exposure therapy really works for people, right? Especially if you do it in virtual reality where you recreate their experience and people walk into that experience. The military was the first to develop it because it was really expensive back in the day. But this was the original use of technology for psychology. They've remade the experience at war that you