There are some people who have, who are dealing with different uno psychological issues that earn a lot of psychological pain, and they self harm. Is there any therapeutic value too purposely scaring someone if, for example, they had p t s d or some other kind of trama in their life? Does more trama, but control help get em out of it? Or d you just avoid it altogether? Yn, that's part of what exposure therebeis about, said the tht that's the term i was looking for there. The an intensity to it, that's also, there's something pleasurable about it.
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