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The Island of the Dolls

Some researchers think that manufactured fear can actually help you face real fears in your real life. When you make fear safe, it does allow you to lean into it and to a face that you'f ou've confronted the fear, that that physiological reaction, you can keep going and essentially practise being afraid. So basically we're, you know, we've just confronted a horde of zombes, so we can face our co worker to morrow.

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