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The Differential Between Our Expectations and Our Actual Experience
For exposure therapy to work, you need a big enough differential between how bad you think it is and how bad it actually is. The research on it shows that we remember our expectations much better than we remember our actual experience. So if I'm afraid of something happening and it's not that bad, afterwards, what I remember much more clearly is my fear of the experience rather than it being not so bad.