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EP166 - Sexual Orientation OCD with Dr. Menije Boduryan-Turner

Sexology

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The Number One Thing You Can Do Tolerate Anxiety

E r p is exposure response prevention. You expose yourself to your feared stimuli, whatever the thought or trigger that makes you anxious. And then you wan't to avoid doing the compulsions and tolerate anxiety. So for example, when you were just speaking of the denial, you do e r p around being in denial. Other exposure activities might be intentionally watching things that are bith same sex t same sex attraction, or opposite sex attraction if you identify as homosexual. Reading articles about somebody coming out at the age of 70 and what it would be like if they only accepted it earlier in their life. I mean, you go towards your worst fears.

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