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The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast

EP 0038 - Anxiety 101 : Exposure Therapy Basics and Expectations

The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast

Drew Linsalata

Anxiety Attacks, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Health Anxiety, Agoraphobia, Anxiety Help, Panic Attacks, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Ocd, Mental Health

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Today Billy and I talk about the basics of what exposure therapy is, how it fits into the overall scope of Cognitive Behavior Therapy, and how its important to have proper expectations for what exposure can do for you. Near the end of the episode we take some time to answer questions and comments from past episodes. My Links https://theanxioustruth.com/links Intro/Outro Music: "Afterglow" by The Ben Drake Collective. Used with permission. Find Ben Drake on Facebook or at ben...

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0:00.0

Okay, we are back. What's up everybody Drew here at that anxiety guy dot com along with the

0:06.3

supreme Jedi?

0:07.3

Billy cross from anxiety united dot com in the UK.

0:12.1

The supreme Jedi it's a long story, but it's a funny one.

0:15.0

Yes.

0:16.0

I'm not telling it.

0:18.0

Yeah, thanks for stopping by for our next episode here.

0:22.0

Today we are going to talk about exposure therapy.

0:25.0

It's a big topic if you are having anxiety and panic type issues.

0:30.0

And we could probably do an entire series on this

0:32.0

because it's a big giant topic and we should.

0:35.0

Today we're really just going to focus on an intro, like what is exposure therapy?

0:40.0

We were talking before we went live about how amazing it is that some people have never actually even heard of it

0:45.5

Yeah, I posted in a Facebook group

0:47.8

Yeah, somebody asked how they could start to you know make progress with their agrophobia.

0:53.7

My response was exposure therapy.

0:55.8

And then their response to that a couple of hours later,

0:58.5

what is exposure therapy?

1:00.5

That was just like...

1:01.5

It's amazing, right? Because we've got so much experience with it, you know, and we're well familiar with the term. But we were talking before maybe because it's sort of part and parcel of CBT, maybe people don't actually see that as a separate thing.

1:15.9

Although I suppose they are intertwined, it's just when you get offered CBT,

1:20.7

you think therapy, you think sitting in a room.

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