Episode 98: All About Exposure for Anxiety
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
This episode is actually ripped from a long video that I recorded. I have been thinking a lot about exposure for anxiety lately for multiple reasons. For one, I'm in the middle of creating my online course for anxiety and recently wrote the content for the module on exposure. I have also been frustrated by people that I see in my clinical practice who have gone through years of therapy for their anxiety, but never engaged in exposure treatment for their anxiety.
Research indicates that exposure is a vital component of successful anxiety treatment. It's about facing your anxiety head on and teaching your body to stop reacting so strongly to it.
In this episode, I talk about exposure in general and then break down two methods for gaining exposure and increasing your tolerance for anxiety.
If you'd like to submit a question for a future episode, send it over to duffthepsych@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:04.0 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general, |
| 0:08.2 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:10.4 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:17.0 | So please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely but feel free to feel it |
| 0:24.4 | out check out the episode and just see what happens if you need to skip that's okay |
| 0:27.6 | but you know feel free to give it a shot first I also need to say that while I am a |
| 0:32.0 | psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 0:35.0 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 0:40.0 | So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All right. Hello, friends of all varietiesieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 98. |
| 1:06.5 | I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, a psychologist from Southern California, and the author of the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 1:11.6 | book series. And today's episode is going to be a in the author of the Hardcore South Help Book Series. |
| 1:13.0 | And today's episode is going to be a deep dive. |
| 1:16.0 | If you're new to the show, I kind of alternate between a few different formats. |
| 1:20.0 | Most of the time I do question and answer format, |
| 1:22.0 | where I answer questions that you guys send |
| 1:24.1 | into me about mental health and related sort of topics. You can send me your questions to |
| 1:29.3 | Duff the psych at gmail.com for future episodes and then on other days I do deep dive |
| 1:34.0 | episodes where I just pick a single topic and sort of riff on that. Now today's |
| 1:38.2 | it's going to be a little bit different and I want your honest feedback about |
| 1:41.5 | this if you do have any because I don't have to do this again, |
| 1:45.0 | but the opportunity presented itself where I was really interested in recording a video about a specific topic and it was going to be a longer video so I thought maybe I can double dip and you know make a video out of it for my YouTube channel but also use the audio here as a podcast so what you're going to be hearing is just the ripped audio from the video that I did. And today is all about exposure treatment for anxiety. So I talk a lot about it, all the different ways of going about it and exactly what it is and how it's useful |
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