Do you ever notice that when you avoid something that you fear, the feared situation or object in your mind's eye is often much scarier than when you actually confront it?
An Interesting article in Psychology Today details how even one session of intense exposure therapy to target phobias can change our brain's responses to the feared stimuli. The study claims that even six months after the therapy, subjects actually "saw" the feared object differently. Perhaps, it is all just a matter of perception, after all.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-other-side-normal/201206/your-brain-psychotherapy
An Interesting article in Psychology Today details how even one session of intense exposure therapy to target phobias can change our brain's responses to the feared stimuli. The study claims that even six months after the therapy, subjects actually "saw" the feared object differently. Perhaps, it is all just a matter of perception, after all.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-other-side-normal/201206/your-brain-psychotherapy
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