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Originally Posted by nicoleflynn
I don't know anything about exposure therapy,but if what she wants you to do is causing this level of anxiety, you should talk to her about that. I did my "homework" a long time ago by myself,and yes talking about it helps, but I don't know how replaying it over and over helps.
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I talked to her about it last night and told her how anxious I was feeling. She believes that the only way to reduce the anxiety is to continue exposing myself to what I've been avoiding. She doesn't want me to avoid the anxiety, but to feel all the feelings instead. I told her I needed something and she offered paced breathing.
She said that my anxiety over death is associated with my anxiety about the abuse and my "mortal fear" of it. I guess her thinking is that I'm replaying the fear I felt as a child, as an adult, but instead of applying it to the abuse, it's showing up as this. Or something like that....
I have been really honest with her about how it's affecting me.