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Re:The benefits of staying off social media by watwut on Monday November 08, 2021 @03:03PM (#29153547)
Exposure therapy is not the same as randomly triggering the person. It is not going into situations where you will fail either. It is quite deliberate process where you expose person to dose the the person can handle with some difficulty and then you give them break to recover.
Re:The benefits of staying off social media by Domenic_S on Monday November 08, 2021 @03:16PM (#29153698)
There are many strategies and pacing that exposure therapy can take (the link I provided has several examples); the slow, deliberate process you describe is one of them, as is what's being described upthread.
Re:The benefits of staying off social media by watwut on Monday November 08, 2021 @03:42PM (#29153954)
If you don't do it deliberately, it is not therapy tho.

And there is effect of becoming oversensitive when encountering strong stressor randomly and often. I stead of getting less sensitive people can start reacting more aggressively at smaller threat.

Re:The benefits of staying off social media by Domenic_S on Monday November 08, 2021 @06:16PM (#29155596)
Saying to yourself, "I will respond with 1 line of dialog to the next person who hits me up" is deliberate, although the event itself will come randomly.

Your train of thought here reflects classic avoidant behavior -- it's not therapeutic unless I'm in control of all the variables. Certainly you're correct depending on the type of fear being extinguished -- dropping buckets of spiders randomly on someone afraid of spiders isn't likely to help things at all, nor is dropping someone with GAD in the middle of a crowded concert -- but for the particular phobia (social anxiety) and exposure (small talk with strangers in public) we're talking about in this thread, it's definitely the low-stakes kind of exposure exposure therapy aims to provide.