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So Prolonged Exposure is actually pretty simple.
But that doesn't mean that it's easy.
And in Prolonged Exposure, what you would do is
revisit in your mind the trauma
in a very repeated, prolonged fashion, in a controlled way,
to achieve several goals.
So in processing the memory by confronting it as opposed to
avoiding it, it's not just that the memory
no longer has a hold on you when you think about it,
but it also results in you feeling less scared in general
and more confident in general and able to confront
other feared things and other distressing things,
like going out in public, and developing close relationships
or redeveloping close relationships, and reaching goals
that you might have been putting off.
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