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Treating phobias can mean facing them all at once

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The medical consensus for fixing your paralyzing fear of spiders is to essentially torture you with spiders until your brain gets exhausted. It is called flooding, and it involves subjecting you to your worst nightmare relentlessly until your nervous system literally gives up on panicking. It is highly effective, brutally traumatic, and entirely absurd.

Treating phobias can mean facing them all at once
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