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Stairway to Confidence

Graded exposure is the practice of ranking the situations you avoid from least to most difficult, then working up the ladder one step at a time, staying with each until it settles.

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Avoidance provides immediate relief and makes the next encounter harder, which is the trap. The ladder works because each rung is chosen to be uncomfortable rather than overwhelming, and because you stay long enough for the discomfort to come down on its own rather than leaving at the peak. Leaving at the peak is what reinforces the avoidance.

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graded exposure, after Joseph Wolpe and Isaac Marks.

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