Exposure - Face Your Fears 1.1
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Free Version
Publisher Description
Overcome your fears with this proven therapeutic technique!
Features:
• Enter your own personal fear
• Create a fear hierarchy
• Complete exposure tasks while live updating your anxiety levels
Effective against:
• Phobias (snakes, spiders, heights, flying, etc.)
• Social anxiety disorder
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Panic disorder
• Generalized anxiety disorder
• Obsessive-compulsive disorders
Overview:
Exposure therapy is one of psychology's greatest, most effective treatment tools that have been discovered over the past few decades. A key technique in behavior therapy for anxiety, exposure therapy involves gradually exposing someone to their feared object, situation, or task without any danger in order to overcome their anxiety. This app enables people to go through exposure therapy.
Before exposure, users first create a fear hierarchy - a list of activities that induce anxiety ranked from highest to lowest. Then, they work through the activities in the fear hierarchy, starting with the least anxiety-inducing activity and working their way up.
Warning: We highly recommend using this app under the guidance of a mental health professional.
Detailed Guide:
Many people with phobias recognize their fear as illogical, but their mind is still afraid nonetheless. This is because the primal fear centers of our mind act subconsciously whenever it spots anything it thinks is dangerous (such as lions or snakes) in order to escape immediately. However, in today's modern society when we don't have to worry about predators eating us, our minds can often trigger false alarms to things that aren't actually dangerous.
The fear center of our mind learns through association, not logic. If you were afraid of pigeons, every time you see a pigeon your fear would rise. Then when you run away, your mind becomes even more convinced that a pigeon is dangerous because you ran away, your fear levels dropped, and you were safe. This cycle repeats itself, sustaining the illogical fear until maybe you avoid going to certain places because there might be pigeons there.
To break this fear, the mind needs to learn to un-associate pigeons with fear. Luckily, the mind can only sustain a fear response for so long. So if you go to where pigeons are and just stay there instead of running away, eventually your mind will learn that pigeons are not actually dangerous. The most important principle is to make sure that the fear leaves before you do.
This app helps you break the fear. First, add what you are afraid of and then construct a list of activities that will induce various levels of anxiety. Then, you can start exposing yourself by doing these activities starting from what gives you the least amount of anxiety. During the exposure process, you can track your anxiety levels by updating it continuously, and finish when it falls to 20/100 or lower. As you work your away through the activities, your fear should continue to fall!
Warning: We highly recommend using this app under the guidance of a mental health professional. If you leave the activity before your anxiety falls, then this will actually reinforce your fear instead of lowering it. Try starting with the easiest activity first. Going straight to a challenging task might actually increase your fear. It is very difficult to stay in a situation when your entire body is screaming at you to leave, especially if there is no person there coaxing you to stay and wait.
Nov 10, 2017
Version 1.1
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
iPhone X support
Minor text optimizations
About Exposure - Face Your Fears
Exposure - Face Your Fears is a free app for iOS published in the Health & Nutrition list of apps, part of Home & Hobby.
The company that develops Exposure - Face Your Fears is Inquiry Health LLC. The latest version released by its developer is 1.1.
To install Exposure - Face Your Fears on your iOS device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2017-11-10 and was downloaded 2 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Exposure - Face Your Fears as malware if the download link is broken.
How to install Exposure - Face Your Fears on your iOS device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to the App Store.
- Once the Exposure - Face Your Fears is shown in the iTunes listing of your iOS device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the GET button to the right of the app to start downloading it.
- If you are not logged-in the iOS appstore app, you'll be prompted for your your Apple ID and/or password.
- After Exposure - Face Your Fears is downloaded, you'll see an INSTALL button to the right. Tap on it to start the actual installation of the iOS app.
- Once installation is finished you can tap on the OPEN button to start it. Its icon will also be added to your device home screen.
