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With these principles in mind, for all these steps to conquer your fears, create a list of ways to

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face your fears, include items on your list that very difficult, be as creative as you can to come

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up with a variety of situations that would trigger your fear.

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Raytown difficulty.

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Each one would be make your best guess about how much distress you would feel in each situation as zero

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to 10 scale tends to work well, but use different scale if you prefer.

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See the example that follows.

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Arrange your items in descending order of difficulty.

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This ordered list of exposure ideas is called your hierarchy.

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You might build your hierarchy in a spreadsheet to make it easy to work with.

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As you review this, do you notice any big gaps in your numbers, like a jump from a two to a seven?

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If so, look for ways to modify your items to make them easier or harder so you can add intermediate

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items.

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For example, doing a difficult activity with a loved one can make it more manageable and can facilitate

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a transition to doing it on your own.

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For example, Jackson was determined to overcome his fear of driving an abbreviated version of his exposure

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hierarchy.

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It looked like this activity drive on the expressway lawn discomfort lifted nine drive on the expressway

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with a friend.

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Sevigne drive to work.

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Six Drive to the grocery store for a drive in my neighborhood for sit in a driver's seat and Barkett

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car to.