Confronting Fear with Precision: How ERP Therapy Rewires Anxiety and OCD
Fear thrives on avoidance, and avoidance keeps anxiety powerful. Exposure and Response Prevention—better known as ERP therapy—turns that cycle on its head. By carefully approaching feared situations and resisting rituals, people learn that the catastrophe they brace for rarely happens, and the distress that feels intolerable is actually survivable. This method, refined over decades, has…