Peter Attia· MD
the behavior therapy approach to this or the cognitive behavioral therapy approach to this would be to teach people competing thoughts so rather than thinking this thing will kill me um i can learn to have thoughts like um i can tolerate this uh this might be difficult but i can i can handle it or even have thoughts like this is not going to kill me um but those thoughts were only one part of it the other piece of it was the more behavioral piece which is uh exposure basically saying that how you're going to get over your fear of spiders is not to talk about it every week for an hour with somebody but it's actually going to be coming into contact with spiders repeatedly over and over again