From an associative learning perspective (but knowing nothing about therapy) perhaps it could be possible to train a "safe" cue as a conditioned inhibitor for secondary trigger signals that could help breaking the anxiety loop.
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"As such, there is tremendous clinical value to optimizing inhibitory learning during exposure therapy in order to both enhance treatment efficacy in general and to compensate for the deficits that are present within the anxious individual." https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2014.04.006 …pic.twitter.com/xiYsuV7uPn
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Replying to @twitemp1
So i could me misunderstanding you, but I *think* CBT might try to do what you said!
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Replying to @o_guest
I dunno. It worries me, however, that pairing a conditioned inhibitor with the excitor to be extinguished has in fact the opposite effect, it prevents extinction.
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Replying to @twitemp1
You know infinity more than me about animal learning/associative learning!
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Replying to @o_guest
Yes, I know a bit more (I hope) than you about AL but I know nothing about therapy :/
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I know very little — only what was used in practice by NHS with me.
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Replying to @o_guest
More than I. Perhaps one day you could explain the general procedure to me
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