STAGE 1. Patient is taught relaxtion techniwues and breathing exercises. This helps with Reciprocal Inhibition, if when in the presnece of the stimuli, the sufferer learns to be calm they cannot be anxious at the same time.
STAGE 2. Patient creates a fear hierachy of tehir phobia, from what causes the least anxiety (e.g thinking about stimuli) to what causes most anxiety (e.g touching stimuli). This is critical because it provides a structure for the therapy.
STAGE 3. Patient makes their way up the hierachy, whilst doing the relaxation and breathing exercises. When they feel comfortable they move onto the next stage in the hierachy, if they ever feel upset they can go back to previous stages.
STAGE 4. Patient repeatedly do the hierachy until the stimuli/situation fails to evoke any anxiety. This process is repeated until the patient overcomes the most anixety-provoking situation on their hierachy.
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