PSYCH 122: Anxiety Disorders - Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy
Medlock Holmes enters an immense Victorian experimental laboratory called The Institute of Fear and Learning.
Around him, patients are trapped within apparently different mysteries.
One avoids dogs. Another fears crowded trains because a panic attack might occur. Another rehearses every sentence before speaking, terrified of humiliation. Another spends hours worrying about disasters that may never happen.
Yet Holmes notices the same mechanism running beneath them all.
Threat → Anxiety → Escape or Safety Behaviour → Relief → Stronger Future Fear.
Avoidance works remarkably well in the short…
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