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Bobertron comments on Need some psychology advice - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: Kenoubi 27 February 2013 05:03PM

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Comment author: Bobertron 27 February 2013 07:04:57PM 4 points [-]

I think that CBT techniques could be helpful. They tend to be about reasoning things out on paper in a structured manner.

You could work on realistically assessing how likely the feared result is, and on assuring yourself that, even if it happened, you could cope with it.