Imagining the worst that can happen through dedicated 'worry time’ can help stop anxiety in its tracks.
ome 2,000 years ago, in the throes of a targeted chase to his death, a Roman philosopher named Seneca had a thought: “what’s the worst that can happen?”
As a subset of cognitive behavioral therapy , imaginal exposure relies on simple logic. Just as anxiety is created in your head, it can also be squashed in your head. And even though the most effective anxiety treatment is administered by a mental health professional over a long period of time, a growing brigade of psychologists are finding ways to help people do imaginal exposure in their own homes, on their own terms.
“They believed in a god who was rather distant and not interested in the daily life of humans,” says Crocq, who hasthe topic. “So they tried to understand the world and human functioning with a more materialist scientific approach.” Dr. Steffan Hofmann, a professor of psychology and director of the Psychotherapy & Emotion Research Laboratory at Boston University, has proven this empirically and, like Crocq, has studied the theory’s deep historical roots. He references the ancient Greek philosopher, Epictetus, who wrote: “Men are not moved by things, but the view they take of them.”
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