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When Overcoming Fears Changes Your Identity

My exposure therapy has eliminated most of my phobias but I feel like I've lost something essential about who I am and I don't know how to get it back.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Successful symptom resolution can trigger identity crisis when fears were serving as organizing principles for self-concept and life choices.

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