This man might just be casually spinning in his office chair, but this same action is part of interoceptive exposure: The therapist intentionally tries to elicit from the patient the bodily sensations associated with panic so that he or she can habituate to those sensations and not respond with fear. Dizziness, for example, is associated with panic, so a therapist may have a patient repeatedly spin around to experience, and thus habituate to, dizziness in a safe, controlled environment. People receiving interoceptive exposure perform each of the exercises listed in this table for the indicated duration; such exercises are likely to elicit sensations typically associated with panic. After each exercise, they rate how intense the sensations were, their level of anxiety while doing the exercise, and how similar the sensations were to panic symptoms.
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