Posted by Dinah on April 29, 2013, at 20:17:06
In reply to Re: 1-10 » Dinah, posted by SLS on April 29, 2013, at 8:00:24
Mine is for anxiety, so the zero would be a total lack of anxiety, feeling fine, etc.
But if 10 is the worst I've felt, it makes most of the other numbers worthless, since the idea is to rate how anxiety each stimulus (photo, video, audio recording)raises. Then you watch it over and over until you have anxiety rating below 3, or sometimes 0.
Last time, if I rated based on racing heart or fast breathing or even tense muscles, my rating wouldn't really be all that high. But if you go by recurring intrusive images for the rest of the day, it was higher than that. Really, the thing that helped me with the intrusive images was turning my attention (and irritation) to the rating system itself.
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