Editing Fear (section)

=== Psychological ===
[[Cognitive behavioral therapy]] has been successful in helping people overcome their fear. Because fear is more complex than just forgetting or deleting [[memory|memories]], an active and successful approach involves people repeatedly confronting their fears. By confronting their fears in a safe manner a person can suppress the "fear-triggering memories" or stimuli.<ref name="Kaplan">{{cite journal | vauthors = Kaplan JS, Tolin DF |year=2011 |title=Exposure therapy for anxiety disorders: Theoretical mechanisms of exposure and treatment strategies |journal=Psychiatric Times |volume=28 |issue=9 |pages=33–37|id={{ProQuest|894207776}} }}</ref>

[[Exposure therapy]] has known to have helped up to 90% of people with specific [[phobias]] to significantly decrease their fear over time.<ref name=Travis>{{cite journal | vauthors = Travis J | year = 2004 | title = Fear not: Scientists are learning how people can unlearn fear | journal = Science News | volume = 165 | issue = 3 | pages = 42–44 | jstor =  4014925| doi = 10.2307/4014925}}</ref><ref name="Kaplan"/>

Another psychological treatment is [[systematic desensitization]], which is a type of behavior therapy used to completely remove the fear or produce a disgusted response to this fear and replace it. The replacement that occurs will be relaxation and will occur through conditioning. Through conditioning treatments, muscle tensioning will lessen and deep breathing techniques will aid in de-tensioning.