Exposure therapy

“Have you ever heard of shock therapy?” Jennifer asked.

Lauren nodded. “Yeah… but I don’t want to be tased.”

“I’m not going to tase you,” Jennifer said. “But I want to take a similar approach, a similar concept. The idea of shock therapy is basically to overwhelm you until your brain sees that it’s okay. So… I want to take the exposure therapy measure which follows the same concept. In this case, it’ll be a much more literal exposure therapy.”

Lauren’s eyes widened. “W-wait… you don’t mean…”

“I want you to spend 7 days. Just 7 days completely naked. You can go about your day as normal, but you can’t wear clothes. In fact, I’m going to lock these clothes in a safe so you can’t get to them. I want you to keep a journal too. At the end of each day, spend just 5 minutes documenting what happened, how it made you feel, and so on,” Jennifer said. “Then on this day next week, we will meet again this time for just a one hour session and we will go over the next steps.”

Lauren whimpered. “D-do you think this would actually work?”

Jennifer nodded. “I think it’s the right direction.”

Lauren sighed. She didn’t have much of a choice, but could she just walk outside… naked?