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A common way to think about

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any temporary symptom increases

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that you might have

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is soreness that you might experience

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after a heavy workout at the gym.

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Especially after you haven't been at the gym

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for quite some time, you may experience

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a tightness or a soreness in certain muscle groups

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that you have worked out heavily.

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Oftentimes, the impulse is to then say,

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"That didn't feel good.

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I'm not going back to the gym again

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because I'm sore the next day afterwards," when, in fact,

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the opposite is true -- that the more you exercise those muscles,

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the less sore you will be in subsequent gym sessions.

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It's the same thing

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with doing the writing in Written Exposure Therapy,

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that even though you might experience

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a temporary symptom increase at the beginning,

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as you do more writing sessions, you will note that

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you will no longer experience that symptom increase.