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Anxiety Avoidance Hierarchy

A ladder from easiest to hardest

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Anxiety shrinks the life you're allowed to live. Build a ladder from easiest to hardest and take one rung this week — the belief only updates when the body goes.

The thing I've been avoiding (be concrete)
What avoidance has cost me
Rung 1 — easiest
Predicted SUDS ___ / Actual SUDS ___
Rung 2
Predicted SUDS ___ / Actual SUDS ___
Rung 3
Predicted SUDS ___ / Actual SUDS ___
Rung 4
Predicted SUDS ___ / Actual SUDS ___
Rung 5 — hardest
Predicted SUDS ___ / Actual SUDS ___
Which rung I'll do this week — when, where, with whom

References & further reading

Conceptual background and further reading, not validation of this handout. Named instruments and methods belong to their original authors; custom prompts and trackers are not validated versions of those instruments.

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