While avoidant behaviours often aren't ideal in isolation, they can still be part of useful recovery. If you're getting therapy for trauma, the therapy may expo

While avoidant behaviours often aren't ideal in isolation, they can still be part of useful recovery. If you're getting therapy for trauma, the therapy may expose you to triggers in a controlled fashion to help you reprocess the relevant trauma and memories (for example, using EMDR [1]). Exposure outside of the therapy can still be damaging. Not all avoidance and exposure are equal. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_and_reprocessing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_a...