Has anyone built an exposure hierarchy to caffeine or stimulants. 


With panic disorder it is tough to do exposures that will evoke close to the same experience that I have in stressful situations. Its hard to recreate a spike.

If I use caffeine it gets me to those effects felt during challenging anxiety, but then I'm on a full blown exposure for 6 hours till it wears off.

Any suggestions or tips? 

Exposures for caffeine or stimulants.

Somatic OCD

"Pure" OCD

I had a fear of caffeine for other OCD reasons.  I started with decaffeinated then worked up from there.  If you are just using it to create a spike there are other methods - spinning in a chair, breathing quickly through a straw.  You could try looking up interceptives on the internet and see if other ideas come up that you can  use.

Exposures for caffeine or stimulants.

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