believing that pictures/the month can harm me

From my personal experience this seems like what makes emotional response training worth doing. Subdividing it down into manageable pieces and exposing yourself to them for small, stopping and setting a timer, and waiting for the anxiety to pass. If you haven’t done it before it may seem trivial at first, but as you work on it over time it becomes more and more manageable. You can endure longer amounts of time, then work up to more intense exposure, which by the time you get there you’ll realize it’s not as anxiety inducing as you’d thought it would be when you had started. My initial thoughts are maybe starting with the term “solar eclipse,” or maybe a definition of a solar eclipse, then later reading the Wikipedia page for solar eclipse, then later maybe a still image of a solar eclipse, and then maybe later footage of a solar eclipse. Something along those lines. Maybe articles about blue light as well, but more later on. In terms of actual health concerns, dimming your screen-light and lowering screen-time is beneficial. Using the yellow “night time” color adjustment helps with the exposure to blue light. I should be clear: blue light is not a “bad thing.” The sun emits blue light and so do modern lights and electronics. The concern with blue light exposure is the long, continuous, unbroken, hours-at-a-time that people are prone to do with electronic devices. Which doesn’t in itself cause overnight crazy damage. It’s the years on end hours-at-a-time use that can have potential negative effects, like any overdone activity. Which leads into my final note. I’ve actually driven out and seen a solar eclipse in person. It was pretty cool! Here’s the thing about solar eclipses. The total eclipse lasts a grand total of 10ish minutes. The partial eclipse of the sun lasts for a couple hours before hand and a couple hours afterward. People want to see it and many aren’t able to be in the total eclipse trajectory, so they can only see the partial eclipse, the moon being kinda on the side of the Sun. That right there is where the concern about eye damage arrives. People don’t have UV glasses but want to see the partial eclipse anyway, so they stare directly at the sun with their bare eyes for seconds if not minutes at a time. On any other day staring directly at the sun is considered a very stupid idea, but people do it because it’s kinda dimmed? So they can get away with staring at it longer than normal, but the staring at the sun aspect has not gone away. Most if not every image you will see of an eclipse is a total eclipse AT totality, which is the only part of a solar eclipse that WON’T cause eye damage. You don’t see many photos of partial eclipses because they’re REALLY hard to take. It’d be like shining a flashlight directly into the camera lens. I hope this was somewhat helpful or useful in some way. I’d still recommend doing the ERP work, but I would also keep in mind that the people getting eye damage from solar eclipses are getting it during partial eclipses where they are staring at the sun. It’d be like turning on two flashlights and staring directly into them lol. No one’s eyes are meant to do that Good luck and you’ve got this 👍