Hi Kel,


They're the same thing - just two different names.


And yes, look at the picture until you are absolutely bored with it BEFORE moving on to a more difficult one. That's the idea. You're re-wiring synaptic connections in your brain, remember. You're not engaged in a weight-lifting competition where the goal is just to suck it up and accomplish it. So OVER AND OVER AND OVER is the idea, until your brain is hard-wired NOT to be afraid when you see the picture.


If the picture's easy enough, you should be able to actually look at it. I would NOT recommend imagining it's you at this stage. This is why emetophobes fear others vomiting - because their brains click over as though it's them (same reason people faint when they see other people losing blood). It's an identification with the victim, of sorts.


Once you can view every picture and video with no anxiety (this took me 6 months) then you can go back to the beginning and imagine it's you. But only enough to raise your anxiety to a 5/10. Any higher, and you risk it skyrocketing, which will retraumatize you, rather than help.


Good luck!