prolonged exposure
Sustained time with
Prolonged exposure is extended contact with something over time, often implying risk or therapeutic intent.
In medicine and psychology, it names a treatment for PTSD where patients gradually confront trauma-related memories and situations: Prolonged exposure therapy helped her process the assault.
In other contexts, it describes cumulative contact with harmful substances or conditions: Prolonged exposure to asbestos causes lung disease.
- chronicPersisting over time
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- radiationEnergy propagation through space
- sunburnUV-induced skin inflammation
- sun damageHarm from UV exposure
skin cancer · weathered · wear and tear · desensitization · stress response · therapy · PTSD · mental health · anxiety disorder · faded · worn · stress · cumulative · built up · duration · endurance · gradual · slow burn
- therapy techniquesCBT, play therapy, art therapy, group therapy, behavior modification
- exposureoverexposure, underexposure, aperture, ISO, shutter speed
- trauma therapyEMDR, trauma processing, trauma therapy, PTSD treatment, CPT
- therapypsychotherapy, therapist, session, counselor, group therapy
- psychiatric carepsychotherapy, psychiatry, psychiatrist, medication, therapy
prolonged exposuresheltering
Protecting from elements
isolation · insulation · quarantine · containment · buffer
prolong, prolongation, prolonged, prolongs, prolonging, longer, longest, lengthen, elongate