I met an engineer I’ll call “Bob” at a prediction market conference. He had been unable to get the results he wanted from 8 years of talk therapy and “1 year of actively seeking exposure to scary situations”.

He described our conversation as “like 4 years of exposure in 4 hours.”

6 months later:

Every week I’ve had some new ridiculous, fun, stupid project that I had others rallied around. It's exactly the stuff I pictured doing a long time ago but never really did

12 months later: He says he's doing great.

18 months later: He says he’s very happy and resilient, has lots of friends (and dates) now :)

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Editor’s note: Bob’s voice has been modified to preserve privacy.

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