Titration
Titration means approaching something difficult in small, measured steps rather than all at once.
Titration is a word borrowed from chemistry, where it means adding something a little at a time until you reach the point you want. Used more broadly, it captures the value of small, measured steps over sudden ones.
The idea is that contact with something hard is more useful when it is brief and deliberate, with room afterwards to settle, than when it is prolonged and overwhelming. Staying inside what you can tolerate is what makes it possible to come back to it.
Between sessions it shows up as pacing. Reading one paragraph of what you wrote rather than the whole notebook. Telling one person rather than everyone. Stopping at the point you planned to stop, rather than at the point you cannot continue.
Titration is not avoidance, although from outside the two can look similar. The difference is that titration is deliberate contact followed by a deliberate pause, decided in advance rather than in the moment.
This page describes the general concept only. It is not guidance about any specific treatment, and any clinical adjustment belongs with your own care team.