It was Friday again. I'm starting to hate that class. The class is fine, it's just that I come out feeling depressed every time. Fortunately, it happens in the morning so I recover fairly quickly too.
Anyway, as I was walking home (this was a whole 7 hours later), I thought about what the hell the problem was. I'm a programmer, and I've solved heck of a lot more difficult problems than this one so figuring out the problem wasn't too difficult. The prognosis? It's what psychiatrists would call a "phobia". A what-phobia I don't know. But it's an irrational fear, and that's what a phobia is. So I started thinking back to when I took "Abnormal Psychology" and tried to remember what the treatments for phobia were... The only ones I could remember were Systematic Desensitization and Shock Therapy.
- Systematic Desensitization: Basically, you take baby steps. If you're afraid of spiders, first you get used to being in the same room as one. Then you try to touch with the 10 yard stick. Then with a yard stick. Then a pencil and so on until you've overcome your fear.
- Shock Therapy: They make you face whatever it is that you're afraid of, and once you've come out alive, you supposedly realize that it really isn't so bad.
Twitdom continues...
Posted Wed, April 28, 2004 03:17 by Gay Hitchhiker
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