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Salem's Lot 1979 and Salem's Lot 2024
Happy Halloween everybody! Julie's working late and the boy doesn't have school tomorrow so he's heading to one of those crazy f...
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(2007) * First of all let me say that as far as I could tell there are absolutely no dead teenagers in this entire film. Every year just ...
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Btw, this is some Japanese dvd meant to help men get over social anxiety.
What say you, our resident shrinks, is that in any way plausible?
Damn, I can't access this at work but believe it or not they were working on virtual treatments back when ac and I were in school in the 1990s. We had a virtual flight program for fear of flying and they were working on a combat on for PTSD. AC's husband might be working on some of this stuff? The cure for any anxiety disorder is exposure, exposure, exposure, so any material you can provide that will increase a patient's anxiety is good. I'll check this out when I get home. Cool!
hmm, that video didn't help my social anxiety but i think it made me the tiniest bit lesbian.
adapting current technologies to mental health applications is indeed one of husband's particular interests, and i would say this video is an example of what could serve as an exposure stimulus for social anxiety, especially if dating-related. really though you always have to customize exposure stimuli to a person's specific fears. not all social phobics are afraid of the same things.
jpx, do you agree?
I had a HUGE fear of flying for years, and this was one of the proposed treatments (the flying one, not staring women). Instead I found a combo of tons of Xanax and just getting on planes helped. Now there are more planes and less Xanax...sigh.
Miko, in the past decade only one commercial U.S. plane has crashed out of 130 million (not including 9/11)flights. Phobias are a funny thing because people never consider the odds of their feared event truly occuring. People tend to worry about the wrong things rather than things like high blood pressure or high cholesterol. I've had plenty of patients who smoke tell express having a fear of germs, etc yet never worry about inhaling deadly toxins on a daily basis.
Ac, I absoultely agree with you, there is no such thing as a "one size fits all" treatment. All treatments must be tailored to the individual.
JPX, my brother used to laugh at me, because I was OK hanging out of a helicopter on a rope, and rappelling down buildings, but was afraid to fly commercial. You're right though, the phobia had no factual basis. (Although I developed it while flying around in circles in a Thunderstorm over Detroit, the 1000 foot drops will screw with your head).
wow, miko, that's what we call "1-trial learning," eg just one really bad experience with a plane (or food or drink or animal) can yield a phobia or other type of aversion reponse. this is evolutionarily adaptive (if you believe in such things), because a creature that learns from an aversive or dangerous experience is more likely to pass on its genes.
just reading your "1000 foot drops" tale made me a mite queasy... the subsequent phobia makes perfect sense to me! :)
AC, that's funny. I used to tell people my "lizard brain" didn't like to fly. When they asked what I meant, I told them that after the caveman watched his friend Mongo carried away in the night by a Saber-tooth Tiger he knew to be afraid of the dark. I didn't know I was a clinical genius....
miko, you got the whole thing right. it is the most primitive parts of the brain (limbic system; totally lizard brain) that handle the fear response. want my job?
No, no, my stunning lack of edumication makes me perfect for the business world.
I might make a good case study though...at 38 years of age I literally just got diagnosed with Adult ADD. I suppose that would explain my lack of edumication as well...lol.
dang. i was just craving a sabbatical.
hah! friends of ours (jpx's and mine) literally wrote the self-help book on adult ADHD.
What's the book? I over-research everything anyway, so I might as well invest in something your friends wrote.
title = Mastering Your Adult ADHD: A Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Program Client Workbook.
it's available on amazon (and in barnes etc.) in paperback. should cost between 20 and 30 bucks. very practical and skills-based. it's good or i wouldn't recommend it, friends or no friends. make sure you get the client version not the therapist version, since i can't convince you to take over my job.
Thanks.
Yeah, Steve Safren is a brilliant and sweet guy, I would highly recommend his treatment manual.
But the therapist version has the answers at the back!
I watched that video and started to wonder if it wasn't for practicing eye contact with women with distracting cleavage.
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