Ranting v. 2.0

[busa-boy33]

I believe in tough love. Make them address their fears head on.. for example..
I watched a news clip once of a woman who was deathly afraid of feathers.

You could not come within 10' of her with any kind of feather. She had some mental disorder and focused it all on the feather..

well.. her doctor had her sit down and close her eyes.. he then proceeded to give her random objects to hold for a second or two then he'd give her another.

when she opened her eyes at the end of the first session he informed her she had touched a feather 3 times in the midst of the random objects.

At first this caused her to cry but over repeated treatments she realized that the feather was no more threatening then anything else.

The next part was for her to open her eyes and see the random objects give to her to touch.. and in the exact same order he gave her the feather..

after 35 yrs she could hold a feather without crying or screaming...

effective tough love.

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[frostbitevinnie]

A good whack upside the head is pretty effective as well.

[omegajim]

this reminds me of a story I heard once, whether or not it's true, who knows.

So this guy says "I can't get to sleep, every time I go to bed I think there's something under the bed. Then I try to go to sleep under the bed, then I think there's something on the bed. To and fro all night."

The doc says "after several years of therapy, we might get somewhere."

The guy's uncle says "cut the legs off the bed."

[chiddly]

I work with a guy whose wife has an unusual fear of metal. She doesn't touch pennies, she cringes when she has to touch anything metal. She doesn't like for her kids to touch metal. Goofy, huh?

FWIW, she's also kind of condescending. Ironic.

That's very odd.

The guy should get her a big ole Steely Dan

[omegajim]

or a throne made out of COPPER.

[tricker]

live my rant thread.... LIVE!!!!!!!

[omegajim]

"Do you expect me to talk"

"No, Mr. Bond I expect you to DIE."

oh, knee jerk reaction to "live."

as spoken by an old German. From that war we fought.

[JmalB]

Uh... whut?

[amvince]

I'm %%%%ing tired.

[tricker]

my rant? socks... why the hell did i buy like 4 different brands of socks.. its beyond me. I hate sorting those damn things. I look and think i find a match? Nope denied!! I feel like a bafoon when they don't match. Hey your going to work but wait.. your socks don't match? Idiot. I'd rather stab myself with a plastic spork than sort socks.

[amvince]

my rant? socks... why the hell did i buy like 4 different brands of socks.. its beyond me. I hate sorting those damn things. I look and think i find a match? Nope denied!! I feel like a bafoon when they don't match. Hey your going to work but wait.. your socks don't match? Idiot. I'd rather stab myself with a plastic spork than sort socks.

Socks are Gods way of keeping you in line. I think that is in the Bilbe somewhere.

[tricker]

Socks are Gods way of keeping you in line. I think that is in the Bilbe somewhere.

now the feeling of new socks... you can't beat that easily

[omegajim]

Which is why, the last time dress socks were on sale, I bought 12 dozen pair.

That's 144 pairs of socks for yous not good with math.

[tricker]

a guy that my sister works with claimed that 9x6 is 36.... and yes he has a college degree

[omegajim]

in geology!