Word: phobias
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...SPECIFIC PHOBIA...
...THERAPY When the brain sets anxiety alarms ringing, our first inclination is to find the off switch. Behavioral scientists take the opposite approach. They want you to get so accustomed to the noise that you don't hear it anymore. The standard behavioral treatment for such anxiety conditions as phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and panic disorder is to expose patients to a tiny bit of the very thing that causes them anxiety, ratcheting up the exposure over a number of sessions until the brain habituates to the fear. A patient suffering from a blood phobia, for example, might first...
...only up to a point. If you’re “afraid of anal sex,” as the latest Contact poster blares, and need someone to talk you out of that silly phobia, than Harvard is the place for you. If you want to learn about French cinema or the Russian avant-garde, attend Taiwanese cultural festivals and watch Filipino dances, then come aboard, Harvard can help. If your idea of diversity is a freshman class, like mine, where roughly five hundred students hailed from either Massachusetts or New York, than this University is as diverse...
...ridiculous to only be able to express it in a passive way. But it fits nicely in this discussion. Cooking is empowering. Maybe not for everyone, but definitely for me. Kitchens were scary, are still sort of scary if I’m alone. I have a food phobia nurtured by a childhood, adolescence, teenagehood and late-teenagehood or whatever it is that I’m in now all filled with bouts of obsessive-compulsive overeating...
...frightening?is experience. Debbie Seaman, who beat her own fear of flying at the Qantas clinic in Sydney and went on to write The Fearless Flier's Handbook, says: "Most of all, if we don't 'get back on the horse,' we're helping the fear take over. A phobia erodes self-esteem in other areas of life and spreads like a cancer." She advises phobic flyers to desensitize themselves: arrive at the airport early to watch planes take off and land. On boarding, alert the crew or even ask to speak to the pilot. The experience of the cabin...