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...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...
Counselors around the world run courses to help people cope with the fear of flying?which affects some 20-25% of passengers. "A classic symptom of a phobia is avoidance," says Peter Hughes, a British Airways pilot with 34 years' experience who runs programs for flying phobics in Britain. "People are simply staying on the ground. They don't feel ready to address their fears." In Asia that kind of avoidance is particularly strong. "It's the whole psychology of loss of face," says Hughes, "never admitting to having a fear, never mentioning it." This may be one reason...
Help may be on the way to Asia. Hughes hopes to offer courses in Hong Kong soon, while the Valk Foundation, a phobia-research institute in the Netherlands, is considering running courses in Japan. In the meantime, here are some tips for fearful flyers in Asia...
...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...