Word: phobias
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...stage and announcing casually that he is going to talk about his recent life. His preoccupation has been his impending oral exam in English, which would test all of his knowledge about literature. The strain of this make-or-break test induced constant nausea and what he calls "social phobia," a fear of performing in social situations. Things were only made worse by roommate Oswald, an anti-social computer programmer with a bad habit of urinating in a glass jar in various parts of the apartment. Oswald is both comic relief and a warning of what Marler could turn into...
...technical name for my cure is flooding, a technique usually reserved for treating phobias. In the early '70s, London researchers reported a novel treatment for the obsessive-compulsive washing that comes from a pathological fear of dirt: they confined a washer to a hospital room and arranged for the room to be increasingly soiled. As the grime got thicker, the patient's anxiety level would rise and rise-the doctors had turned off the water taps-until the agony was no longer bearable. At which point, no, the doctors did not take the patient out of the room-they were...
Unfortunately, that's often not the message you get from the three Republican musketeers. Especially for the xenophobic Helms, Bosnia is an opportunity to attack the idea of international organizations, of which he has a distinct phobia (witness his hysterics over the World Trade Organization...
Above all VanAmburg cautions students to usemoderation in interpreting the numbers HDSprovides. "Generally I think the best idea is touse the information, but don't radically changeyour eating habit because of a severe phobia ofthe four grams of fat in the lasagna," she says...
...hardwired the brain is. How far and at what stage can the brain's extraordinary flexibility be pushed? Several studies suggest that the junior high years are key. Girls show the same aptitudes for math as boys until about the seventh grade, when more and more girls develop math phobia. Coincidentally, that is the age at which boys start to shine and catch up to girls in reading...