DENICE'S PROGRAM FOR CAUSING ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION
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This is awesome! I can't remember laughing so hard after reading some of the posts.
So here's my two cents (forgive me if I repeat something - I haven't been through all 16 pages yet...)
1) Do all of your personal banking on a cell phone in a public place. Be sure to loudly use your name, account number, and social security number as many times as possible.
2) Leave the coffee pot on when you go to work. How else will you know that if the auto-off feature works?
3) When feeling dizzy from panicking, start spinning around in circles. If you still feel dizzy, then spin the other way. It has to be one of the two!
4) While out driving, stop off at as many banks as possible and use the drive-though window. Send notes through the pneumatic tubes looking for tellers willing to talk. Make a map of the "safe banks" for your next drive.
5) When panicking at the grocery store, go to the paper towel aisle and make a fort with the packages of paper towels and climb inside. If an employees asks what you are doing, tell them to go away, you are are in your phobic nest.
6) Make a T-shirt that says you have panic attacks, has your name, has the phone numbers of all your safe people, and has instructions "in case of emergency". Wear this shirt whenever you go outside.
So here's my two cents (forgive me if I repeat something - I haven't been through all 16 pages yet...)
1) Do all of your personal banking on a cell phone in a public place. Be sure to loudly use your name, account number, and social security number as many times as possible.
2) Leave the coffee pot on when you go to work. How else will you know that if the auto-off feature works?
3) When feeling dizzy from panicking, start spinning around in circles. If you still feel dizzy, then spin the other way. It has to be one of the two!
4) While out driving, stop off at as many banks as possible and use the drive-though window. Send notes through the pneumatic tubes looking for tellers willing to talk. Make a map of the "safe banks" for your next drive.
5) When panicking at the grocery store, go to the paper towel aisle and make a fort with the packages of paper towels and climb inside. If an employees asks what you are doing, tell them to go away, you are are in your phobic nest.
6) Make a T-shirt that says you have panic attacks, has your name, has the phone numbers of all your safe people, and has instructions "in case of emergency". Wear this shirt whenever you go outside.
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Thanks, Russ. I've got to be honest though. I originally heard the phrase "phobic nest" in a class I took years ago for agoraphobics. I thought the mental image of a phobic nest was so funny that it always stuck with me. I pictured myself curled up in fetal position on something soft - might as well be paper towels!
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