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I had a weird dream last night, involving me developing a phobia against climbing ladders on fire engines and parasailing down from them. So I thought that maybe I should develop my posting from Thursday a little, to say that I am aware of the fact that lots of people really do suffer from phobias for things that seem quite irrational but are very real to them (as I mentioned a few days ago I'm uncomfortable with ferries, although not to the point where I won't go on them — still, I find it easy to sympathise with sufferes from phobias.) What I was getting at, as those will understand who follow the link and look at the phobia descriptions, was the way the company used the exact same description for all their phobia treatments only changing the name of the phobia, giving us descriptions like this one:

Defined as "a persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of the pope", each year, this common phobia causes millions of people needless distress.

To add insult to an already distressing condition, most fear of the pope therapies take months or years and sometimes even require the patient to be exposed repeatedly to the pope over and over again. We believe this is totally unnecessary, and can even make matters worse, now that fear of the pope can be eliminated with just 24 hours of commitment by the phobic individual.

Known by a number of names Papaphobia and Fear of The Pope being the most common, the problem often significantly impacts the quality of life. It can cause panic attacks and keep people apart from loved ones and business associates.

Change "the pope" to "sex", "parents-in-law", "the walloons" or even "the preference by a phobic for fearful situations" and you get the picture. I hope they treat their patients with greater respect that they treat the visitors to their web site, for they clearly don't credit us with the ability to think.

  posted by Linnéa Anglemark at 15:15 0 comments