Strange phobias, part two
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Comments (2)Well, it didn't work , as usual..... C:\Users\Roberto\Pictures\2013-06-02\009.JPG this is the Moonshine...See MoreDo you have a phobia?
Comments (48)Ok, dear people. I totally understand phobias, having suffered for all of my younger years with arachnophobia and acrophobia. Thanks to my mother. Phobias are IRRATIONAL fears that can become debilitating, as some of you have expressed. My acrophobia had risen to a serious level while I was at college, making it stressful for me to walk up all of the stairs required to navigate some of those big, old buildings on campus. And the little house I was renting didn't have railings on the stairs to the basement! Believe me, I felt like a wreck most of the time because of this stupid fear. So I visited the student health department at the university to see if there might not be someone on staff that could help me. Lo and behold, one of the of the psychologists specialized in different techniques to treat people like me. He taught me self-hypnosis methods and visualization, which I still use today. He also practiced some de-sensitization techniques on me which were very interesting. In the beginning, I couldn't even close my eyes and PICTURE me walking over a narrow pathway without railings. I mean, just sitting there in his office, I would begin to panic. In about 6 visits, I felt reborn. Reborn. And much of the work was done on my own, by practicing some simple exercises. With what I learned with the de-sensitization methods, I was able to overcome on my own (for the most part) my terrible arachnophobia....and a good thing, since I soon moved to semi-tropical SC, where the spiders seemed to come only in XX and XXX sizes, lol. So, what I'm saying is: you don't need to let your life be encumbered by an irrational fear. They can be 'cured' in an incredibly short time....See MoreCooking Phobias
Comments (64)bbstx, it's very funny that they show a typical meat thermometer in that article so that you can clearly see why that calibration method won't work for a typical meat thermometer. The marked thermometer range is 140 to 190 degrees. It is typically at the edge of its swing at a temperature above room temperature so putting it in a glass of ice water doesn't move it and says nothing about its accuracy. One could put it in boiling water and at least check that that moves it past 190, but unless it is more than 20 degrees off, it won't tell you much. About the only way you could calibrate a meat thermometer like that (and most of the non digital ones are like it) is to have another wider range thermometer that you've calibrated with the boiling / freezing method, then put both of them in water that that is in its temperature range and comparing the results. (The boiling and freezing test also assumes that the thermometer is reasonably linear in its measurement range.) I haven't had good luck with that type of meat thermometer. Something goes wrong with the spring over time and it stops measuring at all well. I've sometimes put two in and they measure totally differently. We finally got the digital ChefAlarm thermometer from TheroWorks (the same company that makes the Thermopen instant read thermometers). Sometimes placement is a challenge - is it deep enough yet not too close to a bone? This post was edited by cloud_swift on Mon, Dec 22, 14 at 19:53...See MoreDo you have a phobia?
Comments (75)Bears due to encountering a problem bear on my first backpacking trip many years ago. I still go but sleeping alone at a campsite can sometimes be nervy. My little dog helps; I figure if he's not barking, nothing is out there. :-) I didn't use to think of sharks but probably would now if I still swam in the ocean. And rip currents. Not really heights. Unless I'm standing on an unstable surface that might give way and cause me to slide toward a precipice, or just a painful bouncy slide. (Loose slate or shale) Once it was snow. Probably just abundance of caution though, not paranoia. Driving on snow didn't used to bother me but after sliding back down a steep hill that I didn't make up with four locked wheels doing a 180 into the ditch, I've been known to sit at the top/bottom of a hill trying to work up the nerve to start down/up. No snow covered black icy hills here though. :-)...See MoreLynnNM
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