On 2004-12-24 09:14:00, Anonymous wrote:
I can also only speculate what would lead a doctor to be interested in both Straight -- which caused intense anxiety in children -- and selective mutism -- which is caused by anxiety .
Oh, you'll just love this one, then.
Bobby DuPont (can anyone definitely confirm or disprove his kinship w/
the DuPonts?)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline ... upont.html"The other part of my professional life is drug abuse. And that's very interesting, because drug abuse is really a deficiency of fear. The striking thing about drug abusers is that in the face of really dreadful things happening down the road, they persist in a behavior, in spite of it. So I find on one hand, in my life with anxiety disorders, I'm constantly working with people to say, "Stay in the present and disregard your fears." And in my world in the drug abuse, I'm constantly saying to people, "Think ahead. Where is it going? Be more fearful." So it's pretty clear to me that having too little fear is a different kind of problem, but a desperately serious problem also."
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"
-- Quentin Crisp
