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Old 27-06-2012, 06:08 PM
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OMG, how dismal for IIS that this became necessary. Well done John.

Chuck,

First a disclaimer, I'm no psychologist, but I've done a bit of reading for family reasons. My general impressions are :

- if you can go outside and look up into the night sky nowadays, you probably don't have agoraphobia badly anymore, so take heart. The idea is to stop it getting a grip on you again

- you have mentioned the feeling of falling into black space when looking down the EP? I have felt this, not greatly, but a tweak

- it seems that such feelings can be treated by carefully managed exposure to that which causes anxiety, so you might like to try such a program. It is called "cognitive behavioural therapy", and this means it aims at changing your way of thinking about what you see

- for instance, you would look at a defocussed image, and instead of thinking "horrible object swooping at you", you would eventually think "reach for focus knob"

- then of course there are drugs, but I'd hazard a guess that would be overkill for you

- I also saw that this sort of therapy can be done on the Net, long-distance, so it needn't impose a straitjacket on you as you would be in control of the program

Now after this I'm out of my depth, but if I can suggest a direction or two, that's the aim.

Cheers
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