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Two genuine questions (potential TW?): - What's your opinion of doing a stint as a snake handler at a zoo or wildlife park? I believe there are smaller snakes
by exikyut 4y ago
Two genuine questions (potential TW?):
- What's your opinion of doing a stint as a snake handler at a zoo or wildlife park? I believe there are smaller snakes that tend to be a bit bitey but don't hurt very much and are completely non-venomous, and it's apparently part of the job to get used to them quickly (ie, it's the norm to rapidly reach the point of going "ok this isn't the end of the world" - basically the pins-and-needles equivalent of sticking one's arm in a tank full of daddy-long-legs spiders).
- What would you think of having designated "see a snake" days or times of day, where you reroute your adblocker to load pictures of snakes in ad frames at specific times? Going for an exposure therapy vibe, but where you control the parameters, and you start off very easy (eg, one specific day of week, time window of 1 minute, you know exactly when it'll happen to begin with lol).
Asking entirely out of "what happens to the black box if we push this button", coming from someone who has annoying random triggers that I'm trying to get to the bottom of too.
- shanebellone 4y agoThis approach worked for me. I had an irrational fear of eating out after getting blown up in a dining facility in Afghanistan. It took me a couple years of uncomfortable meals to finally realize I could eat without people dying. The mind is a weird thing.
- jvanderbot 4y agoWow, the world is sometimes a very a dark place. I'm sorry you had to go through that.
- melx 4y agoThis might work... however I can't see myself doing these things, for reasons that I have no time nor intention. Where I live (UK) the snakes are rare things in the wild, so I really have no desire to fight my fear of them. Simply put, they don't exist in my day-to-day living and that's good. Except when I go to read random post about programming language...