dtrent

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   by dtrent 5y ago

   No. I'm saying you shouldn't deceptively use people for your personal benefit by interrupting whatever they're doing with a pretextual request as a form of therapy for yourself. I hear you--I dealt with social anxiety severel
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   by dtrent 5y ago

   Would it or does it? In fairness, I used to write like this too. If the theory endorses selfish deceptions then its not worth adherence. If it doesn't endorse them, then it doesn't support the practice in the article, and its not
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   by dtrent 5y ago

   You didn't have to read or respond to my comment. If you're suggesting that commenting on an article is equivalent to approaching a stranger in-person with a pretextual request calculated for your own therapeutic benefit... well i
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   by dtrent 5y ago

   maybe but making the decision for someone else of whether, when, and how their anxieties should be challenged is, again, kind of shitty
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   by dtrent 5y ago

   It wouldn't pass an IRB. This sort of thing is fundamentally selfish. At best de minimis but you can imagine how annoying public life would get if tacitly recruiting strangers as unpaid therapists was at all common.
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   by dtrent 5y ago

   Asking strangers for things subjects them to anxiety too. Doing it as a form of free therapy is kind of shitty.
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   by dtrent 5y ago

   Asking people for things subjects them to anxiety too. Doing it as a form of free therapy is kind of shitty.