Rejection Therapy (2011)
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Rejection Therapy (2011)
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#2I wonder how long after the exercise the “affordance” effect lasted.
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#3I think about Rejection Therapy [0] a lot. Being impervious to rejection has to be some sort of superpower.
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#4Using strangers as unwitting tools in your own psychological therapy without their consent seems super sketchy to me.
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#5Using strangers as unwitting tools in your own psychological therapy without their consent seems super sketchy to me.
You're just not thinking rationally enough.
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#6afaik this is actually called "Exposure Therapy" the author is just being more specific about what it is they're being exposed to.
https://www.apa.org/ptsd-guideline/patients-and-families/exp...
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#7Using strangers as unwitting tools in your own psychological therapy without their consent seems super sketchy to me.
My psychologist suggested I partake in 1 act of kindness every day, doesn't matter if in favor of a loved one or a stranger. This was to help me deal with some mental problems I had.
Following this advice in multiple occasions I actively helped people on the streets, be it by helping them put the groceries in their cars or by taking something that fell off their pockets.
I would say this helped me immensely, would you find it super sketchy?
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#8I'm curious if this was actually done under the guidance of a mental health professional, or if it was more of an informal team-building type of thing. I say that because I can see this backfiring under some circumstances. Sort of like how drinking removes a lot of your inhibitions, but not the consequences that created those inhibitions in the first place.
I can see getting into the groove of it and then doing a whole lot of things that you wouldn't normally do, and then going home that night and lying awake thinking to yourself "WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST DO?!!"
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#9Using strangers as unwitting tools in your own psychological therapy without their consent seems super sketchy to me.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2538/
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#10Using strangers as unwitting tools in your own psychological therapy without their consent seems super sketchy to me.
Thank you for your comment. I came here to say roughly the same thing.
Yes, in a way we are always using others as means to an end. But to make this interpretation true, I have to really push the boundaries of what I mean by using others, by mean, and by end.
However, let us try to think this from a different perspective. How about what others in this _experiment_ felt? How would you feel if someone came out of nowhere and asked you to give them this or that when you cannot even fathom why they are doing it?
To me, this so-called therapy may work for the people exposing themselves in order to get exposed to negative reactions. But this is just a very self-centered way of treating other people as cardboard cutouts, not as real persons. They are merely background features like trees, cars or streetlights.
In the end, maybe you get a kick out of getting out of your comfort zone. But you're also training yourself to be indifferent to the feelings of others. If that's the trade-off of this _therapy_, no thank you.