Thanks, E. BTW, there was a story in today's New York Times about a novel experiment on people with asthma and people with RA. The patients wrote about something that really bothered them, their worst experience, for twenty minutes a day for three days. The ones who did, had a significant improvement over the ones who just wrote about anything (controls). The hypothesis is that by writing about things that bother you, you get better control over it than just by ruminating. This is not significantly different from the hypothesis of Norman Cousins, in "Anatomy of a Disease," who advocated checking into a hotel room with comic movie tapes, masseuses, and delicious food, and not leaving until you were better. Similarly, Dr. William Glasser, in "Choice Theory," hypothesizes that RA is caused by a feeling of global helplessness, frequently caused by frustration in a close relationship, that causes one to feel so overwhelmed that the body interprets itself as being under attack, and paradoxically, attacks itself.
I guess it looks as if you guys are therapeutic, good thing you can't charge me as much as my doctors do.
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