A captive audience. Like the priest in the box.
A captive audience. Like the priest in the box.
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This is actually a real phenomenon. They tested this in several studies, and looking at another person, like when you're sitting across a table, creates more psychosocial cues for confrontation. You can try it with your partner of choice: cuddle with one of you spooning the other, and talk about something mildly upsetting or embarassing to you, then repeat while holding hands and sitting across a table directly looking at each other.
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I think that's why therapy over gaming is helping.
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It is almost as if this whole "face-to-face" thing that was brought up so much in the online meeting debate when companies insisted on video calls isn't always as universally helpful as some people think. Almost as if human interactions are complex rather than simplistic.
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That explains why I can’t look at therapists mid session
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"the priest in the box" makes it sound more like a sadistic experiment of Schrödinger's
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Its like a jack in the box, but more molesty
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Or a really underwhelming alternate ending to "Se7en"
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Guess the Dashboard confessional's knew what they were on about
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I was gonna say, is this a whole community of people who have never heard of Dashboard Confessional?
Were they actually a niche band and I just assumed they were mainstream?
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This is called triangulation! It's when the focus is removed from the hard or vulnerable conversation, so it's easier to have it.
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That makes sense. A lot of difficult conversations have been had in bed, while looking at the ceiling or cuddling or in the dark altogether.
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As long as you can hear fine without lip reading
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Oh man, just wait until you find out about taxicab confessional https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0114639/
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