Saturday, March 19, 2005

Vera plays Dr. Freud (graphic content warning)

I have a theory that there is no human-induced psychological trauma that couldn't be healed by capturing said human and scraping his or her eyes out with a fork.

This is not a threat towards anyone - it's just a thought that came to me while I was pondering why some school incidents caused me some long-term trauma and some didn't.

Since most countries' laws take a dim view on scraping people's eyes out with a fork (and if your country's laws don't then you have problems that are more pressing than any psychological trauma you might have), Dr. Vera Playing-Freud advices trying harsh language and other more conventional forms of therapy before resorting to extreme violence.

I should probably also warn everyone trying this form of self-therapy that sometimes it has unintended embarassing consequences, such as totally strange women greeting you at a conference in another country 16 years later with "Hi! You were that girl who punched our teacher in the nose, right?"

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