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Feb. 19th, 2008 02:53 pmMy dad e-mailed me to ask how I enjoyed my 3-day weekend. I was like "...what? Three-day weekend? I distinctly remember going to class and Wind Ensemble yesterday," and he was like "What? It was President's Day!" Even he got yesterday off, and he's a lawyer. And he works all the time. Even Saturdays. Even Sundays, occasionally. NOT FAIR. This is one of the things that makes me really miss high school. We got off so many random days! We'd have like three three-day weekends in a row in February! And I hate February, so all those three-day weekends really helped. Stupid college.
I was studying for my abnormal psych test last night (which... I really should be doing now, too. Oh well) and it was talking about phobias and there was a list of "common" movie phobias, and on the bottom of the list it said "Dementors from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban." I was like "WHAT?" Because... WHAT? NOT A PHOBIA. Like, they really try to drill into you that a phobia is anxiety out of proportion to the situation, avoidance of feared setting/stimulus, and awareness of the irrationality of the anxiety. And ok, Harry does try to avoid dementors, but I don't think he believes it to be irrational, and it's not out of proportion to the situation BECAUSE THEY CAUSE HIM TO RELIVE THE DEATHS OF HIS MOTHER AND FATHER. The only reason he gets more anxious about it than anyone else is because he's lived through much worse tragedies! And whatever, it's not irrational, because the dementors totally end up siding with Voldemort and even in the third book they nearly suck out his soul. So WHATEVER Abnormal Psych book. You clearly need better examples.
...I actually just kind of find it incredibly amusing that they use that as an example. It really doesn't fit, in my opinion, but I also don't really care that much.
Ok, time to study, since this test is 20% of my grade and I can't drop it and I have my preceptor-led discussion group thing tonight (although that should be fun, since all we're doing is watching A Beautiful Mind, which I've never seen. We don't have to discuss it until the meeting Thursday night) so I need to start now and not put it off until later.
I was studying for my abnormal psych test last night (which... I really should be doing now, too. Oh well) and it was talking about phobias and there was a list of "common" movie phobias, and on the bottom of the list it said "Dementors from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban." I was like "WHAT?" Because... WHAT? NOT A PHOBIA. Like, they really try to drill into you that a phobia is anxiety out of proportion to the situation, avoidance of feared setting/stimulus, and awareness of the irrationality of the anxiety. And ok, Harry does try to avoid dementors, but I don't think he believes it to be irrational, and it's not out of proportion to the situation BECAUSE THEY CAUSE HIM TO RELIVE THE DEATHS OF HIS MOTHER AND FATHER. The only reason he gets more anxious about it than anyone else is because he's lived through much worse tragedies! And whatever, it's not irrational, because the dementors totally end up siding with Voldemort and even in the third book they nearly suck out his soul. So WHATEVER Abnormal Psych book. You clearly need better examples.
...I actually just kind of find it incredibly amusing that they use that as an example. It really doesn't fit, in my opinion, but I also don't really care that much.
Ok, time to study, since this test is 20% of my grade and I can't drop it and I have my preceptor-led discussion group thing tonight (although that should be fun, since all we're doing is watching A Beautiful Mind, which I've never seen. We don't have to discuss it until the meeting Thursday night) so I need to start now and not put it off until later.
