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Armchair Pyschologist
The Short Blah: About the Armchair Psychologist
23 November 1999

What is this page for? What does it mean to be nutty as a fruitcake and flipped out to the point of idiocy? I am nothing but an obsessive-compulsive, co-dependent, paranoid-delusional, hyphocondric, schizophrenic, homicidal gun-weilding lunatic maniac going on random rampages of preposterous unmitigated violence, as unrepentant as they come.

I'm no shrink. I have taken a few psychology subjects in university and read my share of books on psychology, pop or otherwise, yet I am still as unqualified as can be. I write this page for myself, since I can't afford a shrink--most of the time I wish I could talk to a real shrink for hours to an end, but that is impossible, so I just talk to myself. And webpage-building is therapeutic. Finances aside, my first session would most likely go like this:

Claire's first session with Dr. Proctor, licensed shrink:
Claire: Doctor, you must help me. I'm under a LOT of stress, I keep losing my temper with people.
Shrink: Tell me about your problem.
Claire: I JUST DID, DIDN'T I, YOU STUPID LOUSY BASTARD!!!

Not very invigorating, huh. Seriously speaking, if you strip off the smart-assiness of yours truly you will find, well, you will find, a, uh... well, you won't find anything much, but then this whole thing is meant to be funny, so I hope you'll find it funny, otherwise I shall hang myself up the nearest fig tree (doncha worry, the nearst fig tree is in Kefar-Sava, Israel). Just kidding, of course. I mean about the hanging, not the fig tree. At any rate, if you have nothing better to do with your time, then please sit back and let yourself be entertained by me and the voices in my head.

Here we will deal with behavioral cognitive social transpersonal child forensic sports music experimental industrial evolutionary health critical narrative clinical psychology, all from an incompetent layperson's point of view. Each month a new topic will be featured, and the format will be: (1) an overview of the whole issue; (2) observations, confessions, and reflections based on personal experience; (3) unqualified and unsolicited advice, when I feel like giving some; and (4) links to self-proclaimed qualified advisers.

PS. Don't get me wrong, I am not making fun of psychology or psychiatry per se. In fact, I have always wanted to become a shrink myself, but I knew that I will get hopelessly entangled in my patients' lives and become too involved to provide any helpful, objective therapy, so I thought I should become a lawyer instead. In the end, I decided to take up home economics major in embroidery and minor in quilting.

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Acknowledgement: Analysing doctor animated GIF courtesy of The Animation Factory.