434: The One-Minute Drill; Memory Rescripting; and More!

David, Matt, and Rhonda Answer Your Questions!

What's the One-Minute Drill work? How does it work?

What's Memory Rescripting? How does it work?

How can I endure boring and irrelevant college work?

1. Aaron asks: How do you do the One Minute Drill?
2. Aaron asks how and why Memory Rescripting helped a college student overcome her fears of public transportation (e.g. agoraphobia).
3. Gray asks: How can I endure having to do boring work in college and beyond?

Two questions from Aaron W. C. who is a Licensed Master Social Worker in Idaho, and said, “I look forward to the podcast.”

1. Hi Dr. Burns, Can you share how you do the one-minute drill? In When Panic Attacks, you only mentioned the name but not how it works.

Thank you,

Aaron W. California

David’s reply

We'll explain and demonstrate it on the podcast. It's a partially helpful tool for troubled couples who argue and fail to listen.

2. Hi Dr. Burns, I completed rereading When Panic Attacks yesterday night. I have a question about one of the case examples you mentioned. In the book, you mention a patient that has a phobia of taking public transportation. She did the reimagination exercise of picturing herself castrating the men that harmed her roommate and branded the man that hurt her as a child.

If remember right, the book does not link using the "reimagination exercise" to overcoming her fear of taking public transportation. How did the reimagination exercise help her overcome the fear of taking public transportation?

I have reread the book two times this year!

Thank you,

Aaron W. California---LMSW (Idaho)

David’s reply

I am happy to include your question on an upcoming Feeling Good Podcast. Can I use your first name? Thanks!

I can answer two of your questions, and can even demonstrate the one-minute drill, and discuss its uses and limitations.

Best, david

3. Gray asks about feeling better about post-secondary education

Hi David,

I struggle with intense anger, frustration, and depression while doing college coursework, with recurring thoughts like, “This is pointless,” “This work is for nobody, ” "I'm just working to work," "I'm being hazed," and “I profoundly don’t care!”

I’m interested in law school because I’d love being a lawyer, but I worry that I won’t be mentally healthy in that environment. Many lawyers say 80+% of law school is irrelevant and doesn’t adequately prepare you to practice law or even to pass the Bar, so I expect similar frustrations would resurface.

I’ve looked into this very carefully and I’m convinced that the basic substance of my thoughts has bulletproof empirical grounding (outside of STEM, for sure). How could I manage these distortions when I’m in the midst of law school homework?

P.S. I’m quite hostile to appeals about how I would actually learn important things in class or about developing resilience for its own sake, so I’d prefer to avoid that line of thinking unless it's really important.

Thank you,

Gray

David’s reply

Can you give me an example of one of your negative thoughts. They always contain some truth, by the way. Perhaps you’re trapped in a Hidden Should Statement.

Are you wanting to feel happy about having to do