In order to get someone to see the light, wake up and smell the coffee, to recognize the truth, etc..... shocking them into the realization, is this a workable way, an effective way of getting results? does it really work?
2007-02-14 20:49:33 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Like electro-shock therapy?? I heard they call it E.C.T. now. My friend and I were just talking about it 2 days ago. Good question, I am highly skeptical about that too.
2007-02-14 20:52:23 · answer #1 · answered by 88keys 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you mean..emotional shock More like the "boing"
I should have had a V8!!
My friend always thot I was pretty unmovable
but mostly she just couldnt shock me...but she liked to keep trying to make me react.
One day she hollered across the parking lot,
Hey Suz,...We have batteries now! I took the ones outta my vibrator!! I was embarrassed I guess but mostly because her Dad was RIGHT behind her lol....I guess that was an effective way of getting results...just not from me!
If you mean EST yes my mom had it in the 60s.
She said it made her feel better and if it hurt she didnt remember it.
2007-02-15 05:18:24 · answer #2 · answered by to tell ya the truth........... 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For some it might. The government here in Australia try it all the time. We get ads showing road deaths to make us slow down. We get cigarette packets with pictures of rotten lungs to make us quit. We get little Johnny Howard to make us never vote again......But seriously, in some instances it may work, but I think the person has to already know the facts anyway.
I tried shock tactics on my ex, because he's a druggo and a drunk, and is destroying his kids little hearts by being so inconsistant with seeing them regularly, but some people are really good at lying to themselves and doing the whole "that'll never happen to me" delusion. And even when it does actually happen to them, the thing you're warning them of, they manage to shrug it off. I told my ex he'd end up getting raided for his drugs, and made him think about what would happen if he was, and how it would affect his kids. He ignored it. When he was raided, he shrugged it off, and all it did was teach him to keep his stuff at someone else's place!
Some people just don't want to know, and if there's one thing I've learned, it's that you cannot change those who don't want to change. You just have to accept that, as hard as it is for you to watch, that's who they are and how they choose to live. All you can do is choose whether you remain close to them, and whether you will allow their choices to have a bad effect on your life.
Good luck!
2007-02-15 06:53:59 · answer #3 · answered by CheeseFest 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, yes, especially if you have a portable telephone generator and clips to attach to the genitalia, nipples, or lips and tongue.
Then, there's always the pliers on the fingernails routine if the usual APA DSM-IV-TR methods don't work.
Or force them to starve until they drive 18 wheelers for a living.
For exotic methods, contact the KGB or Al-Quiada.
There is always the Red Chinese Water Torture, or just tape their eyelids open and force them to watch the O'Reilly Factor and Nancy Grace for hours until they "Smell the coffee."
Or ask Fat F***, the "Vaughn Factor," my personal torturer and expert sadist.
2007-02-15 04:58:22 · answer #4 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Depends on what concept you are trying to convey.
i.e., "Don't stick a bobby pin into an electrical outlet."
That "shock" would definitely leave a lasting impression regarding that warning.
2007-02-15 04:53:23 · answer #5 · answered by scruffycat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Electric shock? No way! ;D
Try to give the word "shock" another meaning. ;) (more approachable - affective shock, emotional shock, "perplexity") ;) It could work.
2007-02-15 05:05:19 · answer #6 · answered by M.C 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
not advisable
2007-02-15 04:59:38 · answer #7 · answered by manjunath s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋